What are the appropriate plugins and how do I find out if I have them? I have an...

revasm · on Dec 10, 2013

At a minimum you'll need gstreamer1.0 and gst-plugins-ugly[1]. Perhaps gst-libav[2] would be an alternative to plugins-ugly.

OT: Check out http://mpv.io/. It's a forked mplayer2 with native support for libva:

  mpv --hwdec=vaapi --vo=vaapi

[1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/plugins.html

[2] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/modules/gst-libav.html

mhurron · on Dec 10, 2013

I believe it is Gstreamer 0.10.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806917

Gstreamer 1.0 is a work in progress.

ushi · on Dec 10, 2013

Yes, that's right. Works with gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins on Arch Linux.

padenot · on Dec 10, 2013

I'm not sure we have done the necessary work for vaapi to work sanely. However, software h264/aac video work just fine, here. mp3 also works on this release (same deal, you have to have the right gstreamer plugins), iirc (it certainly works on Nightly, which is what I use).