Bug#567311: Bug# 567311: no longer works with youtube html5

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Tue Aug 10 20:29:40 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:00 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:05 -0400, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> > A few weeks back html5 videos on youtube (using vp8 or h.264) were
> > playing perfectly on epiphany (provided the gstreamer0.10-x264 package
> > from Debian Multimedia was installed).
> > This is no longer the case. It defaults to the flashplayer (which in
> > my case is gnash and it doesn't work without disabling the cookies).
> 
> Same here. Any video found using this query should be playable as HTML5,
> which works in Iceweasel, but not with Epiphany:
> http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=web&webm=1
> 
> BTW, gstreamer0.10-x264 isn't necessary, that's an _encoder_, Debian
> already ships a decoder for H264.

Seems to give me HTML5/webm if I change my user agent to :

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.0 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/6.0.411.0 Safari/534.0

Fuck Google and its braindead user agent sniffing, really.

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian
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