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Bug 600369 - YouTube plugin does not work
YouTube plugin does not work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: YouTube plugin
2.28.x
Other All
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
: 601703 605950 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-02 06:54 UTC by Robert Ancell
Modified: 2010-01-04 22:38 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Robert Ancell 2009-11-02 06:54:07 UTC 
Since at least 24 October the YouTube plugin does not seem to be able to play videos.

When selecting a thumbnail to play the following dialog is displayed:
"An error occurred
GStreamer encountered a general supporting library error."

Debugging shows the error is ffmpeg failing to play the flash video as the URL supplied by the plugin resolves to a short (1021 octet) file in compressed flash format which ffmpeg does not know how to decode.  This file is too short for the data required for a video - has the YouTube API changed?

An example URL is:
http://www.youtube.com/v/zCamLXgLB68?f=videos&c=ytapi-GNOME-Totem-444fubtt-1&d=RzbQn3dGC68p3mWFCLHsfmD9LlbsOl3qUImVMV6ramM&app=youtube_gdata

Reported in Ubuntu
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/459423
Comment 1 Philip Withnall 2009-11-03 12:16:33 UTC 
Fixed on master and gnome-2-28.

commit 95b56216aee80c7e95d0e7d033ff8e1a63852813
Author: Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 3 12:12:53 2009 +0000

    Bug 600369 — YouTube plugin does not work
    
    Fixed the regex to correctly extract the t param for YouTube video
    queries again. Closes: bgo#600369

 src/plugins/youtube/totem-youtube.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-11-12 14:55:54 UTC 
*** Bug 601703 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2010-01-04 22:38:19 UTC 
*** Bug 605950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***