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

wwp subscript at free.fr
Tue Sep 15 14:35:18 UTC 2015


Hello John,


On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:18:50 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the tip!

I retrieved CentOS 6.7's firefox-38.2.1-1.el6.x86_64 srpm and rebuilt
it with the --enable-gstreamer=0.10 changes in .spec file, rebuilt on
my CentOS 6.5 system, and it works like a charm (htm5test.org and
youtube detect the h264 support etc.).


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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