On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 06:32:48PM -0500, Jonathan Callen wrote > > I unmerged the version 1.X gstreamer and plugins, masked out >= > > 0.11 versions and emerged gst-plugins-base, which also pulled in > > gstreamer. The Pale Moon build is churning along now, and I'll find > > out in a couple of hours how it works with h264. The web site... > > http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html has h264, webm, > > and ogg/theora test videos. I currently have webm and ogg/theora > > working. The gstreamer-enabled build will hopefully also run the > > h264 video. This will also be useful for Youtube in HTML5 mode.
Success. After a bit of experimenting I've gotten h.264 working at the quirksmode website, and on Youtube. Pale Moon browser requires... gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ffmpeg A confusing item is that gst-plugins-base and gst-plugins-good are in media-libs/ but gst-plugins-ffmpeg and 77 others are in media-plugins/ Go figure. > There is no need to remove the 1.x version of gstreamer (unless you > just don't need it anymore). The 0.8, 0.10, and 1.x branches of > gstreamer are each slotted (well, the ancient 0.8 release is gone from > the tree as nothing uses it any more) specifically so that they can be > installed in parallel, and upstream actually supports doing so (which > is why the ABI version number is in the name of every library, plugin > directory, and executable). Nothing on my system requires 1.X and I prefer a lean system. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications