On Thursday, February 02, 2012 02:32:47 AM Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:40:05 PM Tim Stella wrote: > > > Does anybody else experience this too? > > > > Do videos on the youtube site itself work? I don't think that embedded > > videos will work with html5. > > Nope. tried the following(a trailor from a upcoming hindi movie), same > symptoms. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M97P3zoUIos&feature=g- > logo&context=G2fdb9b2FOAAAAAAABAA > > http://html5demos.com/video does not work either. I just get an incrementing > timer, no video border/progress bar either. with youtube, at least thats > available > > firefox plays both of them nicely.. I was researching further on this topic and stumbled across http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-December/017091.html Following it, I went to http://tinyvid.tv/ and I am able to play video's from that site in konqueror. So it is related to codecs. Hence I searched for gstreamer codecs that I didn't have. I installed the following additional packages gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins So the current set of installed gstreamer packages are local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.35-1 local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.35-1 local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.35-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.30-1 local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.30-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.22-1 local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.18-4 local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.18-4 (gstreamer0.10-plugins) local/phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1 Log in again and it works. Now I can play the phoronix embedded video, html5demos video and the youtube trailer I mentioned upthread. I think what I did was a broad hammer but it worked. May be these could be added as optional dependencies to qtwebkit? -- Regards Shridhar