[CentOS] C6 firefox esr h.264 support on youtube

Fri Sep 11 13:18:50 UTC 2015
John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:

> 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.

All we did was rebuild the CentOS 6 packages tweaking the SPEC so that it was
configured with:

--enable-gstreamer=0.10

h264 then worked once you'd got the appropriate gstreamer plugins installed.

Also google-chrome on EL6 does h264.

jh