Solved After ports update, Firefox is unable to play live streams in youtube etc.

[fernandel]

I built waterfox 140.6 esr , with ffmpeg 8 from source code in ports. I can click on a youtube link in a forum/blog and open the youtube video in waterfox.

I am using packages and in FreeBSDForum - music I see what I posted but if I clink on the link it open me youtube and there it works.

 

[sko]

I built waterfox 140.6 esr , with ffmpeg 8 from source code in ports. I can click on a youtube link in a forum/blog and open the youtube video in waterfox.

I completely missed to check if waterfox works... Too late I guess as I already ran a pkg build with ffmpeg rolled back to 6.1.2_17,1 and ran pkg upgrade on my desktop...

 

[aafbsd]

Because while updating to version 8, some options got removed by maintainers, i don't know the reason why.

I opened a bug report on bugzilla.
Bug 291974 - multimedia/ffmpeg 8.0.1_1,1, www/firefox-esr 140.6.0_1,2: Unable to play live streams, downgrading ffmpeg to 6.1.2_17,1 fixes it

It also happened on reddit, i guess most of them didn't play.

Currently, i've downgraded ffmpeg to working version, then locked it with pkg.

The PR now contains a patch so FF 140ESR works with ffmpeg8 (only tested on utube)...