Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 09/11/2017 02:34 PM, Whit Hansell wrote:

Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.???



 Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
 available


Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense
and many of the answers are very old  The youtube screen points me
to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the
problem..


It's nuts...  Thanks in advance...

whit


I'm thinking maybe the problem was with youtube, I had the same problem 
and it just went away.  What was happening to this system was youtube 
would offer to let me download and not play.  Now it plays as it should 
with no intervention from me.

--
Jimmy Johnson

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - KDE Plasma 4.8.5 - EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263

Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Nick Boyce]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:57:38 -0400
Whit Hansell  wrote:

> For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
> youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
>   Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
> Voila' it worked.

Thanks for letting us know (I was guessing you had a plugin or extension that 
disabled vital Google Javascript).

But I'd never heard of "Youtube Flash Player - HTML5". nor did its name make 
any sense, so - fearing you may have been tricked into installing malware - I 
went off googling.  And now I'm really baffled: it's apparently a "lightweight 
Flash player" dedicated to the single task of viewing Youtube videos, for use 
when the browser's HTML5 capabilities are not up to the job of running YT's 
HTML5 player - but this lightweight Flash player *needs* Adobe's full Flash 
Player to be installed in order to work.  So what's the advantage of the 
lightweight "shim" ???!?  You might just as well stick to using the Adobe Flash 
Player to both watch YT videos and turn your PC into a playground for Bad Guys 
:)

I's be interested in any explanation of this curious situation that anyone may 
be able to offer.

Cheers
Nick
-- 
Never FDISK after midnight.

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[John Hasler]

 Ben Caradoc-Davies writes:
> The flash plugin package is often broken (downloads from Adobe fail)
> and seems no longer required for YouTube. Or anywhere for that matter.

Unfortunately not quite true.  There are a few benighted sites that
still require it such as weather.gov. 
-- 
John Hasler 
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 08:19:53AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> I advise against installing the flash plugin. The flash plugin package is
> often broken (downloads from Adobe fail) and seems no longer required for
> YouTube. Or anywhere for that matter. I uninstalled it a few weeks ago.

Lucky you.  My workplace recently threw TWO new Flash-requiring pages at
us: one of them is an "upgrade" of Kronos which now requires Flash to use
(the old version did not), and the other is an education/training thing
whose name I don't know.

The Flash disease isn't dying out quickly enough.  New outbreaks are
still occurring.

Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 13/09/17 02:57, Whit Hansell wrote:
For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
  Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
Voila' it worked.

Thank you all for your help.  Much appreciated...
Regards,
Whit Hansell


Great! Thanks for reporting back.

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 13/09/17 02:29, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

Did you tried or have installed adobe flash player plugin?


I advise against installing the flash plugin. The flash plugin package 
is often broken (downloads from Adobe fail) and seems no longer required 
for YouTube. Or anywhere for that matter. I uninstalled it a few weeks ago.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 12/09/17 23:53, Whit Hansell wrote:

It's Firefox ESR 52.3.0  (64 bit)
As to you tube, when I go to youtube (youtube.com) and click on any of 
the videos available a new page opens w. only a black video graphic.  No 
way to start it so I have found that if I refresh the pate a new page 
starts w. the various video graphics at the bottom of that same black 
video graphic but w. the message about the browser not suporting any of 
the video formats and with the message about html5.  I can't start the 
graphic using the start button in the graphic, nothing happens.
I just picked one video from the youtube.com site and this is the url. 
It really doesn't matter which one I select...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqDsPXfzjk
I don't get it. Have been having this same problem about the first 
graphic not working for about a week but was able to get it sorking when 
the refresh page hit and I could hit the start graphic button in the 
video frame.  It no longer works

Thanks.
Whit  Hansell


Whit, that URL works perfectly for me in firefox 55.0.3-1 amd64 on sid. 
The video is displayed with HTML5. Please try clearing your cache and 
saved site settings (preferences privacy section) and starting firefox 
in safe mode:


firefox --safe-mode

Do you have any extensions installed? Safe mode will disable them.

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re:[Solved] youtube error msg & html5

[Whit Hansell]

For grins, I tried restarting  Firefox w/o plugins.  Then went to 
youtube and tried a video.  Worked perfectly.  So knew it was a plug-in. 
 Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5."  disabled it and 
Voila' it worked.


