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To sum it up, playback of current mainstream content does not only require an H.264 decoder but also an AAC decoder and H.265 is already preparing to replace the older one. if OpenH264 is of any use currently on Linux) or if Vimeo throws this error message due to some other dependency not being met despite H.264 and AAC decoders being installed. So it was using libav's AAC decoder? I didn't dig deeper to find proof for that nor did I look for which decoder will be preferred (e.g. Analysis or just make it breakĪpparently gstreamer1.0-libav is the only package you need to remove to get the error message back.

-blank-decoder true result: a solid green canvas and a constant sine wave audio signal.Ī smart approach would have been to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad, but this doesn't make the particular error message on Vimeo go way, so let's install all the restricted addons.Īs expected, everything works if you install the restricted addons package afterwards, but you may want to set the Flash plugin to something else than enabled in Firefox to be sure to use HTML5 video.

true Vimeo didn't use MSE before, enabling these and related settings had no effect.

Update: Looking again into this issue with Firefox 41, I found that OpenH264 seems to be disabled in about:config through: false The error message could be more clear but it makes sense since we don't have a decoder for AAC currently installed.

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If you look for it using the inspector from the context menu in Firefox, you will find an MP4 with AAC-encoded audio.

AAC is missing! – To put an explanation simple, there is a file on the server that is fed into our browser.

15.04 without restricted addonsĪs you can see in this screenshot the OpenH264 plugin is enabled, there is no Flash plugin, a few GStreamer packages in different versions are preinstalled but the video does not play! Instead the site immediately tells us that the video can't be played. 14.04.2 with restricted addonsĪs you can see in this screenshot only the OpenH264 plugin is enabled in Firefox, all the necessary GStreamer packages in different versions are preinstalled and the video plays as expected.

Whenever I made some changes in the test, like installing a package or enabling/disabling something in Firefox I closed and launched Firefox again. I chose Vimeo, because they say they default to HTML5 and they don't seem to support WebM, which I consider not to be a good thing. Since YouTube also offers their open sourced WebM formats and I wanted to avoid going into to much detail about test methods I needed to use another HTML5 capable site to test proprietary H.264 playback support.

Ubuntu 15.04 without restricted addons installed during installationĪfter the installation of both VMs was completed I booted the systems, updated them again, installed VM guest additions, started Firefox for the first time and rebooted for the actual testing.

Ubuntu 14.04.2 with restricted addons installed during installation.

My guess was that only installing an H.264 decoder binary wouldn't be enough, so I set up 2 new virtual machines: Not directly related but if you prefer to automatically delete cookies when Firefox gets closed and can't find the right cookie to keep for persistent HTML5 playback then I suggest to install YouTube ALL HTML5.

HOW TO INSTALL GSTREAMER PLUGINS MINT SOFTWARE

While this is indeed a very convenient solution it should also raise privacy and security concerns when software automatically downloads binaries from sites affiliated with Cisco Systems or other companies, no matter how transparent the process and license agreement is. That sounds great, doesn't it? Wait… that was a pun.

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To enable this plugin Firefox will now automatically download a binary from the OpenH264 website the first time you start the program. Mozilla added support for OpenH264 as a plugin in Firefox 33.