Bug 493456

Summary:	www-client/firefox-bin alternative built against recent gstreamer
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	leho, manday
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cedric Sodhi 2013-12-06 16:41:26 UTC

Would it be possible if the binary firefox offered a "gstreamer" USE flag for a build which is linked against the recent stable gstreamer?

The problem without gstreamer is that HTML5 video is only very lightly supported (*only* youtube (webm?) seems to work). With a link against the gstreamer library support for any video codec would supported in a plug-and-play fashion through gstreamer modules.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-12-06 16:45:49 UTC

These are upstream builds - there is nothing Gentoo maintainers can do about that.

Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2013-12-06 17:03:12 UTC

Also it's a bit more complicated.

There's something in the works, but both the porting isn't trivial and mozilla upstream seems to make it harder than it should be (and testing how much can they postpone it).

Comment 3 Cedric Sodhi 2013-12-06 19:57:43 UTC

I didn't realize FF did not yet support 1.0. Once the support is in, I wouldn't see any reason why there couldn't be compiled a binary which links against the specific version of GST in portage (other than the firefox-bin upstream not specifically being compiled for gentoo?)... Thanks for the information either way!

Comment 4 Rafał Mużyło 2014-02-23 14:04:43 UTC

Well, going by the upstream bug, it's done...for firefox 30.

Given gstreamer herd take on 0.10 (as could be seen in bug 493176), any chance of an early backport ? Unless mozilla upstream has broken something during porting, it might be a good idea to get things running early.

Comment 5 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-07-19 13:30:11 UTC

Since this hasn't actually been made clear yet in the earlier comments:

www-client/firefox has used gstreamer:1.0 by default since firefox-31 with USE+"gstreamer" (recently we now also offer the option of gstreamer:0.10 again too).  However, www-client/firefox-bin is still 0:10 and although there is a push for it to change to 1.0 it hasn't happened yet.  So if you want gstreamer:1.0 , emerge www-client/firefox[gstreamer]; if you want to use firefox-bin, emerge gst-plugins-meta:0.10[ffmpeg]