bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Earlier, I wrote: > I have a hypothesis of what might have happened here. > > Since the upgrade to version 68, the IceCat package in GNU Guix is no > longer using our system ffmpeg. Sorry, I forgot to mention why I think this might be relevant. The reason is because upstream Firefox adopts the approach of downloading certain codecs in pre-compiled form, to avoid certain patent concerns. That's not necessary when using Guix's system ffmpeg library, but maybe Mozilla rigged the bundled ffmpeg library to avoid including support for those codecs. Mark
bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Hi Chris! > Are you actively working on this bug? If you are not, then as a > matter > of etiquette, I think it would be best not to change its severity. I am not. Sorry about that. I read the control-debbugs help page and it mentions that criteria for 'important' is unusablity of the program. So I presumed that anyone can change the serverity level. No worries, moving forward, I refrain from changing it. :-) > Can you provide specific example URLs that do not work? https://playedvid.com/whsfksz0zw8c https://streamp1ay.me/yb4kihqvq8c9 > Did you try installing the gst-plugins-* packages? I observed > similar > behavior in the past. I believe I resolved it by installing the > right > gst-plugins-* packages, which is probably one of these: > > gst-plugins-base > gst-plugins-good > gst-plugins-bad > gst-plugins-ugly Yes, I have them installed. > You might also have to adjust some settings in about:config. I can't > remember if I did that or not. Video in IceCat generally works, but > depending on the video you might need to jump through some extra > hoops > to make it happen. I see. It was just weird that this is issue started after the upgrade. Before that, all was fine. Regards, RG.
bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Hi Raghav, Are you actively working on this bug? If you are not, then as a matter of etiquette, I think it would be best not to change its severity. Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hello Guix and GNUzilla! > > I am currently using IceCat (68.2.0-guix0-preview3) on Guix System. > > Starting from version 68.X.X, I started to face issues with playing > videos online. This happens on most of the websites (not all though). > > I get any of these following errors: > 1) No compatible source was found for this media. > 2) Your browser does not support the playback of this video. Please try > using a different browser. > 3) Error loading player: No playable sources found. > > I thought issues could be due to any of the add-ons I am using. But I > was able to reproduce these errors by running Icecat on safe-mode (i.e. > with all add-ons disabled). Can you provide specific example URLs that do not work? Did you try installing the gst-plugins-* packages? I observed similar behavior in the past. I believe I resolved it by installing the right gst-plugins-* packages, which is probably one of these: gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-ugly You might also have to adjust some settings in about:config. I can't remember if I did that or not. Video in IceCat generally works, but depending on the video you might need to jump through some extra hoops to make it happen. -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature
bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hello Guix and GNUzilla! > > I am currently using IceCat (68.2.0-guix0-preview3) on Guix System. > > Starting from version 68.X.X, I started to face issues with playing > videos online. This happens on most of the websites (not all though). > > I get any of these following errors: > 1) No compatible source was found for this media. > 2) Your browser does not support the playback of this video. Please try > using a different browser. > 3) Error loading player: No playable sources found. > > I thought issues could be due to any of the add-ons I am using. But I > was able to reproduce these errors by running Icecat on safe-mode (i.e. > with all add-ons disabled). > > Regards, > RG. I've had these issues as well, fwiw.
bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Hello Guix and GNUzilla! I am currently using IceCat (68.2.0-guix0-preview3) on Guix System. Starting from version 68.X.X, I started to face issues with playing videos online. This happens on most of the websites (not all though). I get any of these following errors: 1) No compatible source was found for this media. 2) Your browser does not support the playback of this video. Please try using a different browser. 3) Error loading player: No playable sources found. I thought issues could be due to any of the add-ons I am using. But I was able to reproduce these errors by running Icecat on safe-mode (i.e. with all add-ons disabled). Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
