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 ofMy understanding, which may be incorrect, was that the firefox in EL6 wasn't built with gstreamer support, so adding that library isn't sufficient. jh
Works fine for me. $ rpm -qa | grep -i 'gst\|libva' gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.23-3.el6.x86_64 libva-1.0.15-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-3.el6_5.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.29-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.16-1.1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.18-4.el6.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-28.el6_5.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 ________________________________________ From: centos-bounces at centos.org [centos-bounces at centos.org] on behalf of John Hodrien [J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:38 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] C6 firefox esr h.264 support on youtube 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 ofMy understanding, which may be incorrect, was that the firefox in EL6 wasn't built with gstreamer support, so adding that library isn't sufficient. jh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
2015-Sep-11 12:26 UTC
[CentOS] C6 firefox esr h.264 support on youtube
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Hodrien [mailto:J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:39 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] C6 firefox esr h.264 support on youtube > > 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. > > jh"You always need native OS support to be able to play media files with the HTML5 media player" https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1068031#answer-743907 I found this because I was looking for a (legal in the US) way to look at h264 streams from local net video encoders on EL6, without having to resort to expensive decoder software which I can't get anytime soon. Initially I thought that I might get Firefox to do it for me with the openh264 plugin, but then I found the above link. I am currently looking at how possible/painful it is to get the gstreamer openh264 plugin [1] built on EL6 (to go with the existing 0.10 gstreamer), such that I can use openh264 [2][3], which if I understand it would allow me to have a legal and working viewer (sans sound, which I don't need anyway). It would be nice (from a functional point of view) if Red Hat could get us an audio codec for h264 licensed in a similar way. 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.
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
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
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:38 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> 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.This makes sense as I remember reading the latest versions of Firefox supporting gstreamer1 not 0.10. That's probably why gstreamer1-libav works with Firefox 40.