-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-04-26 10:49, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > When I read a blog in Firefox 31.6.0, there are often You Tube film > clips embedded in it. When I attempt to view these, I am getting, > more and more frequently, the error message (from You Tube): > > "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video > formats available. Click <here> to visit our frequently asked > questions about HTML5 video." > > Fair enough. The connection between the first and second sentences > is a bit vague, but I surmise from them that the video is available > in HTML5 format (whatever that is) and the link will instruct me on > setting it up. > > Not a bit of it! That link, <https://www.youtube.com/html5>, says > this: > > "Many YouTube videos will play using HTML5 in supported browsers. > You can request that the HTML5 player be used if your browser > doesn't use it by default." > > "If you encounter any problems, right-click on the player and > choose "report playback issue", or let us know on the user support > forums. Your feedback will help us continue to improve the > player." > > , without telling me _how_ I can "request that the HTML5 player be > used". Exactly what "the player" is that I should "right-click on" > remains obscure. > > I feel that I'm missing some crucial piece of information which is > obvious to everybody else. I'd like to view these video clips. > Any help people can offer me would be gratefully received. > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox > 31.6.0: > > USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > -custom-optimization -debug -gstreamer -hardened (-pgo) > -pulseaudio (-selinux) -system-cairo -system-icu -system-jpeg > -system-libvpx -system-sqlite {-test} -wifi" > > Thanks! >
One of the ways to get H.264 video to work is to enable USE=gstreamer on Firefox, which will allow Firefox to use any plugin that GStreamer 1.x supports. If you then also set USE=ffmpeg on gst-plugins-meta, you will have GStreamer supporting any codec that ffmpeg or libav (whichever you have installed) supports. If you set USE=x264 on gst-plugins-meta, you will get H.264 support via libx264 as well. One of those options should get you support for viewing H.264 videos on Firefox. - -- Jonathan Callen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVPZYGAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mg0msP/31EZ4PwXWSXZGozS0oRCf/5 /MqyfMqcDRUm2FiZL5elcwsKYkUIrCnbm0aMzO4zYu5Yx9dvGI/t3nA/V0zAYBYL Y6vXTUkhE3V7WyrZrtm6z/+jyaHcNZPYwlyNmzu3stfAn2xHF7DfQl7+RdeeRHhh VucLKC5bDSWblAYzrkvE76mj3gLpuAlsG6s1kQYXf3c0D4hU86PBV0b4uciDf4xk 27y3qL390TIrfYzCyDRNWrTsVJ+zod4RYfI7LHwBx1CpOtu9m+40+k9NpaeBLVUA kuotRDs/B301xowUnWJybwd7Uu1mWAyBSBsmqNKUvbEwuimLxF++dqUPmltrdyzJ Mv/5FLB0o96OVWTRDjouhXLz0pvmvHtS0RLvdnvek55jYSYNMPWNP7t/peP2tx6o GGvikRz2plAYWqayovsyr6YDRfMlLl06MLDJd+3gA4FTho/3oa11xU/eIlyGzzAp eBp9ulxLcRo8T5rG2iWm+JDZ4pomHg3EOjG/rCICM9iUbkxUCitCyCDgTuYIlYpg ZRF0pMy85MX68JOlSXJS+SCdlgXblgRg29PbLUuFfGtZPmQmSQNs7LP1vyssf/8f cIC+afiWLLhb6/wE73lGkuc8XLBAT2h/DgX0njGAlhD/Rmax8PznZ1WlKogrxAeJ rMPa4fvk+GoFHMf6Uqah =CFrl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
