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

Fri Sep 11 12:43:47 UTC 2015
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

John Hodrien wrote:
> 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.

I believe the EL6 build of firefox sets media.gstreamer.enabled to 
'false' (see about:config)

Try setting that to 'true'

Although that appears to stop the libtotem plugins from working ?

James Pearson