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On 2015-04-26 10:49, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> |
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> When I read a blog in Firefox 31.6.0, there are often You Tube film |
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> clips embedded in it. When I attempt to view these, I am getting, |
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> more and more frequently, the error message (from You Tube): |
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> |
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> "Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video |
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> formats available. Click <here> to visit our frequently asked |
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> questions about HTML5 video." |
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> |
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> Fair enough. The connection between the first and second sentences |
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> is a bit vague, but I surmise from them that the video is available |
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> in HTML5 format (whatever that is) and the link will instruct me on |
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> setting it up. |
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> |
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> Not a bit of it! That link, <https://www.youtube.com/html5>, says |
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> this: |
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> |
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> "Many YouTube videos will play using HTML5 in supported browsers. |
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> You can request that the HTML5 player be used if your browser |
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> doesn't use it by default." |
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> |
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> "If you encounter any problems, right-click on the player and |
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> choose "report playback issue", or let us know on the user support |
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> forums. Your feedback will help us continue to improve the |
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> player." |
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> |
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> , without telling me _how_ I can "request that the HTML5 player be |
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> used". Exactly what "the player" is that I should "right-click on" |
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> remains obscure. |
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> |
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> I feel that I'm missing some crucial piece of information which is |
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> obvious to everybody else. I'd like to view these video clips. |
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> Any help people can offer me would be gratefully received. |
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> |
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> The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox |
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> 31.6.0: |
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> |
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> USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags |
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> -custom-optimization -debug -gstreamer -hardened (-pgo) |
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> -pulseaudio (-selinux) -system-cairo -system-icu -system-jpeg |
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> -system-libvpx -system-sqlite {-test} -wifi" |
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> |
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> Thanks! |
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> |
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One of the ways to get H.264 video to work is to enable USE=gstreamer |
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on Firefox, which will allow Firefox to use any plugin that GStreamer |
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1.x supports. If you then also set USE=ffmpeg on gst-plugins-meta, |
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you will have GStreamer supporting any codec that ffmpeg or libav |
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(whichever you have installed) supports. If you set USE=x264 on |
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gst-plugins-meta, you will get H.264 support via libx264 as well. One |
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of those options should get you support for viewing H.264 videos on |
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Firefox. |
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Jonathan Callen |
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