[arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 00:08:15 Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> > I have removed flash after the latest problem with x86_64 release and I
> > want to get youtube working ASAP.
> > 
> > To that end, I downloaded nightly sources of webkit(not wanting to
> > download the entire svn checkout) and built the qt port. However the
> > video element is still missing, as tested on http://html5test.com.
> 
> There are 2 more options you could try too:
> - use aur/minitube a really nice standalone app for watching YouTube

But you need to know URL beforehand IIRC. Too much for my wife.

> - use a nightly build of Firefox 3.7a/4.0 which supports WebM - its
> faster and will support html5 + webM on Youtube (but afaik it's only
> available on some videos)
In general I use firefox only when I have to, because it does not integrate 
well with KDE and I really don't like GTK looks.

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Regards 
 Shridhar