Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

From	Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?
Date	2017-06-19 17:30 +0200
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On 06/19/2017 09:10 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 13:47:32 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>> So you don't even install recommends normally? I would have supposed (from
>> reading various descriptions of recommends) that this would result in
>> significant functional compromise in most packages. Not usually so?
>
> An occasional problem is not unknown but it can usually be sorted.
> I do not do it on all machines and certainly would not advise others
> to follow my example unless it is necessary (1G of flash memory, for
> example!) Using recommended packages should be the norm.
>

Ah, I understand.

> In the initial mail Jape Person also wrote this:
>

...

>>>>
>>>> Worthy of a bug report?
>
> Not from my experiences. You are using Stretch. The situation is that
> firefox-esr does not recommend gstreamer1.0-libav as it does on Jessie.
> Nothing else uses it, so deborphan lists it for removal. I agree with
> you up 'til there.
>
> The other issue is no sound or video played by a browser. Youtube is
> still ok for me with firefox on stretch (gstreamer1.0-libav installed
> or not).
>

Interesting. I'll just see what happens as things get sorted out in the 
new testing. I haven't seen any upgrades available yet since the freeze. 
I know it generally takes a few days.

Once again, Brian, thank you for your help.

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gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos? Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-06-18 06:40 +0200
  Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-18 14:00 +0200
    Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos? Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-06-18 20:00 +0200
      Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-19 15:20 +0200
        Re: gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos? Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-06-19 17:30 +0200

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