GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 743184
problem with video playback
Last modified: 2015-05-07 12:43:14 UTC
This video does not play nicely on my debian 8 system with epiphany 3.14.1: http://urchn.org/post/the-making-of-user-lib The sound stops after a few seconds and the video is not continuous. The video plays nicely on firefox.
Hi, this video plays fine for me. Could you please right click on the video, Save Video As, and try playing it with Videos (totem)? Let us know if it works in Videos or if it breaks. Also please post the version of gstreamer that you are using (e.g. by running 'gst-inspect-1.0 --version').
The video plays fine in totem. I both have the 0.10.23 and 1.4.4 versions of gstreamer installed so I am not sure which one is used in epiphany. 'gst-inspect-1.0' is not available on my system. How can I install it?
1.4.4 is in use. (In reply to comment #2) > 'gst-inspect-1.0' is not available on my system. How can I install it? You don't need it, that was just a trick to find the version of gstreamer you have installed. So, since totem can play the video fine, I guess the issue is in WebKit and not gstreamer as I expected. Unfortunately that means we have to switch Bugzillas. Can you please report this bug at bugs.webkit.org, and post a link to it here? Thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This is most likely a bug in WebKit. Please report the bug to https://bugs.webkit.org/ including a link to this bug report and noting the WebKit version/revision number. When reporting the WebKit bug, be sure to include the prefix '[GTK]' in the bug summary and set the 'Gtk' keyword on your report.
The related webkit bug is here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140629
In the WebKit bug, Frédéric reported that the video doesn't work in Totem either, so reassigning to GStreamer. But note that neither I nor Philippe were able to reproduce the issue.
I just tested on Epiphany 3.16 gst 1.4.5. This works nicely, even better on git master. What is expected from the GStreamer team here ?
Works fine for me on debian sid with epiphany 14.1 and gstreamer 1.4.4. Hard to say what the problem is in your case. Michael, can you advise the bug reporter how to collect a GST_DEBUG log using epiphany?
Just run from the command line with GST_DEBUG in the environment: $ GST_DEBUG=6 epiphany (I have no idea if 6 provides the right amount of debug -- too little or way too much -- though.)
And now for some reason the video works on my system... I am closing the bug and I will re-open it if I encounter it again.