[PM 25.2.1] H.264 playback not working

[s3rius]

Hello there,

I wanted to switch to Youtube's HTML5 player and ran into some problems. YT's HTML5 page shows this to me:



So for some reason, H.264 support does not work and I'm not sure how to enable it. Youtube keeps using the Flash player to play videos.

Some info:

I've got Mozilla Firefox installed as well and H.264 works there.
I've got media.gstreamer.enabled set to true in PM. Other than that, PM is basically at stock settings. This is everything that shows up in my about:config regarding media.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have gstreamer1.0 installed.
Quirksmode recognizes the H.264/MP4 test as audio-only. If I download the .mp4 file, I can play it using Ubuntu's default video player, however. On Firefox, the video plays without issues.
I'm just learning to use Linux, so I have no idea whether I'm missing something obvious or not.

Thanks for any help.

[trava90]

Please read this: viewtopc.php?f=15&t=7301

This: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6290

And this: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5166

[SvenG]

Andrew has a nice article on things to do after installing Trusty, scroll down to Fixes
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/10-thing ... buntu.html
What you need is gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg that is not available in the official repos.

Off-topic:
If you are still learning, Andrews blog is very good reading, in general his tutorials are really well written and everything is tested.

[s3rius]

Please read this: viewtopc.php?f=15&t=7301

This: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6290

And this: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5166

None of this is Linux-specific so it's hardly of use. I know that MSE isn't supported, but I was asking about H264. Actually, the first two links led me to believe that PM on Linux doesn't support H.264. Thanks for trying to help, but you've linked me largely irrelevant information.

Andrew has a nice article on things to do after installing Trusty, scroll down to Fixes
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/10-thing ... buntu.html
What you need is gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg that is not available in the official repos.

Off-topic:
If you are still learning, Andrews blog is very good reading, in general his tutorials are really well written and everything is tested.

Thanks, that helped. I thought gstreamer1.0 and gstreamer1.0-libav would be enough to have. With this (and media.gstreamer.enabled), things now work.

[martywd]

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... (and media.gstreamer.enabled), things now work.

Ahhhhh, that's the piece I've been missing (media.gstreamer.enabled = true). Thanks for tip!
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[trava90]

Thanks for trying to help

Sorry, my bad. I misunderstood your original question. Glad you were able to sort it out!

[rrsportsc]

With [PM25.5.0] H.264 playback not working.

Using Ubuntu 15.04, 64bit.

media.gstreamer.enabled: true

All gstreamer0-* and gstreamer1-* and FFmpeg packages installed.

Works with Epiphany Web browser. Don't care to try Firefox, Opera or Chrome.

Download files play.

Tried new profile, safe mode. ( Even PM25.4.1 )

Have used PM from beginning, H264 works on Windows 7 64bit.

Been searching for weeks on web for info, can't figure in out.

[SvenG]

That's a tough one since many things changed since Trusty (on virtually all ends). You could try to install the Trusty package from mc3man's PPA
https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ ... es_filter=
That might or might not work in Vivid or break things.

[rrsportsc]

Tried installing that..didn't work all, guess it didn't like the fact it was from Trusty.

[SvenG]

It did install but not work or it didn't install? The latter would be normal if you tried installing via the PPA cause the PPA is just for Trusty. In that case you would have to download the deb package matching your architecture and install it manually (I suggest using GDebi since it checks for dependencies before installing). The only other source would be the packages for Precise
http://packages.ubuntu.com/de/precise/g ... .10-ffmpeg
but if the Trusty packages do not work I would doubt that the Precise ones do.

[rrsportsc]

Tried installing "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg_0.10.13-1_amd64.deb" via Gdebi and this is the error

Error:Dependency is not satisfiable:libavcode53 (>=4.0.7.3-1) | libavcodec-extra-53(>=4.0.73-1).

I have libavcodec-extra-56 ( 6:11.2-1 ) installed
libavcodec56 has a star next to it ( synaptic pkg mgr )

Thanks for the help, but this getting past my pay grade

[SvenG]

You could try this
http://linuxg.net/how-to-enable-the-sup ... l-flavors/

[rrsportsc]

Tried that also, didn't recognized repository.