[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox still reporting missing codecs

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 30/03/2023 17:26, russell wrote> Performed an update yesterday 
evening creating a new BE, rebooted and > checked access to youtube.> 
Some videos work without issue generating no alert but others will not > 
play because the video codec is not available
firefox delegates some video playback to ffmpeg. Since the pkgin
repository (https://pkgsrc.smartos.org) has much more plugins than
the OI one, I have installed from there:

fmpeg5-5.1.2nb4     Decoding, encoding and streaming software (v5.x)
gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13nb29 GStreamer ffmpeg plugin
gst-plugins1-libav-1.22.1 GStreamer libav/ffmpeg plugin

and redirect firefox vi a script to load ffmpeg from there:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib/ffmpeg5:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} 
/usr/lib/amd64/firefox/firefox $@