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

Sat Sep 12 17:45:44 UTC 2015
Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:18 AM, 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.
>
> Also google-chrome on EL6 does h264.


Thanks for that tip about building it with that tweak. I will try it. BTW
how are you running google-chrome on EL6?