Bug 652351 - FIrefox with Gnash plugin unable to display YouTube videos
Summary: FIrefox with Gnash plugin unable to display YouTube videos
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnash
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Hicham HAOUARI
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-11 17:26 UTC by Steevithak
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:15 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-02-16 21:26:19 UTC
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screen shot of YouTube result using Firefox + gnash (122.85 KB, image/jpeg)
2010-11-11 19:22 UTC, Steevithak
no flags Details

Description Steevithak 2010-11-11 17:26:30 UTC
Description of problem: Using Firefox plus the gnash plugin, attempting to view a YouTube video results in the correct display of the player element but the video area remains black and contains the message "An error occurred, please try again later." The video cannot be played. The video can be viewed on another computer running F14, Firefox, plus the proprietary flash plugin, so the problem appears to be with gnash.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.6.12-1.fc14.i686
gnash-plugin-0.8.8-4.fc14.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install firefox, gnash, gnash plugin
2. attempt to view YouTube page
3.
  
Actual results:
video is not displayed

Expected results:
video is displayed

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2010-11-11 18:46:33 UTC
Do you have the required codecs installed? You need gstreamer-plugins-ugly, gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-ffmpeg from RPM Fusion.

Comment 2 Steevithak 2010-11-11 19:01:55 UTC
I have all this stuff installed:

ffmpeg-libs-0.6-4.20100704svn.fc14.i686
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-1.fc14.i686
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.fc14.i686
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25-1.fc14.i686
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.30-2.fc14.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.20-3.fc14.i686

Upon investigating, Add/Remove software reports I do not have these two:

gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.20-3.fc14.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.20-3.fc14.i686

I'll try installing those two and report back on the results.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2010-11-11 19:13:36 UTC
bad-nonfree definitely shouldn't be needed, I'm not sure about whether bad is still needed (but it used to).

Comment 4 Steevithak 2010-11-11 19:22:14 UTC
Created attachment 459827 [details]
screen shot of YouTube result using Firefox + gnash

screen shot of YouTube result using Firefox + gnash

Comment 5 Steevithak 2010-11-11 19:23:23 UTC
Ok, installed bad and bad-nonfree packages, then did a reboot. Still not
working. I'm attaching a screen shot to show what I'm seeing. If there are any
other codecs or packages you'd like me to installed, let me know and I'll try
them. Or if there are any other packages you need me to report on, happy to do
so.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2010-12-20 14:22:22 UTC
http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/77 ... remove all cookies from youtube.com in Firefox and restart the browser. Does it help?

Comment 7 Steevithak 2010-12-20 17:10:52 UTC
I tried that but it didn't help. Also used yum to uninstall firefox and gnash and reinstall, still nothing. Finally I uninstalled gnash and switched to the proprietary Adobe flash plugin. I'd prefer to use a free one so I'll check out gnash again when Fedora 15 rolls around.

Comment 8 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-01-29 22:03:05 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 9 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-01-29 22:04:13 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 10 Hicham HAOUARI 2011-02-16 21:26:19 UTC
Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F13_bugs#Gnash_fails_to_play_youtube_videos

0.8.8 should work without blocking youtube cookies, however for some unknown reason it fails for some users. Please try the above link and if it doesn't work, report your feedback upstream at : https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gnash

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.


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