Firefox does not play H.265 videos
Something seems to be wrong with my openSUSE Tumbleweed Packman codecs. Yesterday my Firefox 105.0.1 (from mozilla repository) was unable to play H.265 videos (in *.mp4 container) at all, I could only hear the sound. Today I fixed some codecs in YaST ("switch system packages" to Packman), so that packages like libavcodec59 now are from Packman (was openSUSE). I installed the missing packages gstreamer-plugins-bad-codecs and gstreamer-plugins-ugly-codecs from Packman. But still, I can only play some H.265 videos in Firefox. E.g. the MKV H.265 video https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-obtCH8dE8V0NXdi1Jd3NrNkk/view?usp=sharin... (from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples) plays well. But my H.265 videos in MP4 container from my smartphone still do not play in Firefox. They play in VLC and MPV, so the codecs are installed. But Firefox still needs an unknown dependency to play H.265 in MP4. I did not found good documentation about this topic. There is a bit documentation about H.264 (not H.265): https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support Any ideas? Which multimedia framework does Firefox use? Greetings, Björn
Am 27.09.22 um 10:50 schrieb Bjoern Voigt:
Something seems to be wrong with my openSUSE Tumbleweed Packman codecs.
Yesterday my Firefox 105.0.1 (from mozilla repository) was unable to play H.265 videos (in *.mp4 container) at all, I could only hear the sound.
did H.265 ever work? To my knowledge Firefox does intentionally not support H.265.
Today I fixed some codecs in YaST ("switch system packages" to Packman), so that packages like libavcodec59 now are from Packman (was openSUSE). I installed the missing packages gstreamer-plugins-bad-codecs and gstreamer-plugins-ugly-codecs from Packman.
But still, I can only play some H.265 videos in Firefox. E.g. the MKV H.265 video https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-obtCH8dE8V0NXdi1Jd3NrNkk/view?usp=sharin... (from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples) plays well. But my H.265 videos in MP4 container from my smartphone still do not play in Firefox.
They play in VLC and MPV, so the codecs are installed. But Firefox still needs an unknown dependency to play H.265 in MP4. I did not found good documentation about this topic. There is a bit documentation about H.264 (not H.265):
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support
Any ideas?
Some discussion about H.265 is here https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136
Which multimedia framework does Firefox use?
None, really. Some codecs are built-in and the ones with patent issues are typically loaded directly from libavcodec like H.264. Wolfgang
On 2022-09-27 04:26:45 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
|Am 27.09.22 um 10:50 schrieb Bjoern Voigt: |> Something seems to be wrong with my openSUSE Tumbleweed Packman codecs. |> |> Yesterday my Firefox 105.0.1 (from mozilla repository) was unable to |> play H.265 videos (in *.mp4 container) at all, I could only hear the |> sound. | |did H.265 ever work? To my knowledge Firefox does intentionally not |support H.265. | |> Today I fixed some codecs in YaST ("switch system packages" to Packman), |> so that packages like libavcodec59 now are from Packman (was openSUSE). |> I installed the missing packages gstreamer-plugins-bad-codecs and |> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-codecs from Packman. |> |> But still, I can only play some H.265 videos in Firefox. E.g. the MKV |> H.265 video |> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-obtCH8dE8V0NXdi1Jd3NrNkk/view?usp=sh |>aring (from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples) plays well. But my H.265 |> videos in MP4 container from my smartphone still do not play in Firefox. |> |> They play in VLC and MPV, so the codecs are installed. But Firefox still |> needs an unknown dependency to play H.265 in MP4. I did not found good |> documentation about this topic. There is a bit documentation about H.264 |> (not H.265): |> |> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support |> |> Any ideas? | |Some discussion about H.265 is here |https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136 | |> Which multimedia framework does Firefox use? | |None, really. |Some codecs are built-in and the ones with patent issues are typically |loaded directly from libavcodec like H.264. | | |Wolfgang
Does this have anything to do with the DRM setting? Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 x86_64
Am 30.09.22 um 11:02 schrieb J Leslie Turriff:
On 2022-09-27 04:26:45 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
|Am 27.09.22 um 10:50 schrieb Bjoern Voigt: |> Something seems to be wrong with my openSUSE Tumbleweed Packman codecs. |> |> Yesterday my Firefox 105.0.1 (from mozilla repository) was unable to |> play H.265 videos (in *.mp4 container) at all, I could only hear the |> sound. | |did H.265 ever work? To my knowledge Firefox does intentionally not |support H.265. | |> Today I fixed some codecs in YaST ("switch system packages" to Packman), |> so that packages like libavcodec59 now are from Packman (was openSUSE). |> I installed the missing packages gstreamer-plugins-bad-codecs and |> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-codecs from Packman. |> |> But still, I can only play some H.265 videos in Firefox. E.g. the MKV |> H.265 video |> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-obtCH8dE8V0NXdi1Jd3NrNkk/view?usp=sh |>aring (from https://kodi.wiki/view/Samples) plays well. But my H.265 |> videos in MP4 container from my smartphone still do not play in Firefox. |> |> They play in VLC and MPV, so the codecs are installed. But Firefox still |> needs an unknown dependency to play H.265 in MP4. I did not found good |> documentation about this topic. There is a bit documentation about H.264 |> (not H.265): |> |> https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_MP4/H.264_Video_Support |> |> Any ideas? | |Some discussion about H.265 is here |https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332136 | |> Which multimedia framework does Firefox use? | |None, really. |Some codecs are built-in and the ones with patent issues are typically |loaded directly from libavcodec like H.264. | | |Wolfgang
Does this have anything to do with the DRM setting?
No, DRM is completely separate from the codec part. The Widevine DRM module used by Firefox works on top of "any" codec but wouldn't provide H.265 capability. Wolfgang
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