Re: GNOME 3 videos

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 17:07 -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> 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

It would appear that we have three GNOME video channels: YouTube, Vimeo
and Miro. Would it be possible for us to decide and focus on one? This
kind of fragmentation makes it difficult for us to have an integrated,
high-quality communications strategy.

Best,

Allan
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