Bug 147000

Summary:	[GStreamer] Make YouTube work
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro>
Component:	Media	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	Normal	CC:	cgarcia, mcatanzaro, pnormand
Priority:	P2
Version:	528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Bug Depends on:	135972, 144099, 146999, 147003, 149103
Bug Blocks:

Description Michael Catanzaro 2015-07-16 10:12:18 PDT

Tracker bug for issues that prevent playing YouTube videos. My test case for this is a fresh install of Fedora Workstation. The main difference to Debian (where I'm told YouTube works fine) is the absence of the codecs that Debian distributes in its gstreamer1.0-libav package, which we don't have because unfortunately it is illegal to distribute them in the US. So if you can't reproduce these issues on Debian, try uninstalling that package first.

Comment 1 Philippe Normand 2016-05-19 07:36:38 PDT

Can we close this now?

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2016-05-19 08:33:45 PDT

Yes :)

Some very old (many years old) and very new (1-2 days old) YouTube videos are still broken, but this is Google's fault for not offering WebM for these videos; nothing we can do about that.