Firefox 74.0 Youtube Live Video not works

[ferran]

NOTE: I only have this problem when playing live videos from youtube on Firefox 74.0. With the remaining videos on Firefox 74.0 all works fine.

When I wants to play a live or streaming video (f.i. broadcasting a Chess Championship tournament in live) from Youtube appears a message that say something like this:

"Currently your browser does not recognize any of the available video formats."

I instaled the last Flash Plugin on CorePlus as exact as tells the Readme.txt file. After I rebooted and finally I tryed to play again the Youtube live video I would to watch, but not works.

It's possibly I need html5 plugins but.... We've this installed on TC v.11.0?. It will works?

I need help for this. Thank you in advance.

[GNUser]

Does this help?

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tce-load -wi libavcodec4

[ferran]

GNUser: Works !!! 

I would like an explanation of it, I need to understand it. What was going on with Firefox and / or Youtube streaming?

Thank you very much!

[GNUser]

Good to hear, ferran!

I don't think it has anything to do with browser (e.g., firefox), website (e.g., youtube), or live vs. recorded videos. Video files consist of a video stream plus an audio stream inside some kind of container (container examples: mkv, mp4, webm). How a particular video file's streams are encoded varies tremendously--there's quite a zoo of audio and video codecs. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_codecs

The fact that some videos were playable but not others suggested that you did not have the codecs necessary to decode more exotic video and/or audio streams. libavformat gives you a large library of codecs, so now your browser should be able to handle virtually anything you throw at it

[ferran]

I sang victory so much soon 

As I said libavcodec4 works fine with Firefox streaming videos, but that conflicts with XVesa (I can't switch it) because the screen resolution exceeds its size and hides the bmpanel bar, so I need to move the cursor up till the top to see bmpanel again. Also the keyboard configuration not works (I have the US keyboard again by default and now i'm writing with it).

Thus my priorities now would be to do the next steps:

1) unnistall libavcodec4
2) restore the backup copy i did yesterday
3) reboot and checking if everything it will ok again.
4) Search another audio/video codec

The steps 1 and 2 i need help of you, guys.

[Rich]

Hi ferran

... 1) unnistall libavcodec4 ...

Remove  libavcodec4.tcz  from  /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/onboot.lst.

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2) restore the backup copy i did yesterdaySince  libavcodec4.tcz  is causing  Xorg  to be included, removing it may cause the system to revert to Xvesa when you reboot.

[ferran]

All right Rich, i will change it right now.

But the step 1 i can solved thanks to you asking this replay:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,23676.0.html

edit: now the restart its OK. Just only left a good codec to Firefox without conflicts with TC

[ferran]

I visited the Firefox webpage about software requirements from the version ESR 68.0 :

GNU/Linux
Software Requirements

Please note that GNU/Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

    Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:

        GTK+ 3.4 or higher (OK)
        GLib 2.22 or higher (OK)
        Pango 1.22 or higher (OK)
        X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended) (OK)
        libstdc++ 4.6.1 or higher <---

    For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:

        NetworkManager 0.7 or higher (?)
        DBus 1.0 or higher (OK)
        GNOME 2.16 or higher (OK)
        PulseAudio (OK)

In the Apps Browser we've not this library, not too NetworkManager. Do we have anything like that to replace it?

[Juanito]

libstdc++ is in the base tinycore, networkmanager is just one of many ways to establish a network connection.

[ferran]

I just found in this web

http://ftp.vim.org/os/Linux/distr/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tcz/libstdc++-5.0.7.tczl.info

a library named libstdc++5.0.7.tczl (from gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3 at Nov 28, 2018)

Do you know if it could be able to Firefox?. In case yes: How I should decompress it?

[Juanito]

Before doing anything, try this:

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$ ls /usr/lib/libstdc*

[ferran]

@juanito just I did it and appears this:

tc@box:~$  ls /usr/lib/libstdc*
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so         /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.27
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
tc@box:~$

So this means I have it. But then... why I can't to play live video html5 from youtube with Firefox?. Maybe the problem is the networkmanager then?

[Juanito]

The problem is nothing to do with networkmanager.

youtube is a moving target and constantly breaks existing links and methods of playing videos.

You could try loading the gst-libav extension, but this will load libavcodec4 and Xorg-7.7-3d.

After loading gst-libav, you will need to run the following command before restarting firefox:

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$ rm ~/.cache/gst*/*

[ferran]

It's not found

tc@box:~$ rm ~/.cache/gst*/*
rm: can't remove '/home/tc/.cache/gst*/*': No such file or directory
tc@box:~$

[Juanito]

I'm not at a tinycore machine right now, what does this give:

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$ ls -a /home/tc/.cache