#16535: Youtube playback and decoding issue
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Reporter: cocobean | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/WebPositive | Version: R1/beta2
Resolution: | Keywords: webpositive, youtube
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: All |
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
It seems Youtube has dropped support for using normal html5 <video> tag
and instead uses media source extensions.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Web/API/Media_Source_Extensions_API
The original idea of <video> is that the website would just give the URL
to a media file, and the web browser would handle playing it (leaving us
with the responsibility of buffering the data, handling seeking, etc).
MSE moves a lot of this into javascript code of the website. Which means
it is no more a simple wiring of WebKit with the media kit.
Currently MSE is disabled in our builds of WebKit. They should be enabled
(turn
https://github.com/haiku/webkit/blob/rebased/Source/cmake/OptionsHaiku.cmake#L82
to ON) and then fixed so that they actually work (I think I had the code
building at some point, but it was not working, so we had disabled it to
revert to the basic video support, which, at the time, was working better)
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16535#comment:2>
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