[gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[jdm]

Hello,

I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions?
They run fine in Firefox. 

John D Maunder

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[Mick]

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On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions?
> They run fine in Firefox.
> 
> John D Maunder

Are they flash or HTML 5 videos?  Are your plugins configured as they should 
be in Konqueror?

PS.  I don't think that there is a difference between webkit and khtml engines 
- it works with both fine here.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[jdm]

On Saturday 02 November 2013 16:31:21 Mick wrote:
>On Saturday 02 Nov 2013 00:02:26 jdm wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I cannot run any youtube videos with Konqueror. Any suggestions?
>> They run fine in Firefox.
>> 
>> John D Maunder
>
>Are they flash or HTML 5 videos?  Are your plugins configured as they
>should be in Konqueror?
>
>PS.  I don't think that there is a difference between webkit and khtml
>engines - it works with both fine here.

I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also 
dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get 
Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think 
this is flash. Using khtml.

I have gone on to other sites and some videos play. Its hist and miss. 
(100% failure on youtube). Its nice to now that it's working for you so 
I will try a few rebuilds and use flags perhaps.

I have tried both 32 and 64 flash (and all versions), with and without 
nspluginwrapper.

Its just an annoyance as I can play all with firefox. It's just that I 
want to be kde only for the time being.


John

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote:

> I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also 
> dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get 
> Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think 
> this is flash. Using khtml.

It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell it
you prefer HTML5 in your preferences.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When there's a will, I want to be in it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[Mick]

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On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote:
> > I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also
> > dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get
> > Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think
> > this is flash. Using khtml.
> 
> It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell it
> you prefer HTML5 in your preferences.

Yes, you can set up youtube cookies to recognise that you want to use HTML5 as 
Neil suggests, or if you still want to fix Konqueror to play flash videos you 
need to go in Konqueror settings/Plugins and click on "Scan for Plugins".  It 
should pick up what it needs as long as you have the right packages installed 
(like adobe flash).

In my installation(s) it shows /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so 
which on my system is a symlink to the adobe libflashplayer.so:

$ ls -la /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 Sep 14 10:12 
/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so -> /opt/Adobe/flash-
player/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so

The plugin in Konqueror would need to be associated with the correct MIME 
types like application/x-shockwave-flash and application/futuresplash, but all 
this should happen automatically when you scan for new plugins.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[Marc Joliet]

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Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 +0000
schrieb Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:

> On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote:
> > > I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube (also
> > > dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, as get
> > > Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I think
> > > this is flash. Using khtml.
> > 
> > It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell it
> > you prefer HTML5 in your preferences.
> 
> Yes, you can set up youtube cookies to recognise that you want to use HTML5 as 
> Neil suggests, or if you still want to fix Konqueror to play flash videos you 
> need to go in Konqueror settings/Plugins and click on "Scan for Plugins".  It 
> should pick up what it needs as long as you have the right packages installed 
> (like adobe flash).
[...]

In addition to that, you can also deactivate the Flash plug-in, in which case
YouTube switches to HTML5 once it notices that the Flash plug-in is missing (it
only fails if your browser does not support any of the formats the video is
available in). Recently I've gone over to using the FlashDisable extension for
Firefox to only activate Flash *temporarily* when I really need it.

Also, consider youtube-dl, which came recommended by a friend and has worked
wonderfully for me for a variety of sites (youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, etc.).

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Konqueror

[jdm]

On Sunday 03 November 2013 17:10:14 Marc Joliet wrote:
>Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 +0000
>
>schrieb Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
>> On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote:
>> > > I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube
>> > > (also
>> > > dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure,
>> > > as get
>> > > Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I
>> > > think
>> > > this is flash. Using khtml.
>> > 
>> > It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell
>> > it
>> > you prefer HTML5 in your preferences.
>> 
>> Yes, you can set up youtube cookies to recognise that you want to use
>> HTML5 as Neil suggests, or if you still want to fix Konqueror to
>> play flash videos you need to go in Konqueror settings/Plugins and
>> click on "Scan for Plugins".  It should pick up what it needs as
>> long as you have the right packages installed (like adobe flash).
>
>[...]
>
>In addition to that, you can also deactivate the Flash plug-in, in
>which case YouTube switches to HTML5 once it notices that the Flash
>plug-in is missing (it only fails if your browser does not support any
>of the formats the video is available in). Recently I've gone over to
>using the FlashDisable extension for Firefox to only activate Flash
>*temporarily* when I really need it.
>
>Also, consider youtube-dl, which came recommended by a friend and has
>worked wonderfully for me for a variety of sites (youtube, vimeo,
>soundcloud, etc.).
>
>HTH


Thanks for the advice. I got this to work by installing kde-
misc/kwebkitpart-1.3.1 and selecting webkit as default engine. Not sure 
why it won't work with khtml but as they say in Birmighman "ces't la 
vie" or something like that.

Thanks

John