[WebKit-devel] QtWebKit / KDE WebKit and HTML5 video

[Markus]

Out of curiosity: Is now any work going into fixing HTML5 video support?

Am Sonntag 24 Januar 2010 23:01:56 schrieb Dawit A.:
> On Sunday 24 January 2010 14:18:51 Markus wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I'm not sure if that's an upstream (Qt) bug, a KDE Phonon bug, or a bug
> > 
> >  within SUSE's Qt 4 packages. Maybe you can help me.
> > 
> > According to http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/QtWebKitFeatures45 HTML5's video
> > 
> >  tag should work since Qt 4.5, but for me (Qt 4.6) it doesn't work:
> >  Neither YouTube's HTML5 beta test (AVC codecs are installed), nor
> >  Theora videos (
> >  http://firefogg.org/make/mwEmbed/example_usage/Player_Simple_Themable.h
> >  tml ) works in Rekonq and Arora.
> > 
> > What are your experiences?
> 
> Well this is a known issue and has been for a while. The <video> tag has
> never worked at least for me with Qt 4.5 and multiple releases of KDE 4.x
> releases. It is something that is on my TODO list to investigate. I even
> have a test case for testing it. I am not entirely sure, but as far as I
> recall the issue has something to do with the multiple variations of
> Phonon available prior to the one in KDE being deprecated ??? in favor of
> the one in Qt. Anyhow, once KDE 4.4 is released, I will hopefully have the
> chance to investigate this issue...
> 
> Just as FYI though here is what I get on Qt 4.5 with the latest KDE 4.3.x
> branch:
> 
> Arora:
>   I get the error message "Your browser does not seem to support..."
> 
> ReKonq:
>   I see the first thumbnail image of the video and get a dark blank square
> where the player should be...
> 
> Konqueror + kwebkitpart:
> I see the player with the controls and initial thumbnail image of the
> video, but clicking on the Play button results in nothing!
> 
> Regards,
> Dawit A.