On my Tumbleweed Gnome x86_64 installations Firefox is no longer able to play most HTML5 videos after the update to version 46. html5test.com shows that my browser does not support this code and youtube.com/html5 agrees.
I do not have the pacman repository enabled but instead use
media.ffmpeg.enabled=false
and install the Fluendo GStream codec packages for decoding.
How can I get back my ability to play H.264 encoded videos?
Hi
I have Firefox 46 on Leap and h264 is enabled (with Fluendo codecs), I see entries under about:config for media.gmp<…> what do you have under that string. On older versions there was a gstreamer blacklist, but that doesn’t exist in Firefox 46.
Hi
OK, so just checked on a fresh Tumblweed install and all is fine with
codecs pack 22-2. Might be time to upgrade your codecs perhaps?
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Well, lucky me, my subscription has expired and I’m only entitled to version 21. I fired them an email to ask if they think upgrading to 22 would help.
If you find the time, it would be great if you could try out version 21 on your TW installation. That would at least clear out a possible problem.
Hi
I use VideoLan, just did a zypper dup from it on my Tumbleweed test system, and H.264 is now OK in firefox on the youtube test page…
zypper ar -f https://download.videolan.org/SuSE/Tumbleweed/ VideoLan
zypper ref
zypper dup --from 1
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Computing distribution upgrade...
The following 5 NEW packages are going to be installed:
libcelt0-2 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0 libvpx2 libwebpmux2
The following 6 packages are going to be upgraded:
libavcodec56 libavformat56 libavutil54 libdvdread4 libswresample1 libswscale3