Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:27:45
Message-Id: 568C26DE.6070507@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10) by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 On 05/01/2016 20:43, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 06:36:06AM -0600, »Q« wrote
3 >
4 >> I couldn't follow everything in the bug linked from c12; I've been
5 >> using Firefox latest with gstreamer-1.0 for a while without problems,
6 >> but maybe that's because I don't use libav.
7 >>
8 >> This probably won't affect Pale Moon at all, but Mozilla has gotten rid
9 >> of gstreamer support in Firefox (not yet in released versions):
10 >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234092>
11 >
12 > When I go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 it shows that my browser
13 > (i.e. Pale Moon) supports HTMLVideoElement, H.264, and WebM VP8. What
14 > will removal of Gstreamer support from Firefox do?
15 >
16
17 it will use something other than gstreamer to play content.
18
19 According to the mozilla bug quoted above, gstreamer was removed from
20 firefox as everything that used it was gone
21
22 --
23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com