FS#38104 - [firefox] Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Kai Hendry (hendry) - Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 06:29 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 10:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/ sez Support for H.264 on Linux if the appropriate gstreamer plug-ins are installed

On https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/firefox/ it says gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins package is needed for - h.264 and mp3 decoding, for watching H264 encoded video


However I get a:
http://s.natalian.org/2013-12-11/VideoformatorMIMEtypeisnotsupported.png

When accessing a HTML video URL with a H264 media file: http://firefox26.dabase.com/


Additional info:
* package version(s) firefox 26.0-1 & gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.19-8
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
1) Load http://firefox26.dabase.com/
2) Expect to play back H264 video and instead see http://s.natalian.org/2013-12-11/VideoformatorMIMEtypeisnotsupported.png
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 10:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 07:20 GMT
h264 needs gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.
Comment by patrick (potomac) - Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 22:00 GMT
for me h264 works with firefox 26.0 and these gstreamer packages

local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-3
GStreamer Multimedia Framework

local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-2
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries

local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.36-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)

local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin

local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.31-4
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries

local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.31-4 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)

local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.19-8
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries

local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.19-8 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly)
Comment by Kai Hendry (hendry) - Thursday, 12 December 2013, 06:09 GMT
x220:~$ pacman -Qi | grep "Name : gstreamer"
Name : gstreamer
Name : gstreamer0.10
Name : gstreamer0.10-base
Name : gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
Name : gstreamer0.10-ugly
Name : gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins


It's not working for me... I think additionally installed:

gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.31-4
gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.31-4


I think gstreamer0.10-good-plugins was the key to make it work.

You can close this bug, but I think the documentation needs to be tweaked a bit.
Comment by Xinkai Chen (Xinkai) - Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 07:05 GMT
I have added a section in the documentation (English and Simplified Chinese) regarding this issue. From what I learned, the key package is gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.

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