Thank you all for your help.  Much appreciated...
Regards,
Whit Hansell

On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:

apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl

Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.

youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
prefer it.

Reco




Installed cclive.   youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find 
youtube-viewer)  restarted Firefox and tried to load a video.  No change.

Thanks for the try tho.
whit

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Alexander V. Makartsev]

It looks like you have missing some codecs or libs. Try installing these:
sudo apt-get install libavcodec57 libavcodec-extra57 va-driver-all
vdpau-va-driver

Did you tried or have installed adobe flash player plugin?
Also, tell me about your hardware.


On 12.09.2017 16:53, Whit Hansell wrote:
> It's Firefox ESR 52.3.0  (64 bit)
>
> As to you tube, when I go to youtube (youtube.com) and click on any of
> the videos available a new page opens w. only a black video graphic. 
> No way to start it so I have found that if I refresh the pate a new
> page starts w. the various video graphics at the bottom of that same
> black video graphic but w. the message about the browser not suporting
> any of the video formats and with the message about html5.  I can't
> start the graphic using the start button in the graphic, nothing happens.
>
> I just picked one video from the youtube.com site and this is the
> url.  It really doesn't matter which one I select...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqDsPXfzjk
>
> I don't get it. Have been having this same problem about the first
> graphic not working for about a week but was able to get it sorking
> when the refresh page hit and I could hit the start graphic button in
> the video frame.  It no longer works
>
> Thanks.
>
> Whit  Hansell
>
>
>
> On 09/11/2017 06:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>> On 12/09/17 09:34, Whit Hansell wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on
>>> YouTube.???
>>>   Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
>>>   available
>>> Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any
>>> sense and many of the answers are very old  The youtube
>>> screen points me to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find
>>> out how to fix the problem..
>>
>> What browser and version, and what YouTube URL?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Reco]

Hi.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 02:48:23PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Installed cclive.   youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find
> > youtube-viewer)  restarted Firefox and tried to load a video.  No
> > change.
> 
> No, no -- those are not supposed to work from the browser, but to
> download the video, like so:
> 
>   youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ;
> 
> Same syntax for cclive, just substituting cclive for youtube-dl.
> 
> (I just made up that URL, so download with care or better: don't).

That's ok, that particular video is harmless, so to say:

$ youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ;
[youtube] W_NPEFH-VSQ: Downloading webpage
[youtube] W_NPEFH-VSQ: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: W_NPEFH-VSQ: YouTube said: This video does not exist.

> 
> A file appears in your current directory, and you can look at it
> at your leisure, with your favourite viewer (ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc,
> you name it) instead of being forced to do whatever a badly cobbled-
> together javascript "application" running in your browser has
> decided to limit you to.

Or, simply run (mpv will run youtube-dl by itself):

mpv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ;

Reco

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[tomas]

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:

[...]

> Installed cclive.   youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find
> youtube-viewer)  restarted Firefox and tried to load a video.  No
> change.

No, no -- those are not supposed to work from the browser, but to
download the video, like so:

  youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_NPEFH-VSQ;

Same syntax for cclive, just substituting cclive for youtube-dl.

(I just made up that URL, so download with care or better: don't).

A file appears in your current directory, and you can look at it
at your leisure, with your favourite viewer (ffmpeg, mplayer, vlc,
you name it) instead of being forced to do whatever a badly cobbled-
together javascript "application" running in your browser has
decided to limit you to.

A bit jarring at first, but liberating (as red pills tend to be).

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Re: youtube error msg & html5

[tomas]

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 03:15:36PM +0300, Reco wrote:

[...]

> It was my impression that what Google *actually* wants is to keep
> everyone immersed into Android phone/tablet, not a conventional browser.
> Why settling to having user's browsing habits if you can have user's
> whole life?

That's definitely better, yes, but to get "the others" (iPhoners and
those (*gasp*) using a dumb phone), Chrome is a pretty neat strategy.

At $WORKPLACE we already had one (mandatory) course on "compliance"
provided by one external company which "runs only on Chrome", and
yes, those @#&%$!* acutally managed to produce some monster which
kinda limped along on Firefox (doing strange things here and there).

I thought the days of "best viewed with Internet Explorer 6" were
over. They're back, and worse than ever.

