[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

[Tim Stella]

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