Bug 196615

Summary: there is no vp8 support in youtube.com/html5 page with libwebkit2gtk 2.24 (MSE enabled)
Product: WebKit Reporter: wendywujian
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Philippe Normand <pnormand>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: bugs-noreply, calvaris, pnormand
Priority: P2    
Version: Other   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Patch calvaris: review+

Description wendywujian 2019-04-04 11:28:46 PDT
4/4/2019
on ubuntu 16.04/18.04, install libwebkit2gtk  (2.24 default has MSE enabled). run Minibrowser to test https://www.youtube.com/html5, it shows MSE, VP9 are supported, but WebM VP8 is not support. 
steps:
1) install ubuntu 18.04;
2) install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (2.24.0-1 and others);
3) run Minibrowser https://www.youtube.com/html5
   check WebM VP8 option
Comment 1 Philippe Normand 2019-04-10 03:28:29 PDT
0:00:00.788072091  6872 0x563617901f00 DEBUG      webkitmediaplayer MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamer.cpp:2267:supportsType: Checking mime-type "video/webm; codecs="vp8.0, vorbis""
0:00:00.788087296  6872 0x563617901f00 LOG     webkitregistryscanner GStreamerRegistryScanner.cpp:289:isCodecSupported: Checked software codec "vp8.0" supported false
0:00:00.788092658  6872 0x563617901f00 DEBUG      webkitmediaplayer MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamer.cpp:2277:supportsType: Supported: IsNotSupported
Comment 2 Philippe Normand 2019-04-10 04:30:59 PDT
Created attachment 367113 [details]
Patch
Comment 3 Philippe Normand 2019-04-10 06:46:19 PDT
Committed r244111: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/244111>
Comment 4 wendywujian 2019-04-11 06:22:58 PDT
thank you a lot. I will verify it.