That's, btw, the main reason for me that I don't touch Chrome unless
with thick gloves.

Cheers
- - tomás
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Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Whit Hansell]

On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:

apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl

Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.

youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
prefer it.

Reco




Installed cclive.   youtube-viewer not available.(Unable to find 
youtube-viewer)  restarted Firefox and tried to load a video.  No change.

Thanks for the try tho.
whit

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Reco]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:59:21PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:48:23PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl
> > 
> > Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.
> > 
> > youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
> > prefer it.
> 
> Besides, some of them stop working when youtube changes something:
> chances are good that another keeps working.

And that's why things like youtube-dl belong to volatile archive (IMO),
not main one.
Also it's that's why I prefer downloaded youtube-dl to Debian one. One
of those rare exceptions I prefer to make.


> Don't forget that
> youtube (aka Google) *desperately wants* to keep you immersed in
> the browser to enjoy the whole "experience".

It was my impression that what Google *actually* wants is to keep
everyone immersed into Android phone/tablet, not a conventional browser.
Why settling to having user's browsing habits if you can have user's
whole life?

> (Sometimes eery how accurate those dystopian metaphors can be,
> ain't it?)

I prefer the term "accurate view on reality" to "dystopian metaphor" ☺.

Reco

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Whit Hansell]

It's Firefox ESR 52.3.0  (64 bit)

As to you tube, when I go to youtube (youtube.com) and click on any of 
the videos available a new page opens w. only a black video graphic.  No 
way to start it so I have found that if I refresh the pate a new page 
starts w. the various video graphics at the bottom of that same black 
video graphic but w. the message about the browser not suporting any of 
the video formats and with the message about html5.  I can't start the 
graphic using the start button in the graphic, nothing happens.


I just picked one video from the youtube.com site and this is the url.  
It really doesn't matter which one I select...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqDsPXfzjk

I don't get it. Have been having this same problem about the first 
graphic not working for about a week but was able to get it sorking when 
the refresh page hit and I could hit the start graphic button in the 
video frame.  It no longer works


Thanks.

Whit  Hansell



On 09/11/2017 06:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

On 12/09/17 09:34, Whit Hansell wrote:
Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on 
YouTube.???

  Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
  available
Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any 
sense and many of the answers are very old  The youtube 
screen points me to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find 
out how to fix the problem..


What browser and version, and what YouTube URL?

Kind regards,

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[tomas]

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:48:23PM +0300, Reco wrote:
>   Hi.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl
> 
> Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.
> 
> youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
> prefer it.

Besides, some of them stop working when youtube changes something:
chances are good that another keeps working. Don't forget that
youtube (aka Google) *desperately wants* to keep you immersed in
the browser to enjoy the whole "experience". So it'll try to
disrupt the few red pills out there from time to time to make
the blue pill (browser, preferably theirs) more palatable and
keep you being part of the Matrix.

(Sometimes eery how accurate those dystopian metaphors can be,
ain't it?)

Cheers, nevertheless ;-P
- -- tomás
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Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Reco]

Hi.

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl

Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it.

youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i
prefer it.

Reco

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Jude DaShiell]

apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Reco 
wrote:



Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 04:24:30
From: Reco <recovery...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: youtube error msg & html5
Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:24:49 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Hi.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 05:34:52PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:

Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.???



 Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
 available


Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense and
many of the answers are very old  The youtube screen points me to a page
about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the problem..


It's nuts...  Thanks in advance...


apt-get install youtube-dl






--

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Reco]

Hi.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 05:34:52PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote:
> Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.???
> 
> 
> 
>  Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
>  available
> 
> 
> Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense and
> many of the answers are very old  The youtube screen points me to a page
> about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the problem..
> 
> 
> It's nuts...  Thanks in advance...

apt-get install youtube-dl

Re: youtube error msg & html5

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 12/09/17 09:34, Whit Hansell wrote:

Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.???
  Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
  available
Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense 
and many of the answers are very old  The youtube screen points me 
to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the 
problem..


What browser and version, and what YouTube URL?

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

youtube error msg & html5

[Whit Hansell]

Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.???



 Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats
 available


Thanks.   I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense 
and many of the answers are very old  The youtube screen points me 
to a page about firefox and html5 but I can't find out how to fix the 
problem..



It's nuts...  Thanks in advance...

whit