Bug 1090172 - Cannot play YouTube HTML5 videos
Summary: Cannot play YouTube HTML5 videos
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qupzilla
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christoph Wickert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks: 1089674
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-04-22 19:41 UTC by Simon Farnsworth
Modified: 2014-04-23 00:00 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-04-23 00:00:27 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Simon Farnsworth 2014-04-22 19:41:14 UTC
Description of problem:

I'm trying to reproduce bug #1089674 with my system, and cannot persuade my computer to follow the reporter's repro steps.

I installed qupzilla, went to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and opted into the HTML5 trial. I then followed the reporter's link to https://www.youtube.com/embed/AOUOHh6U67g and clicked play, expecting to either see the same error as the bug reporter (bringing into my package's domain to chase down), or a working video.

Instead, I see animated static, with the text "undefined" overlaid on it, and a "Learn More" link leading to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3037019?p=player_error1&rd=1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

qupzilla-1.4.4-1.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install qupzilla
2. Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5
3. Opt into the HTML5 player trial
4. Go to https://www.youtube.com/embed/AOUOHh6U67g and click play.

Actual results:

A YouTube error

Expected results:

Either playing video, or the fault reported at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089674

Additional info:

If you can spot another way for me to repro the original bug, that's fine - I'm interested in the gstreamer-vaapi failure, not in getting YouTube HTML5 working.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2014-04-22 23:54:46 UTC
The text of the referenced error message:

If you’re getting a player error message, most of the time, the video should start working again in about 30 minutes. This error can sometimes happen if the uploader is making changes to the video, there’s an issue with your Internet connection speed, or the video is being removed or having other issues.
...

which implies it to be a server-side issue.


The reference to bug #1089674 is interesting, against gstreamer1, because I believe qtwebkit still uses gstreamer-0.10

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2014-04-22 23:58:50 UTC
nevermind, reporter there is using a self-compiled HEAD Qt5 qupzilla build, so not really relevant here.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2014-04-23 00:00:27 UTC
Brian williams rap seems to work ok for me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jidziKYG9jk


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