Note that Youtube possibly requires its Cookies to be set or a matching User Agent to be set. A change was recently made to Phonon-Xine to correct this.

bcooksley wrote:Note that Youtube possibly requires its Cookies to be set or a matching User Agent to be set. A change was recently made to Phonon-Xine to correct this.

So will Youtube work in KDE 4.5?

In my limited testing, I wasn't able to find a video that was HTML5 enabled on Youtube even after switching on the beta option. Can someone point me to a video please so I can test?

bcooksley wrote:In my limited testing, I wasn't able to find a video that was HTML5 enabled on Youtube even after switching on the beta option. Can someone point me to a video please so I can test?

Here you go. Sorry for the late reply.

Just tested it and it didn't work. It was trying to use the WebM codec for some reason however ( which I know I most certainly don't have codecs for, at least in Xine hence why it doesn't work... ).

However, when I tested Firefox on their HTML5 Beta that totally failed, claiming support for their formats didn't exist.

When I tried with Phonon-VLC, it tried to send WebM again, and failed also.

Aw, that's too bad... I thought there was an option to choose WebM or x264, but I guess they removed it, so I guess there's no way to test that until WebM becomes available.

Speaking of Phonon, you said you have Phonon-VLC. I remember there being an MPlayer backend in the works - is it going to be available with KDE 4.5?

Don't know about Phonon-MPlayer, but in the case of Phonon-VLC, it will be shipping seperate to KDE 4.5. This is because some features have not been implemented, and it requires VLC 1.1, which hasn't been released yet.

We do use Kaltura which - as I understand this - uses html5 tags to display videos. This works under iceweasel but it does not work under konqueror (currently 4.4.4):
http://www.digital-chilli.de/main_bigwa ... -workbench

Martin