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Bug 607034 - NE: New extension to use the internal media player for youtube videos
NE: New extension to use the internal media player for youtube videos
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: epiphany-extensions
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: epiphany-extensions-maint
epiphany-extensions-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-14 22:52 UTC by Gustavo Noronha (kov)
Modified: 2010-01-28 17:59 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Attachments
new extension (21.92 KB, patch)
2010-01-14 22:52 UTC, Gustavo Noronha (kov) 		none Details | Review
HTML5Tube version that fools youtube into giving us the flash element (22.73 KB, patch)
2010-01-23 03:12 UTC, Gustavo Noronha (kov) 		none Details | Review

Description Gustavo Noronha (kov) 2010-01-14 22:52:56 UTC 
Created attachment 151434 [details] [review]
new extension

There's currently a caveat: youtube has to believe the flash player is installed, otherwise it won't give me. There is probably a way to fake it, or make its javascript believe there is flash, but I haven't tried it yet. For now, you really need a flash player installed.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-01-14 23:17:00 UTC 
The Totem plugin fakes to be all kinds of other plugins. Couldn't it fake being a Flash player as well?

(Great news btw, considering http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/13/youtube-kills-our-video-download-tool/ )
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2010-01-14 23:18:36 UTC 
oh dear. That's a story almost a year old. Probably not so relevant any more.
Comment 3 Gustavo Noronha (kov) 2010-01-14 23:31:44 UTC 
Yes, totem could potentially fake being the flash plugin for youtube specifically, but it would have to coordinate with the extension somehow, because we would only want that when using with the extension =).
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2010-01-17 22:28:06 UTC 
There's a separate bug about opening the youtube video directly in Totem's YouTube plugin, so it would show related videos, etc.
Comment 5 Gustavo Noronha (kov) 2010-01-23 03:12:56 UTC 
Created attachment 152062 [details] [review]
HTML5Tube version that fools youtube into giving us the flash element

This patch also fools youtube when flash is not there. I still plan to improve the extension to be more reliable, and use libgdata, but this seems like a good enough first cut.
Comment 6 Gustavo Noronha (kov) 2010-01-28 17:59:30 UTC 
Pushed as 229a4671a5310add7b03927a0946d033aa1bd207. Now we just need to improve it to work with every other flash video site =P.