YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
11 Oct 2011, 09:45
by ppietro
Hi everyone,
Working on the PS3 tonight, I ended up heading over to YouTube to check something.
Lo and behold, when I went to an individual video page, something loaded. In fact - it looked remarkably like a regular YouTube Flash video - with arrows and everything.
So - I figured - let's click the play button for laughs and watch it fail.
Instead - it played.
Now - this is a build of Gnash 0.8.7 I compiled myself. I'm not sure what the current version in the ps3bodega repos is.
Can anyone else confirm or deny this?
NOTE: I have greasemonkey installed, but since they haven't updated YouTube Without Flash Auto in ages, I have it turned off.
Cheers,
Paul
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
11 Oct 2011, 16:53
by billb
I believe I just have 0.8.2 -- haven't really looked into updating it since I figured it wouldn't work, but this is interesting now ...
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
12 Oct 2011, 00:16
by ppietro
Just a note: The video performance isn't stellar - pretty low framerates. Kind of like when you try to playback h.264 video.
But - it's working - even the video position bar.
Cheers,
Paul
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
12 Oct 2011, 16:29
by billb
Is it much of a pain to build as far as dependencies for YDL 6.2?
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
12 Oct 2011, 21:48
by ppietro
billb wrote:Is it much of a pain to build as far as dependencies for YDL 6.2?
Honestly, I can't remember.
Luckily, our board can.
Here's the build switches I used:
./configure --enable-gui=gtk --enable-media=ffmpeg --disable-speex --with-plugins-install=systemSome source is here:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.7/ ... 8.7.tar.gzHere's a link to CronoCloud's original post on getting it working:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5641#p30402And a link to one of my build sessions:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7143&start=0#p36618If you have the Gnash RPM installed, you might want to remove it first.
It appears to build using standard devel RPMs - I don't think you need to custom build anything. I do remember it taking about an hour though.
Cheers,
Paul
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
13 Oct 2011, 17:02
by billb
OK then, I'll try building it on the PowerMAC tonight.
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
14 Oct 2011, 17:35
by billb
I left it building gnash 0.8.7 this AM ... will see if it finished this evening. I used a src.rpm from 0.8.5 and modified it slightly. If it builds OK and works I can add it to ps3bodega.
Re: YouTube is working again? (Gnash 0.8.7)
Posted:
15 Oct 2011, 01:41
by billb
Built OK and Youtube no longer tells me I need a plugin, but it hangs when I try to play a video. minitube isn't working properly with my ISP either, though, so it could just be something odd going on there. Planning on fixing that in the next week or so, though...