> -----Original Message----- > From: John Hodrien [mailto:J.H.Hodrien at 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/ Even when this disclaimer is not here: I am not a contracting officer. I do not have authority to make or modify the terms of any contract.