[OpenIndiana-discuss] HTML5 video issues with Firefox

[Will Brokenbourgh]

On 04/02/17 19:07, Erdos New via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> i tried this video on my OI-hipster and it doesn't play.
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> since i also have freebsd11 installed on another machine, i tried it on and it plays the video just fine.
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> From: Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
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> I have the same problem but it seems that Facebook assumes that whenyou are using a desktop you have to use FLASH to play videos. How Firefoxon FreeBSD plays videos is a mystery... On smartphones,it uses HTML5. The following leads to a videohttps://www.facebook.com/diamandino/videos/p.1360179687354673/1360179687354673/?type=2&theaterIf you replace www with m, you will be able to watch the video.A.S.----------------------Apostolos SyropoulosXanthi, Greece>I'm pretty familiar with which plugins I need and so-forth.  I'm not >having problems with YouTube videos, I'm actually having problems with >videos on Facebook and other sites.  Those videos worked fine *without* >Flash on FreeBSD, but when I try to view them on OI Hipster, they >complain that they need Flash. _______________________________________________openindiana-discuss mailing listopenindiana-discuss at openindiana.orghttps://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
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Just an update...

I have found that if ffmpeg, faad and possibly the gstreamer1 bad + ugly 
packages are installed, *then* Firefox will play videos properly on 
Facebook and others.  Firefox no longer complains about not having the 
latest Flash plugin.

This finding might solve the mystery as to why some Hipster users are 
able to play the videos while others cannot.

Thanks all!  :-)


Will Brokenbourgh

Sent from my OpenIndiana desktop