Re: Firefox 30 and Gstreamer1 support

[Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi,

From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>, Date: Mon, 7 
Jul 2014 23:11:57 +0200

> As Firefox 30 supports Gstreamer1 natively, and as gstreamer1 offers a
> much better html5 rendering than gstreamer0.1 (namely the h264
> codecs), is it not a better idea for Firefox to build on top of the
> former?
> 
> If I wanted to venture in this journey myself, what should I do? I am
> not an expert in hacking makefiles but I have seen a possible starting
> point in mozilla-common.mk.
> 
> Could I change these lines:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-gstreamer
> .include "../../multimedia/gstreamer0.10/buildlink3.mk"
> .include "../../multimedia/gst-plugins0.10-base/buildlink3.mk"
> 
> to point to:
> 
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-gstreamer1
> .include "../../multimedia/gstreamer1/buildlink3.mk"
> .include "../../multimedia/gst-plugins1-base/buildlink3.mk"
> 
> or am I going in the wrong direction?

As far as I understand correctly, gstreamer 0.10 offers H.264 support.

Firefox 30.0 and SeaMonkey 2.26.1 support gstreamer 1.0.
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-gstreamer=1.0
should be used.
I will try to build www/firefox and www/seamonkey with it tonight.

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