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

[Dawit A]

This issue seems to be fixed upstream, but for most users it will have to wait 
until Qt 4.7 is released. See https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34631

On Tuesday 23 March 2010 17:09:55 Markus wrote:
> 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.
> 
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