[SOLVED] Epiphany does not play many Youtube videos

quequotion · 2015-09-13 13:01:47

Anyone else (still) having this problem?

Would you mind lending your support to either this GNOME bug report or this Youtube forum thread? After having a dissapointing experience trying to resolve this outstanding issue on my own, I've decided to take the problem upstream--both ways. However, I am skeptical that either team will take responsibility for resolving the issue; it is too easy for either of them to blame the other, or for both of them not to care.

EDIT: GNOME cares! but maybe Youtube has to do something about it...

In the past this could be resolved with nspluginwrapper (last commit 2011-12-29), and/or opting out of HTML5 on youtube, but flash is generally working in Epiphany now and Youtube no longer offers and opt-out for HTML5 compatible browsers.

EDIT: nspluginwrapper is definetly not an option; it does not recognize the current version of libflashplayer.so.

Last edited by quequotion (2015-09-13 16:18:41)

quequotion · 2015-09-13 16:16:55

It seems Epiphany's built-in adblocker is... effective.

If the adblocker is enabled, Youtube videos with ads will not play--but then Youtube doesn't say why the videos do not play.

I assume youtube sees their advertisements as mandatory, in which case they should show a warning when advertisements are blocked,

I'd prefer for Epiphany's adblocker to have a means to both block and skip advertisemetns on Youtube, but for now I'll just reset the setting when I go to youtube.

Solved?

Never had this kind of problem with Adblock+ in Firefox; but I do not know how it's functionality correlates to Epiphany's.

Last edited by quequotion (2015-09-13 16:27:26)

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#1 2015-09-13 13:01:47

[SOLVED] Epiphany does not play many Youtube videos

#2 2015-09-13 16:16:55

Re: [SOLVED] Epiphany does not play many Youtube videos

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