GNU bug report logs - #38045
IceCat-68.x lacks support for some codecs including H264/MP4

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Raghav Gururajan <raghavgururajan <at> disroot.org>

Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 16:34:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>
To: 38045 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnuzilla <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#38045: Video Rendering Issues on IceCat
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:37:39 -0500

Raghav Gururajan writes:

> Hello Guix and GNUzilla!
>
> I am currently using IceCat (68.2.0-guix0-preview3) on Guix System.
>
> Starting from version 68.X.X, I started to face issues with playing
> videos online. This happens on most of the websites (not all though).
>
> I get any of these following errors:
> 1) No compatible source was found for this media.
> 2) Your browser does not support the playback of this video. Please try
> using a different browser.
> 3) Error loading player: No playable sources found.
>
> I thought issues could be due to any of the add-ons I am using. But I
> was able to reproduce these errors by running Icecat on safe-mode (i.e.
> with all add-ons disabled).
>
> Regards,
> RG.

I've had these issues as well, fwiw.
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