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yhoyhoj

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 11

[Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

Hello,

I wanted to watch a video on Vimeo but I was greeted with an error message on the player : "The video can't be played with your current setup".

I consulted their FAQ and they have an answer for playback issues on Linux (https://vimeo.com/help/faq/watching-vid … nux-ubuntu) but it 's specifically for Ubuntu users.
The dependencies listed are :

gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
streamer0.10-ffmpeg

I installed gstreamer0.10 (and plugins), but there must be other packages needed in Arch because it doesn't work.

I also tried disabling "media.gstreamer.enabled" in about:config (as seen in another topic) but it didn't help.

Do you have any idea on how to fix this ?

$> pacman -Qqs streamer :

gst-plugins-base-libs
gst-plugins-good
gstreamer
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-good

$> pacman -Qqs ffmpeg :

ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Last edited by yhoyhoj (2015-08-13 20:21:09)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

Simplest workaround:

mpv --ytdl-format=best "$1"

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89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

You need gst1.0 stuff for it to work i think.

gst-libav
gst-plugins-bad
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-base-libs
gst-plugins-good
gst-plugins-ugly
gstreamer
gstreamer-vaapi

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

You should always try installing optional dependencies, in this case gst-libav.

When posting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

How come gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg isn't listed in the output of 'pacman -Qqs streamer'?

Last edited by karol (2015-08-13 19:26:57)

yhoyhoj

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

Gst-libav was the missing culprit, it works ! Thank you Karol and 89c51 !

It works with the following packages ($> pacman -Qqs gstreamer) :

gst-libav
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-base-libs
gst-plugins-good
gstreamer

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You should always try installing optional dependencies, in this case gst-libav.

When posting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

Noted for later.  I installed those packages some time ago (especially firefox) and I didn't remember they had an optional dependency (which wasn't needed since today).

How come gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg isn't listed in the output of 'pacman -Qqs streamer'?

Sorry, I installed it after I started my post, when I realized that "streamer0.10-ffmpeg" was certainly "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg" and I forgot to edit. And it didn't help.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

You can run

pacman -Qi foo

or even

pacman -Si foo

to find out what packages are optional dependencies and why:

 Optional Deps  : networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks
                 gst-plugins-good: h.264 video
                 gst-libav: h.264 video
                 upower: Battery API

yhoyhoj

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Registered: 2015-08-13

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

I just need to think about it the next time I have a problem, thank your for your help !

gus#39

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Registered: 2015-12-18

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Vimeo (HTML5) video player doesn't work in Firefox ...

hi guys
i just want to thank you 'cause here i found the solution to see vimeo on archbang/firefox
thank you
G.