Firefox crashing playing mp4

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Hi guys,

installed Tumbleweed a few days ago and have some problems with playing videos in Firefox.
When I try watching html5 videos on youtube Firefox is crashing constantly. Also when I try to watch mp4 files is Firefox crashing.

When I disable “media.gstreamer.enabled” in about:config html5 videos are working fine. For mp4 videos the Firefox windows opens to ask where to save the file.
Is there an issue with the gstreamer packages from Packman at the moment? Did anyone else experiences this problem?

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do you have packman configured.
post zypper lr -d
from your error it seams that you have gstreamer from the oss repo, try and set packman as the system repo do a
dup from packman.
ps html5 refers to the player not the content, mp4 can be considered a html5 video.

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Thanks for the fast answer I_A.

Here’s the output of zypper lr -d

#                   | Alias        | Name                        | Enabled               | GPG Check                  | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                         | Service
--------------------+--------------+-----------------------------+-----------------------+----------------------------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
1 | GameTools    | GameTools                   | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |  110     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |        
2 | Games        | Games                       | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |  110     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/        |        
3 | Packman      | Packman                     | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |   70     | rpm-md | http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/               |        
4 | repo-debug   | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug   | No  | ----     | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                     |        
5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/                       |        
6 | repo-oss     | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss     | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                           |        
7 | repo-source  | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source  | No  | ----     | Yes     |   99     | NONE   | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/                    |        
8 | repo-update  | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update  | Yes | (r ) Yes | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/                             |

Checked already with a zypper dup --from Packman. The gstreamer stuff is from the Packman repository.

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maybe gstreamer is broken on Thumbelweed
try using ffmpeg for mp4 decoding
in about:config set these preferences (some might be set others might nor)

media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled;true
media.fragmented-mp4.exposed;true
media.mediasource.enabled;true
media.mediasource.mp4.enabled;true

I’ve tested Firefox 40 on 13.2 and both gstreamer and ffmpeg decode mp4 files for me.
maybe a tumbleweed user can be of more help

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On 13.2 and Firefox 40 it works for me as well :).
Hope I am not the only one… that would make me sad :slight_smile:

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Oh my god, I am such an idiot…
If I had carefully read your post I had seen the “true” after the semicolon…
It works now. Thanks a lot I_A.

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glad I could help