[qutebrowser] Youtube HTML5 video playback

Tony Power tony at witnessthepower.net
Thu Jun 9 20:15:08 CEST 2016


Hi Florian,

Thanks a lot for the suggestions -

> Maybe try installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly too?

I had missed this package. Installing it doesn't resolve the problem
unfortunately.

> If that doesn't help, maybe installing a newer Qt (and thus QtWebKit)
> from Debian testing could help. Jessie comes with 5.3.2 from
> September 2014, quite a bit happened since then ;)

I may give this a go when I get some time, thanks. If it works, I'll post
a reply.

> Another option is using an external player (like mpv) for youtube
> videos:
> https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/blob/master/FAQ.asciidoc
> (point 9)

This is a good solution, works for me!


Cheers,

Tony





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