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

[Rob Kampen]

On 09/16/2015 02:35 AM, wwp wrote:
> 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.).
>
seems like a candidate for centosplus or extras ....
> Regards,
>
>
>
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