mime type and html5 audio

[marcin at saepia.net]

I am not core GStreamer dev, but I don't think GStreamer should accept such
workarounds. Please do not ask to build second Internet Explorer.

m.

2016-07-06 8:28 GMT+02:00 Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>:

> Linux - CentOS 7 to be specific, but my own build of gstreamer replacing
> stock - version 1.6.2 is what I am currently running (I update few times
> every year)
>
> mp3 via html5 in FireFox works when I have the libmad plugin so I know
> firefox is handing that off to gstreamer, but it stopped working with
> tumblr.
>
> When I looked at what Tumblr is doing, they are using "audio/mp3" as the
> type attribute on the audio source node, which is incorrect.
>
> However FireFox on Windows seems to not care, so I think the issue is that
> FireFox on Linux is asking GStreamer if it can handle "audio/mp3" and is
> being told no.
>
> Is there a way within gstreamer to make "audio/mp3" be an alias for
> "audio/mpeg;codecs=mp3" (or just "audio/mpeg") to solve this issue?
>
> Obviously Tumblr should fix their broken code but I have never, not once,
> gotten any kind of response from them on any bugs I reported. They seem to
> develop within their own closed world.
>
> I'm guessing this would require a patch to GStreamer itself, hence why
> this list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alice Wonder
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