Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:27:32 PM »Q« wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:58:55 -0400
> Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote:
>
> > Do you have the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems"
> > firefox add-on installed (I think it comes with firefox). I have it
> > but I still don't have H.264 checked on that page and I can't play
> > some H.264 videos like this one
> > https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us. If you have it,
> > do you mind disabling it to check if that's where you're getting
> > H.264 support from?
>
> I don't understand all the details -- not by a long stretch -- but
> AIUI, the Cisco thing makes it possible to use H.264 for real-time
> video chat, called WebRTC by the W3C and "Firefox Hello" by Mozilla.
>
> Judging by Alan's USE flags, it's not available for Fx 31.x.  In later
> versions gmp-autoupdate controls it -- with that flag set, Firefox
> will silently download the thing and updates to it from Cisco.  Mozilla
> won't bundle it because it's patent-encumbered.  It comes from Cisco as
> a binary.

Thanks, I rebuilt firefox with gstreamer support today and now I can play H.264 
video. I still can't play quicktime videos from apple's site. I think there's 
a gstreamer plugin for this but I don't know what gentoo package to install.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez