[arch-general] qtwebkit and html5 video

[Shridhar Daithankar]

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