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No H.264 support in HTML5, Firefox 49, Linux
Hi, my Firefox doesn't have support for H.264 decoding, although ffmpeg and other software compiled with support for it. According to https://www.youtube.com/html5 there is no H.264 and MSE & H.264 support. On pages with html5
Isisombulu esikhethiweyo
I have found the cause of the problem, it is Plex Media Server. This package contains libavcodec.so.57 which Firefox tries to link against and fails to do so (system-wide installed ffmpeg contains libavcodec.so.56).
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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo
I have found the cause of the problem, it is Plex Media Server. This package contains libavcodec.so.57 which Firefox tries to link against and fails to do so (system-wide installed ffmpeg contains libavcodec.so.56).
(For the record) For details on the problem and its solution, see this thread that nshibalov posted on the Gentoo Forums: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7991240.html?sid=38ed7080bf31ac898795875a04c62f4e [SOLVED] Firefox 49, no H.264 support