Firefox webrtc support in F21?

Martin Stransky stransky at redhat.com
Mon Dec 15 14:41:35 UTC 2014


On 12/15/2014 03:25 PM, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Martin Stransky <stransky at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the WebRTC needs the h264 CISCO codec which was disabled in Fedora Firefox,
>> see:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155499
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1359
>>
>> If you'd like to use the WebRTC (and Mozilla Hello service) in Fedora
>> Firefox, go to about:config and set those values to "true":
>>
>> media.gmp-gmpopenh264.autoupdate
>> media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled
>> media.gmp-gmpopenh264.provider.enabled
>
> Does it really need the cisco one or any h264 codec (i.e do gstreamer
> plugins work) ?

No Idea. But the video (via Mozilla Hello) must me decoded and encoded 
which is done bu the cisco codec IMHO.

ma.


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