[solved] Making Cisco's H264 work in Firefox

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

I'm using the newest unkeyworded version of Firefox-35

Cisco's H264 plugin is present and set to always enabled.

However, it's not being accepted as being enabled, and playback of H264 fails. Here's Youtube's html5 page (https://www.youtube.com/html5): http://i.imgur.com/PupZdEq.png

What's the magic incantation so the H264 plugin actually gets used?

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:19 pm Post subject:

Do you see it when you go to about:plugins ?
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haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

Ok, turns out that Cisco's plugin can't even do any useful playback. It's just there for the WebRTC stuff.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1057646

To get H264 to work, one is forced to use gstreamer. Sigh. Ok, after enabling that useflag, it works.