Re: Web 3.28.1 No Video

[Víctor Jáquez <vjaquez igalia com>]

On Fri, 25 May 2018 at 08:43, Adam Hunt wrote:
> I am running Web 3.28.1 on Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, installed from the distro
> repositories. I do not have Adobe Flash installed (non-free software) and
> instead rely on HTML5 video. This works fine in other browsers such as
> Firefox, Chromium, etc, but Web 3,28.1 will not play video, such as
> YouTube, Vimeo, etc. When attempting to play video the audio plays fine,
> but the video image is missing.
>
> In past versions of Lubuntu, the installation of video codecs from the
> ubuntu-restricted-addons
> <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-restricted-addons> resolved
> video issues and allowed earlier versions of Web to play videos, but that
> package now contains only chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra,
> gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3, gstreamer1.0-libav, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly and
> gstreamer1.0-vaapi and testing seems to indicate that this does not allow
> videos to be played on Web 3.28.1.

Uninstall gstreamer10.0-vaapi or upgrade it to its latest release 1.14.1

vmjl

> A reply on the Ubuntu Forums
> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2392660 suggested:
>
> sudo apt -y install libdvdcss2 ffmpeg
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
>
> But that did not solve the issue.
>
> The HTML5 test <http://html5test.com/> shows under "Video":
>
> video element Yes ✔
> Subtitles Yes ✔
> Audio track selection Yes ✔
> Video track selection Yes ✔
> Poster images Yes ✔
> Codec detection Yes ✔
>
> Video codecs
> MPEG-4 ASP support No ✘
> H.264 support No ✘
> H.265 support No ✘
> Ogg Theora support Yes ✔
> WebM with VP8 support Yes ✔
> WebM with VP9 support Yes ✔
>
> Any solutions?
>
> - Adam Hunt

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