Why would anyone use gstreamer legacy? and Firefox x264 HTML5 support

bbarcher · 2014-03-31 18:10:52

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gstreamer
The wiki says gstreamer legacy is... "Legacy but widely used". On top of that every single linux tutorial on gstreamer I've seen talks about gstreamer0.10 i.e. the legacy one. Including the arch wiki page on Firefox H264 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … 4_playback Can I rely on the following setup?
gst-libav 1.2.3-1
gst-plugins-bad 1.2.3-2
gst-plugins-base 1.2.3-1
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.2.3-1
gst-plugins-good 1.2.3-2
gst-plugins-ugly 1.2.3-2
gst-vaapi 0.5.8-1
gstreamer 1.2.3-1

What is the required set to enable Firefox H264 support? Should I uninstall all *0.10* packages if I use the current version of gstreamer?

Last edited by bbarcher (2014-03-31 18:18:28)

fredbezies · 2014-03-31 18:18:26

Firefox doesn't support for now gstreamer 1.x plugins until you set a specific flag while building it : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

bbarcher · 2014-03-31 18:21:28

fredbezies wrote:

Firefox doesn't support for now gstreamer 1.x plugins until you set a specific flag while building it : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

Oh, so that's it. Thanks for your input!

So if I'd like to enable HTML5 video in Firefox (H264) should I rely on legacy-only gstreamer setup or can I use the current version of gstreamer + gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg?

What about gstreamer current vs legacy in general (let's put Firefox aside)?

brebs · 2014-03-31 19:03:45

bbarcher wrote:

gstreamer current vs legacy

E.g. wxGTK 2.8.12.1 (legacy version) links to libgstreamer-0.10.so.0 via libwx_gtk2u_media-2.8.so

karol · 2014-03-31 21:58:12

See also last month's thread on the ML https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 25903.html

bbarcher · 2014-04-01 17:00:07

So, should I remove all 1.0 packages if I plan on enabling HTML5 video for Firefox using 0.10?

When I tried to leave only gstreamer 0.10 components I got an error:

pacman -R gst-libav gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-base-libs gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly gst-vaapi gstreamer
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: brasero: requires gst-plugins-good
:: cheese: requires gstreamer
:: cheese: requires gst-plugins-bad
:: cheese: requires gst-plugins-base
:: cheese: requires gst-plugins-good
:: clutter-gst: requires gst-plugins-base-libs
:: clutter-gst: requires gst-plugins-bad
:: farstream: requires gst-plugins-base-libs
:: gnome-getting-started-docs: requires gst-plugins-base
:: gnome-getting-started-docs: requires gst-plugins-good
:: gnome-shell: requires gstreamer
:: gupnp-dlna: requires gst-plugins-base-libs
:: libdmapsharing: requires gst-plugins-base-libs
:: totem: requires gst-plugins-base
:: totem: requires gst-plugins-good
:: totem: requires gst-plugins-bad
:: webkitgtk: requires gst-plugins-base-libs
:: webkitgtk2: requires gst-plugins-base-libs

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Scimmia · 2014-04-01 17:02:24

No, why would you think that?

bbarcher · 2014-04-01 17:10:20

Scimmia wrote:

No, why would you think that?

To a noob like me the wiki page screams 'EITHER... OR...' Besides, HTML5 video is not working for me in Firefox, even though I have the ffmpeg gstreamer component and the appropriate about:config option enabled. Youtube's html5 test page still shows x264 as not supported.

Scimmia · 2014-04-01 17:13:38

Yes, it's either/or, but that's chosen at build time.

bbarcher · 2014-04-01 17:16:52

Scimmia wrote:

Yes, it's either/or, but that's chosen at build time.

You mean Firefox's build? And 0.10 and 1.0 gstreamer components can be installed on a system side by side without conflicts?

progandy · 2014-04-01 17:25:06

bbarcher wrote:

Scimmia wrote:
Yes, it's either/or, but that's chosen at build time.
You mean Firefox's build? And 0.10 and 1.0 gstreamer components can be installed on a system side by side without conflicts?

Yes.

bbarcher · 2014-04-01 19:34:34

OK, thanks for the clarifications!

bbarcher · 2014-04-14 11:29:28

One more thing. If both GS 0.1 and GS 1.x components are installed will most programs use the latter as preferred components? Are there any popular programs which don't select GS 1.x in such cases?

Slithery · 2014-04-14 12:04:52

All programs will use whichever version they have been compiled against.

bbarcher · 2014-04-14 13:27:11

Thank you.

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