[rekonq] Re: YouTube videos do not display unless embedded

[Shane Lazar]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:00 PM, <rekonq-request at kde.org> wrote:

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> From: Shane Lazar <shane at archlinux.us>
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> Hi all!
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> Is anyone else facing the problem where YouTube videos do not display in
> YouTube itself? I just get a blank rectangle but I can hear the audio.
> However, if the video is embeded in another site e.g. Google Buzz or GMail,
> it works perfectly. Other Flash content seems to work fine.
>
> I am running Arch Linux with KDE 4.5.2 since yesterday but the problem
> existed even before in 4.5.1. Rekonq is compiled from GIT. Last recompile
> was today.
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> Shane.
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> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:05:07 +0200
> From: Benjamin Poulain <benjamin.poulain at nokia.com>
> Subject: [rekonq] Re: YouTube videos do not display unless embedded
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> Hello,
>
> On 10/06/2010 08:42 PM, ext Shane Lazar wrote:
> > Is anyone else facing the problem where YouTube videos do not display in
> > YouTube itself? I just get a blank rectangle but I can hear the audio.
> > However, if the video is embeded in another site e.g. Google Buzz or
> > GMail, it works perfectly. Other Flash content seems to work fine.
> >
> > I am running Arch Linux with KDE 4.5.2 since yesterday but the problem
> > existed even before in 4.5.1. Rekonq is compiled from GIT. Last
> > recompile was today.
>
> Flash has plenty of bugs. Really a lot. We try to workaround some of
> them in QtWebKit, and they find new way to break it with the next update.
> :(
>
> Which version of flash are you using?
> Is it that the plugins show something if the with wmode attribute is
> set, or the other way around?
>
> cheers,
> Benjamin
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I am running Flash 64bit version 10.2.161.22 on Arch Linux 64bit. Can you
tell me how to find out if wmode is set or not... I checked the page source
but could not find this attribute either on a working site or YouTube.

Yes I understand you have to work around Flash... :( If there was better
support for HTML5, I would use that more.
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