Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:25:42 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:44:17 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] Could you please forward my bug report upstream? I don't have a github account and I cannot register an account on the issue tracker for each and every piece of software I use... Indeed. I asked upstream and he replied: Hi. I do not plan to maintain the video detection for sites that can play video without flash. When I started this project, the youtube HTML5 experiment only worked for a few videos but now it seems to me that every video can be played natively. On youtube comments and suggested video click do not works because it's in AJAX. I will eventually remove the youtube parser when no video will be detected at all. So according to upstream it is wontfix. OK, I see. Thanks a lot for getting in touch with the upstream developer(s). This is really appreciated. [...] Luckily we won't need anti-flash plugins on youtube much longer since they've made HTML5 player default, according to http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html Interesting, thanks for pointing it out. When a recent enough version of Iceweasel reaches Debian testing, I will benefit from this new YouTube HTML5 video default... Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ fsck is a four letter word... . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgpLi2K3r4wds.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:44:17 Francesco Poli wrote: You might be interested in another related extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-html5-switch/ Is it included in Debian? I failed to find the xul-ext-* package... No, last time I checked it was not in Debian... Can you reproduce the bugs I am experiencing? Please investigate them and fix them or, maybe, forward my report upstream. Please do not hesitate to discuss the matter with upstream. I rarely use this extension and I don't have time to get into details. Could you please forward my bug report upstream? I don't have a github account and I cannot register an account on the issue tracker for each and every piece of software I use... Indeed. I asked upstream and he replied: Hi. I do not plan to maintain the video detection for sites that can play video without flash. When I started this project, the youtube HTML5 experiment only worked for a few videos but now it seems to me that every video can be played natively. On youtube comments and suggested video click do not works because it's in AJAX. I will eventually remove the youtube parser when no video will be detected at all. So according to upstream it is wontfix. Luckily YouTube is making Luckily we won't need anti-flash plugins on youtube much longer since they've made HTML5 player default, according to http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html -- All the best, Dmitry Smirnov. --- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. -- H. L. Mencken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
Control: retitle -1 xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, most videos are undefined undefined Control: found -1 ideo-without-flash/1.5.1-1 On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:00:41 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:37:44 Francesco Poli wrote: I am giving it a try, but I am experiencing some issues. For instance, when trying to watch videos on YouTube, I seem to be completely unable to watch some of them. This is upstream issue. Besides even on Youtube some movies fail in native HTML5 mode so 100% compatibility is hard to achieve. Well, we are not speaking about 95 % compatibility, either. I would rather say that the compatibility (on YouTube) seems to be less than 10 %: the vast majority of the YouTube videos I tried to watch are completely unavailable with this extension enabled (while they can be watched without xul-ext-video-without-flash, by using browser-plugin-gnash). Please read notes (see link more from add-ons page), check README, Done, but I failed to find any useful tips, unfortunately. play with settings (try to disable HTML5 module, etc.) Disabling the HTML5 module seems to make things worse... I failed to find other settings that may help to improve the situation. and also remember to try new package version 1.5.1 (recently uploaded). Version 1.5.1 seems to fix the issue with partially shown videos: images are no longer shifted down and the controls are visible (so that I can adjust the volume!). Hence, the new version is a significant improvement, but does _not_ fix the issue with undefined undefined videos. You might be interested in another related extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-html5-switch/ Is it included in Debian? I failed to find the xul-ext-* package... Can you reproduce the bugs I am experiencing? Please investigate them and fix them or, maybe, forward my report upstream. Please do not hesitate to discuss the matter with upstream. I rarely use this extension and I don't have time to get into details. Could you please forward my bug report upstream? I don't have a github account and I cannot register an account on the issue tracker for each and every piece of software I use... Thanks for your time! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ fsck is a four letter word... . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgpNFthRs32BW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#772421: Processed: Re: Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
Control: notfound -1 ideo-without-flash/1.5.1-1 Control: found -1 video-without-flash/1.5.1-1 On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:48:07 + Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: found -1 ideo-without-flash/1.5.1-1 Sorry for the typo... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ fsck is a four letter word... . Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE pgpHAhHB2UI2X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 18:37:44 Francesco Poli wrote: I am giving it a try, but I am experiencing some issues. For instance, when trying to watch videos on YouTube, I seem to be completely unable to watch some of them. This is upstream issue. Besides even on Youtube some movies fail in native HTML5 mode so 100% compatibility is hard to achieve. Please read notes (see link more from add-ons page), check README, play with settings (try to disable HTML5 module, etc.) and also remember to try new package version 1.5.1 (recently uploaded). You might be interested in another related extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-html5-switch/ Can you reproduce the bugs I am experiencing? Please investigate them and fix them or, maybe, forward my report upstream. Please do not hesitate to discuss the matter with upstream. I rarely use this extension and I don't have time to get into details. https://github.com/odrevet/video-without-flash -- Best wishes, Dmitry Smirnov GPG key : 4096R/53968D1B --- Much of humankind's intellectual and emotional struggle has been not for truth, but against truth. The advance of science has been sporadically fought against for thousands of years. -- C. W. Dalton, The Right Brain and Religion signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially
Package: xul-ext-video-without-flash Version: 1.5.0-1 Severity: important Hello, thanks for packaging this possibly useful extension! I am giving it a try, but I am experiencing some issues. For instance, when trying to watch videos on YouTube, I seem to be completely unable to watch some of them. One example is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIj3kpPYh1M which shows that undefined undefined text in the black rectangle, and leads to the This page isn't available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else. error message, when clicked. Please note that, without the xul-ext-video-without-flash extension, I can watch the video (with gnash) flawlessly. Some other videos, such as for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK588zl0l2M seem to be watchable, but they are shown with images shifted down by almost half height (with a black bar on the top and the bottom part of the image not visible) and seem to lack a way to adjust the volume. Right-clicking and selecting Hide Controls/Show Controls from the context menu does not seem to change anything. Please note that, if I can watch videos belonging to this second category, by following the Open in a new tab link and then using the iceweasel support for the webm format (thus not using flash, I think...). Please also note that I have the xul-ext-noscript extension installed and enabled, but allowing all YouTube JavaScript to be interpreted does not make the issues vanish... Can you reproduce the bugs I am experiencing? Please investigate them and fix them or, maybe, forward my report upstream. Thanks for your time, bye. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xul-ext-video-without-flash depends on: ii iceweasel 31.2.0esr-3 xul-ext-video-without-flash recommends no packages. xul-ext-video-without-flash suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
