[webkit-gtk] Video playback with webkit gstreamer

Philippe Normand pnormand at igalia.com
Wed Dec 2 05:07:48 PST 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 04:01 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Philippe Normand wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 02:40 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >> anil v wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>   I have ported webkitGtk on to Ubuntu Linux with video enabled ( 
> >>> gstreamer installed ). How to call play the video using gstreamer on 
> >>> WebkitGtk ? Could any one suggest me ?
> >> I can't answer your question but the packaged binaries (at least on 
> >> jaunty) are getting closer.
> >>
> >> Via the html5 media tags, epiphany / midori will now display the 
> >> specified poster but do not yet play media, 
> > 
> > Can you give a link of the page you try to load?
> > 
> 
> sure - ignore the incorrect border dimensions around media, that's a div 
> around the media and is currently sent up for flowplayer (what I'm 
> currently using as default on production) - this sample page is from my 
> devel box which uses html5 media as default in code it spits out.
> 
> Audio does not play, video only shows poster.
> 
> I suspect it is the current ubuntu jaunty webkit build and not a problem 
> with current webkit devel source.
> 
> http://www.shastaherps.org/sampleHTML5.html#multimedia
> 

Well without the controls patch merged you either have to use the
autoplay attribute or the javascript API to trigger playback when a
button is pressed.

Sorry about that :/

> -=-
> Midori -
> 
> Maintainer: Ubuntu PPA Webkit-team <webkit-team at lists.launchpad.net>
> Architecture: amd64
> Version: 0.2.1-1+git20091126~jjwkt1
> 
> libwebkit -
> 
> Maintainer: Ubuntu PPA Webkit-team <webkit-team at lists.launchpad.net>
> Architecture: amd64
> Source: webkit
> Version: 1.1.12-1~jjwkt2
> 

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