Re: GNOME 3 videos

[will kahn-greene <willg bluesock org>]

On 03/05/2011 04:22 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 14:27, will kahn-greene <willg bluesock org> wrote:
> 
>> This last bit is kind of important.  The last time I checked, you
>> couldn't access the html5/webm version of YouTube without an account and
>> without being logged in.
>>
>> If that's still the case, then I can't do the html5/webm versions on
>> GNOME Miro Community.
> 
> 
> According to this you can force HTML5 with &html5=1 on the video URL in the
> IFRAME player:
> https://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=3999166edeabe3da&hl=en
> 
> I tried it on Firefox 4 and it didn't work but it did work on Chrome. The
> video I tested was this one:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok100U4Fo3Y&html5=1
> 
> Can you try it with some existing Miro video from YouTube and see if it
> works? Note that you must use the IFRAME player.

To clarify, "Miro" is a desktop media application.  GNOME Miro Community
is a web-site that runs on the Miro Community service.  So "Miro video"
doesn't mean anything to me.

I tested your YouTube video link GNOME Miro Community using the
<iframe...> embed code from that page and it doesn't work--only uses the
Flash Player:

http://gnome.mirocommunity.org/video/4157/guadec2010-neelie-kroes-on-ope


This isn't a problem with GMC.  I have the same problem on a basic web-page:

http://bluesock.org/~willg/test/gmc.html


I went through the google.com support thread at the link above and
fiddled with the <iframe...> code to no avail.  As near as I can tell,
right now you can't embed the html5/webm format.

/will