-----Original Message----- From: John Hodrien [mailto:J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:39 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] C6 firefox esr h.264 support on youtube
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
does anyone running C6 have h.264 check box on www.youtube.com/html5 ?
if yes, can you please post the output of
My understanding, which may be incorrect, was that the firefox in EL6 wasn't built with gstreamer support, so adding that library isn't sufficient.
jh
"You always need native OS support to be able to play media files with the HTML5 media player" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1068031#answer-743907
I found this because I was looking for a (legal in the US) way to look at h264 streams from local net video encoders on EL6, without having to resort to expensive decoder software which I can't get anytime soon. Initially I thought that I might get Firefox to do it for me with the openh264 plugin, but then I found the above link. I am currently looking at how possible/painful it is to get the gstreamer openh264 plugin [1] built on EL6 (to go with the existing 0.10 gstreamer), such that I can use openh264 [2][3], which if I understand it would allow me to have a legal and working viewer (sans sound, which I don't need anyway). It would be nice (from a functional point of view) if Red Hat could get us an audio codec for h264 licensed in a similar way.
If anyone has clues on how to build and add just a portion of gst-plugins-bad into the existing EL OS set of gstreamer plugins, please share (even URL pointers).
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/ext/openh264 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264 [3] http://www.openh264.org/
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