Tiny Core Plus 15.0 Firefox not view youtube and other video

[ekwator]

You can view frames of the video on the timecode by hovering your mouse over it.
https://www.youtube.com/supported_browsers

You have the latest version of your browser installed
All YouTube features are available to you.

My configuration (everything that may be related to this):
onboot.lst
graphics-6.6.8-tinycore.tcz
xf86-video-intel.tcz
pulseaudio.tcz
alsa-plugins.tcz
alsa-config.tcz
x264_148.tcz
x265.tcz
ffmpeg4.tcz
gst-plugins-bad.tcz
gst-plugins-good.tcz
gstreamer.tcz
dbus.tcz
firefox.tcz  - version 125.0.1 (32 bit)

/usr/local/lib/dri
i915_dri.so      
swrast_dri.so
nouveau_dri.so      

~/.mozilla/firefox/i5qh35r8.default-release/gmp-gmpopenh264/2.3.2
gmpopenh264.info 
libgmpopenh264.so
about:config
media.gmp-gmpopenh264.abi = x86-gcc3
(I tried to write gcc.tcz to onboot.lst, still no result)

~/.X.d/start.sh
/usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start
alsactl restore -f /opt/asound.state
start-pulseaudio-x11 &

Actually Subj

[Juanito]

When you start firefox from a terminal window and try to play a video, do you see any error messages?

[ekwator]

When you start firefox from a terminal window and try to play a video, do you see any error messages?

[GFX1-]: glxtest: eglCreateContext returned an error

[ekwator]

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 915G x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 20.0.8
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 20.0.8
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

[Juanito]

I did some testing with tc-15.x x86 and firefox-111.01

Using Xorg-7.7 flwm aterm wbar:

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firefox
[GFX1-]: glxtest: libpci missing
[GFX1-]: glxtest: libEGL initialize failed
[GFX1-]: glxtest: GLX extension missing
[GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI
...
play random youtube video
...
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4955da0 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4955a60 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4955f40 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4956280 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: a31cf040 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:281
[Child 5557, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=9f416b00 [OnMediaSinkAudioError]: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp:4550
[video plays without sound]
Loading above plus pci-utils xf86-video-intel Xorg-7.7-3d alsa-config alsa pavucontrol and using pavucontrol to unmuute sound:

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firefox
[GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: missing or old libva-drm library.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment
...
[play random youtube video]
...
[Child 9552, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a44548c0 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 9552, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4454720 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 9552, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4454a60 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
[Child 9552, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=a4454c00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:164
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
...
[video plays with sound]

loading intel-vaapi-driver removes the VA-API warning.

[ekwator]

I did some testing with tc-15.x x86 and firefox-111.01

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firefox_getLatest.sh -m 111.0.1 or

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firefox_getLatest.sh -m 111.01

Enter exact version requested.
 For example to download version 34.0.5 simply type

  34.0.5

 at the prompt, then select enter: ^Cfind: ‘/tmp/firefox*’: No such file or directory

What is firefox-111.01 ?

[Juanito]

111.0.1 I guess..

[Juanito]

I updated firefox to 125.0.1 and videos would not play - firefox gave the same decoder errors as before.

Reverting to 111.0.1 fixed the problem.

[ekwator]

Reverting to 111.0.1 fixed the problem.

This is my first installation of Tiny Core, I have nowhere to reverting.

What needs to be installed of the "box"  to view videos from the Internet ?

As I reported earlier

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firefox_getLatest.sh -m 111.0.1does not allow me to install the required version.

P.S. How you use the reverting? (backup and restore or there are standard tools
for installing older versions of programs)

[Juanito]

I made a firefox extension with firefox_getlatest a while back and, by chance, it was 111.0.1.

I saved the above extension before running firefox_getlatest again today, which downloaded 125.0.1.

After 125.0.1 didn’t work properly, I replaced it with 111.0.1.

You should be able to find a version +/- 111 that works.

[EddySRB]

I can confirm firefox 111.0.1 plays video without any aditional extensions.

[ekwator]

You should be able to find a version +/- 111 that works.

I finding version firefox 113.0.2 (32 bit) and removed from onboot.lst:

gst-plugins-bad.tcz
gst-plugins-good.tcz
gstreamer.tcz

otherwise the video was very slow when viewed even at the lowest quality.

P.S. The time is approaching that for old computers you will have to write and
compile your own programs. 

[CNK]

Reverting to 111.0.1 fixed the problem.

As I reported earlier

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firefox_getLatest.sh -m 111.0.1does not allow me to install the required version.

It doesn't take the version as an argument, you enter it at the prompt after running "firefox_getLatest.sh -m". It finds Firefox version 111.0.1 for me on x86_64.

[ekwator]

Reverting to 111.0.1 fixed the problem.

I copied firefox 113.0.2 from ubuntu 18.04 bionic beaver which is no longer supported but is completely working and create extension firefox113.tcz on Tiny Core.

With the ffmpeg4.tcz extension, I can watch a video posted on YouTube, but the live broadcast does not play. Definitely not enough codecs, that's enough for me.

[abru]

I have just downloaded firefox 125.0.2 (32-bit) and tested it on another 32-bit Linux system (easyos) and it works - can play youtube videos!
firefox_getLatest.sh -m 113.0.2  also works for me and firefox 125.0.2 (64-bit) with tinycore64 too