HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

skottish · 2011-10-20 02:02:52

For a long time HTML5 worked everywhere for me, but lately HTML5 mostly stopped working on YouTube. All that's happening is that I'm getting the "busy-spinner" for almost all videos. In fact, the only exception that I've found is the original WebM video with Leonardo DiCaprio. It's not a codec problem as I can see and hear H264, AAC, MP3, Vorbis, Theora, and WebM, everywhere else that I know that works. This happens on any libwebkit based browser except chromium. The details are that I'm currently running libav-git and all of the gstreamer libraries that I'm using are built on this machine. This setup works fine everywhere that's not Google.

Any thoughts?

Last edited by skottish (2011-10-21 00:16:34)

Army · 2011-10-20 10:35:52

I just tried it with surf and it works fine. I use ffmpeg and gstreamer from the repos.
Just in case: You do remember, that the gstreamer plugins have to be initialized? So you should try to rename the .gstreamer-0.10 folder, start e.g. gst-editor and then try it again.

Last edited by Army (2011-10-20 10:37:47)

jasonwryan · 2011-10-20 10:46:40

Same for me with vimprobable2 with ffmpeg, gstreamer and the standard codecs: no issues with YouTube.

Tested with midori and all good as well.

skottish · 2011-10-21 00:16:11

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I remember the whole ridiculous ordeal that I went through to get gstreamer initialized before, but HTML5 had been working perfectly for me for like a year, and that's using FFmpeg or libav for all of the codecs.

Anyway, today it's working again and I did nothing between the time that I wrote this and now. So, I blame jasonwryan for throwing his uber-former-mod-psychic-html5-youtube-killing gaze in my direction...

*** DAMN YOU JASON!!!!! ***

jasonwryan · 2011-10-21 01:54:38

...So, you want me to SSH back into your box and make it broken again?

Mwuhahaha

skottish · 2011-10-21 03:44:20

jasonwryan wrote:

...So, you want me to SSH back into your box and make it broken again?

Do you want me to start policing your thread titles again?

I believe that you and I are at a stalemate old friend. We will meet again my clever adversary...

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#1 2011-10-20 02:02:52

HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

#2 2011-10-20 10:35:52

Re: HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

#3 2011-10-20 10:46:40

Re: HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

#4 2011-10-21 00:16:11

Re: HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

#5 2011-10-21 01:54:38

Re: HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

#6 2011-10-21 03:44:20

Re: HTML5 broken on YouTube through libwebkit [SOLVED (by magic)]

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