[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video
Hello All, this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience. Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part - I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed - I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264 support - html5test.com reports video element support with MPEG-4/H.264/Ogg Theora/WebM. I have gstreamer phonon backend with most of the codecs installed. - youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. example URL tested http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ as it has couple of youtube videos embedded - videos from vimeo.com does not play either. google isn't helpful. and there is no bug in arch linux bug db. Does anybody else experience this too? -- Regards Shridhar
On 02/02/12 at 01:55am, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
Hello All,
this has been bothering me for some time, so just posting for wider audience.
Facts, all applicable to rekonq and konqueror with webkit part
- I have qtwebkit,kwebkitpart and rekonq installed
- I am on youtube html5 demo trial. youtube.com/html5 reports support for webm and h.264 support
- html5test.com reports video element support with MPEG-4/H.264/Ogg Theora/WebM. I have gstreamer phonon backend with most of the codecs installed.
- youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames. example URL tested http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA1MTQ as it has couple of youtube videos embedded
- videos from vimeo.com does not play either.
google isn't helpful. and there is no bug in arch linux bug db.
Does anybody else experience this too? -- Regards Shridhar
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5. Tim Stella
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote:
Does anybody else experience this too?
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5.
Nope. tried the following(a trailor from a upcoming hindi movie), same symptoms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97P3zoUIos&feature=g- logo&context=G2fdb9b2FOAAAAAAABAA http://html5demos.com/video does not work either. I just get an incrementing timer, no video border/progress bar either. with youtube, at least thats available firefox plays both of them nicely.. -- Regards Shridhar
On Thursday, February 02, 2012 02:32:47 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote:
Does anybody else experience this too?
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5.
Nope. tried the following(a trailor from a upcoming hindi movie), same symptoms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97P3zoUIos&feature=g- logo&context=G2fdb9b2FOAAAAAAABAA
http://html5demos.com/video does not work either. I just get an incrementing timer, no video border/progress bar either. with youtube, at least thats available
firefox plays both of them nicely..
I was researching further on this topic and stumbled across http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-December/017091.html Following it, I went to http://tinyvid.tv/ and I am able to play video's from that site in konqueror. So it is related to codecs. Hence I searched for gstreamer codecs that I didn't have. I installed the following additional packages gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins So the current set of installed gstreamer packages are local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.35-1 local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.35-1 local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.35-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.30-1 local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.30-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.22-1 local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.18-4 local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.18-4 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1 Log in again and it works. Now I can play the phoronix embedded video, html5demos video and the youtube trailer I mentioned upthread. I think what I did was a broad hammer but it worked. May be these could be added as optional dependencies to qtwebkit? -- Regards Shridhar
On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Tim Stella wrote:
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5.
Embedded videos from youtube do work (sometimes; increasingly often as Google/YouTube becomes more confident about its HTML5 support, I think, but it seems a bit random). I know because I see them in Chromium on Arch Linux with no Flash plugin installed.
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:57:10 PM Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:40 PM, Tim Stella wrote:
Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded videos will work with html5.
Embedded videos from youtube do work (sometimes; increasingly often as Google/YouTube becomes more confident about its HTML5 support, I think, but it seems a bit random). I know because I see them in Chromium on Arch Linux with no Flash plugin installed.
The embedded video link on phoronix I posted earlier works fine in firefox too. Forgot to mention earlier. -- Regards Shridhar
On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 01:55:47 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
- youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames.
Does anybody else experience this too?
I still have this problem too with my regular user account, which contains the same dot files that have been upgraded since pre-KDE 4.0 days. It does work for me with a new user though, but so far I've been totally unable to find which part of my user config is causing it. Pete.
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:17:48 PM Peter Lewis wrote:
On Thursday 02 Feb 2012 01:55:47 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
- youtube html5 video does not work. I get a progress bar but no video frames.
Does anybody else experience this too?
I still have this problem too with my regular user account, which contains the same dot files that have been upgraded since pre-KDE 4.0 days. It does work for me with a new user though, but so far I've been totally unable to find which part of my user config is causing it.
Nope. That is not the case here. I created a new user and set it all up. Same result. -- Regards Shridhar
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Isaac Dupree
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Peter Lewis
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Shridhar Daithankar
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Tim Stella