911165 - H.264 - HTML5 video is not working on Unix platforms

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Mihai Morar, (:MihaiMorar)]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2013-08-30 15:53:06.png

This is happening on Ubuntu 13.04 x86 and Mac OS 10.8 on FF24b7 and Latest Nightly 26. It works as expected on Windows.

STR.

1. Go to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/graphics/videoformatsupport/default.html

Actual Results:
First and third video (H.264) are not displayed. Only the second one works as  expected (WebM)

Expected Results:
All video must be displayed and play without any hang or interruptions.

Comment 1

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

This is expected behavior, we don't support h.264 _by default_ on Linux.

Note that if you flip the pref "media.gstreamer.enabled" in about:config to true, and you have the proper gstreamer packages installed, they will work just fine.

Comment 2

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

(In reply to Paul Adenot (:padenot) from comment #1)
> This is expected behavior, we don't support h.264 _by default_ on Linux.
What about WinXP?

Comment 3

[Mihai Morar, (:MihaiMorar)]

Based on comment 1 -> Invalid

Comment 4

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Chris Double has recently written a blog post about media support on various flavour/platform Firefox [1]. Note that Firefox 26 supports mp3 on Windows XP.

[1]: http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/08/21/html-media-support-in-firefox.html