LTSP don't support native audio and video in Firefox (HTML5)

[Julian Alarcon]

This is a tricky bug.

Today I needed to play a file in a page that was using jplayer player (jplayer.org).

This player use HTML5 capabilities in the suported Browser.

My installation of LTSP is on Ubuntu 10.04 and is using the new Firefox 10 (that supports OGG and WebM files).
When I tried to listen the file using Jplayer it didn't work.
Then I test a only a file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Buck_Bunny_small.ogv and... nop...

As I see the problem, I'm not sure where is the problem.

Work a workaround (using Jplayer) go in Firefox to:
about:config
change the flags:
media.webm.enabled
media.ogg.enabled
to false.

Jplayer will fallback to Flash Player.

In chromium is working fine, so the problem is now on Firefox+LTSP

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

Since e.g. chromium-browser can play an .ogg on a thin client and firefox can't, I would classify this as a firefox/pulseaudio problem.
I don't think LTSP can do anything to help in fixing this bug, so I'm marking it invalid in LTSP.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The Wikipedia .ogv file that you linked plays here with Firefox 26 on Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail". Are you still having any HTML5 video problems with Firefox 26 on a recent version of Ubuntu?

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Right now I don't an LTSP environment, but when I reported this problem, the video was working fine on a standalone installation of Ubuntu, I don't know if the problem is still there.

Please, look for Firefox on LTSP to discard or reaffirm this bug.

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

Proof that Julian Alarcon has an account/heart.

Please mark this bug as Won't fix. It's really old.

Greetings Julia