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Bug 1840867 - No video playback in Gnome Videos with gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 from fedora-cisco-openh264
Summary: No video playback in Gnome Videos with gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 from fedora...
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openh264
Version: 32
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Kalev Lember
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-27 18:30 UTC by wurstsemmel
Modified: 2021-04-30 14:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-04-30 14:24:58 UTC
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Red Hat Bugzilla 1839971 0 unspecified CLOSED Firefox WebRTC: mozilla-openh264 not working 2022-05-16 11:32:56 UTC

Description wurstsemmel 2020-05-27 18:30:35 UTC 
Description of problem: Gnome Videos (totem) does not play H.264 video from disk with gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 from repository fedora-cisco-openh264. According to [1] this should be possible since Fedora Workstation 31.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gstreamer1-plugin-openh264-1.16.2-1.fc32.x86_64 and openh264-2.1.0-1.fc32.x86_64


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure to remove gstreamer1-libav (repository rpmfusion-free)
2. Make sure to install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free (repository fedora)
4. Install gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 (repository fedora-cisco-openh264)
5. Open H.264 video from disk [2] with Gnome Videos


Actual results:
Gnome Videos does not play the video due to missing codec. Installing gstreamer1-libav solves the issue.


Expected results:
Gnome Videos should play the video with gstreamer1-plugin-openh264.


Additional info:
Potentially this issue is related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1839971, where I describe that mozilla-openh264 plugin for WebRTC in Firefox is not working. My rough guess is that openh264 may not work for gstreamer in Gnome Videos and for WebRTC in Firefox. H.264 playback with ffmpeg-libs in Firefox works fine.

OS: Fedora Workstation 32 (with Gnome)

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/kalev/2019/09/25/out-of-box-h-264-and-aac-support-in-fedora-31-workstation/

[2] I downloaded the video from https://download.media.tagesschau.de/video/2020/0527/TV-20200527-1723-1200.webxl.h264.mp4 (Tagesschau.de is one of the biggest german news websites)
Comment 1 Fedora Program Management 2021-04-29 16:28:15 UTC 
This message is a reminder that Fedora 32 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 32 on 2021-05-25.
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Comment 2 wurstsemmel 2021-04-30 14:24:58 UTC 
I removed gstreamer1-libav on Fedora 34 and can still play the video file from disk.

Therefore, I cannot reproduce the bug on Fedora 34. I will close the bug report.
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