Black Youtube videos in Midori

cpcnw · 2016-07-06 08:58

Hi, just installed midori on my Rpi3 as konquerer fails on some tasks.

From the cli I did ;

# sudo apt-get install midori

It seemed to install ok but as per subject I get an error on Youtube vids 'An error occured. Pleaser try again later'

It does this on every single vid I try although the thumbnails are fine. Do I need an extra package? Webkit1?

Last edited by cpcnw (2016-07-06 14:19)

cpcnw · 2016-07-06 14:14

http://midori-browser.org/faqs/ says

HTML5 Video/ Audio doesn't play
Midori uses GStreamer for HTML5 audio and video support. Codecs, which handle particular formats of audio or video, are provided by GStreamer plugins which may need to be installed separately. Midori may be built with GTK+2 or GTK+3 (visit about:version to check), which correspond to GStreamer versions of 0.10 or 1.0 respectively.

You need gstreamer(0.10/1.0)-pulse if you're using PulseAudio.
You may need gstreamer(0.10/1.0)-alsa for ALSA, depending on your distribution.
You need plugins for Theora, gstreamer(0.10/1.0)-base and MPEG-4 incluing aac (e.g. gst-plugins-faad), gstreamer(0.10/1.0)-bad. For WebM, you'll need plugins for vorbis (-base), matroska (-good), and vp8 (-bad). Have a look at http://www.gstreamer.net/documentation/plugins.html for details.
For Youtube or Vimeo, you need WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20 or newer.

This is the output of my about:version

Version numbers in brackets show the version used at runtime.
Command line midori
Midori 0.4.3
WebKitGTK+ 1.8.1 (2.4.9)
GTK+ 2.24.10 (2.24.25)
Glib 2.32.4 (2.42.1)
libsoup 2.38.1
cairo 1.12.2 (1.14.0)
libnotify 0.7.5
libunique 1.1.6
libhildon No
Platform X11; Linux armv7l
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/535+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/535.22+ Midori/0.4
Video Formats H264: true Ogg Theora: true WebM: true

So, no mention at all of gstreamer. If I do a ;

# sudo apt-cache search gstreamer

I get a huge list and havent a clue about which to actually install?

#$ dpkg --get-selections | grep gstreamer

gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:armhf install
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:armhf install
gstreamer1.0-x:armhf install
libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:armhf install
libgstreamer1.0-0:armhf install

I assume that 'install' means already installed?

# sudo dpkg -l | grep gstreamer

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:armhf 1.4.4-2 armhf GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:armhf 1.4.4-2 armhf GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
ii gstreamer1.0-x:armhf 1.4.4-2 armhf GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:armhf 1.4.4-2 armhf GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer1.0-0:armhf 1.4.4-2 armhf Core GStreamer libraries and elements

This URL https://www.youtube.com/html5 says;

What does this browser support?
HTMLVideoElement: Yes
H.264: Yes
WebM VP8: Yes
Media Source Extensions: No
MSE & H.264: No
MSE & WebM VP9: No
The HTML5 player is currently used when possible.

Last edited by cpcnw (2016-07-06 14:35)

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Black Youtube videos in Midori

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