Closed Bug 1189865 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

h264 codec not working on ubuntu firefox developer edition

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
41 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1189869

People

(Reporter: chris.de.kok, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150725004004 Steps to reproduce: Installed firefox developer edition from download on ubuntu. Actual results: It does not have h264 support, the cisco plugin is installed. Expected results: I expect to have h264 support.
Do you have GStreamer installed and enabled? You can't play H.264 videos in web pages otherwise. The OpenH264 plug-in is for WebRTC only. See bug 1057646.
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
I installed all gstreamer1.0* it didn't help. What is strange that the default firefox does work for h264 but only the developer edition does not.
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 20150801004005 http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html Works for me in Linux Mint KDE 17.1.
Well it definitely does not work for me on Ubuntu 15.04 the normal firefox has no problems though: http://i.imgur.com/yiL34ML.png
Does it work if you change the UA from the Dev Edition to FF39? NB: use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ for that
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
That doesn't work I am pretty sure youtube does not work with user agent sniffing but feature detection.
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
(In reply to chris.de.kok from comment #2) > I installed all gstreamer1.0* it didn't help. > What is strange that the default firefox does work for h264 but only the > developer edition does not. You need 0.10 for the Mozilla build of Firefox.
chris, coud you test with gstreamer 0.10, please.
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
I installed everything from gstreamer0.1* but still doesn't work also it does work on regular firefox so I doubt installing a package will solve it. :(
Flags: needinfo?(chris.de.kok)
IMHO if it doesn't work with the release of version (FF39), there is an issue with your OS installation.
Sorry but i explained in almost every answer that it does work on the normal firefox and the screenshot to show it.
Two people filed independent bug reports about this in less than 2 weeks, and I ran in another person having the same issue on IRC on archlinux in the few hours I asked about it. That seems much of a coincidence to be "an issue with our OS installations".
You would have added a version check to such a blacklisting right? Because both debian/ubuntu have patched this a while ago, so a blacklisting that goes weeks beyond that is of nobody's use.
(In reply to Jonas Thiem from comment #15) > You would have added a version check to such a blacklisting right? Because > both debian/ubuntu have patched this a while ago, so a blacklisting that > goes weeks beyond that is of nobody's use. Gstreamer elements don't appear to provide useful version information.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.