youtube: video format detection problems; video reload problem.

[onlyjob]

Debian user reported format detection problems on Youtube, please see details on the following page: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772421
Although reported for version 1.5.0 it seems that version 2.0.0 may be affected as well.

In regards to youtube video format detection may be youtube-dl can provide some inspiration?

Besides I've noticed that once video-without-flash is activated on youtube, clicking other videos do not reload embedded video. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

[odrevet]

Hi. I do not plan to maintain the video detection for sites that can play
video without flash.
When I started this project, the youtube HTML5 experiment only worked for a
few videos but now it seems to me that every video can be played natively.
On youtube comments and suggested video click do not works because it's in
AJAX.
I will eventually remove the youtube parser when no video will be detected
at all.

2014-12-18 9:23 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Smirnov [email protected]:

Debian user reported format detection problems on Youtube, please see
details on the following page:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772421
Although reported for version 1.5.0 it seems that version 2.0.0 may be
affected as well.

In regards to youtube video format detection may be youtube-dl
https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ can provide some inspiration?

Besides I've noticed that once video-without-flash is activated on
youtube, clicking other videos do not reload embedded video. Am I missing
something?

Thanks.

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#5.

[onlyjob]

Well then perhaps HTML5 module should be fixed to intercept youtube videos?
I'd love to use HTML5 player by default but I can't due to annoying autoplay (mis-)feature.
It would be very useful if this extension allow watching HTML5 youtube videos in video player as alternative to built-in-browser HTML5 media player...

[odrevet]

Since recently YouTube as turns into quite complex website, with ajax call
and regular updated to the inner layout. The YT HTML5 video player has a
video tag, but the source point to an id and the video is ultimately played
in a canevas.
Sorry but it's very unlikly that i'll dig more into the youtube code.

2014-12-20 6:34 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Smirnov [email protected]:

Well then perhaps HTML5 module should be fixed to intercept youtube videos?
I'd love to use HTML5 player by default but I can't due to annoying
autoplay (mis-)feature.
It would be very useful if this extension allow watching HTML5 youtube
videos in video player as alternative to built-in-browser HTML5 media
player...

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[SamB]

@odrevet Until such time as you remove the youtube stuff entirely, perhaps you should make it easier to tell when VWOF is attempting to operate on a given page? It took me a while to figure out that it was why I couldn't get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc to play, regardless of whether I chose the default player or the html5 one, and whether I had MSE enabled or not.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.5.0

Package version: 31.5.0esr-1~deb7u1

[onlyjob]

According to changelog youtube module is removed but apparently the module is still here: youtube.jsm.

Besides YouTube is still mentioned in README.md...

[odrevet]

The youtube module is now removed. Thanks for reporting