YouTube HTML5 videos?

[diligentcircle]

So, I tried watching videos on YouTube using HTML5 (by opting into the HTML5 trial on www.youtube.com/html5) on Chromium, Firefox, and Midori, and on all three browsers (latest versions), it just... never loads. Indicates that it's buffering, but never actually loads the video. I don't quite understand why, since it works fine in Firefox on my laptop, and the problem is exactly the same for all three browsers on the Pandora.


(I don't think it matters, but I'm on HF6, just to clarify.)


Any ideas why this could be? It would be a fantastic bonus to be able to watch (non-partnered) YouTube videos without MiniTube. (Side note: directly watching videos in MiniTube doesn't seem to work, so the only way I can use it is to download the videos... a tiny pain) Of course, Firefox can use flash, but that just... doesn't work well at all on the Pandora.

 

[kc187]

The current Midori and Firefox are able to play Youtube videos... not very well, but it's possible.


In the appdata/firefox folder, there's a file named libflashplayer.so or something like that. Copy it, rename your copy to adobeflashplayer.so, drop it in the appdata/midori/plugins folder.


That solved this problem for me. I'm also running Hotfix 6.


You can find these current versions at repo.openpandora.org


http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=firefox.hdonk.500


http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=midori-slaeshjag

 

[diligentcircle]

The current Midori and Firefox are able to play Youtube videos... not very well, but it's possible.


In the appdata/firefox folder, there's a file named libflashplayer.so or something like that. Copy it, rename your copy to adobeflashplayer.so, drop it in the appdata/midori/plugins folder.


That solved this problem for me. I'm also running Hotfix 6.


You can find these current versions at repo.openpandora.org


http://repo.openpand...refox.hdonk.500


http://repo.openpand...idori-slaeshjag

I know that Flash works, but I've tried it on Firefox and frankly, the video is too choppy.

it works fine on 240p

HTML5...? It looks like playing in 240p for 360p+ sized videos isn't available in the HTML5 player.


Or are you talking about Flash? Again, I'm not interested in that.

 

[slaeshjag]

i did once get HTML5 video playback to work with midori. The bad news is: It was way WAY slower than the flashplayer :/

 

[diligentcircle]

i did once get HTML5 video playback to work with midori. The bad news is: It was way WAY slower than the flashplayer :/

Hm... so how did you get it to work?

 

[slaeshjag]

I can't remember. But it was with Midori 0.3.3, as it was before my pandora PTOD'ed.

 

[milkshake]

hopefully when the pandora utilises the DSP things like flash and video playback will be greatly improved and then as a rseult youtube via flash or html5 player should be much better (smoother)

 

[diligentcircle]

Well, I was just going to try to find version history for Midori, but I found this in their FAQ:

HTML5 Video doesn't play


You need to have GStreamer plugins installed which implement the codecs.

1. You need gstreamer0.10-pulse if you're using PulseAudio.
   
2. You may need gstreamer0.10-alsa for ALSA, depending on your distribution.
   
3. With Arch Linux, you may need to install liboil explicitly if it is not installed already (see this bug report).
   
4. You need plugins for Theora, gstreamer0.10-base and MPEG-4 incluing aac (e.g. gst-plugins-faad), gstreamer0.10-bad. For WebM, you'll need plugins for vorbis (-base), matroska (-good), and vp8 (-bad). Have a look at http://www.gstreamer.net/documentation/plugins.html for details.
   
5. For Youtube or Vimeo, you need WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20 or newer.
   
6. You can test your installed codecs here..
   
7. Since Midori 0.3.5 you can look at “about:version” to see which video codecs you have installed.
   

Could any of these possibly be an issue?

 

[slaeshjag]

I remember the problem being broken javascript engine, not missing plugins etc. Although I can't say I've ever gotten version > 0.3.3 to play anything using gstreamer. Maybe something happened during a hotfix? Last Hotfix I used before my Pandora PTOD'd was HF4.

 

[skeezix]

Try a very short (liek 3 second) video, to just see if its a buffering issue; my guess is its just taking a really, really long time to pull anything down.


jeff

 

[DaMummy]

speaking of youtube, did anyone figure out a way to get youtube to default to 240p? hopefully in midori

 

[diligentcircle]

After something like 2 minutes, I'm not seeing any progress with this video:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MXgnIP4rMoI?feature=oembed

 

[milkshake]

After something like 2 minutes, I'm not seeing any progress with this video:

LMFAO haha