Re: [Gnash-dev] Video problem with youtube HD?

[strk]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:19:24PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> I'm running gnash 0.8.5 as shipped with Ubuntu Jaunty.  When I go here:
> 
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oawX3wenxNc&feature=related
> 
> gnash has no trouble displaying the video.  But if I click the "HD"
> button, switching it to stream the same movie in higher definition,
> then after some initial hesitation it gets going, I get full audio,
> but no video.  Just a black window with the controls around it.

I've experienced this many times.

> However, if I then examine the saved HD file on the hard drive, "file"
> says it's "ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2", and it plays fine
> with "totem".  Totem's sidebar claims that the video is 1280 x 720,
> H.264 / AVC at 30 frames per second.  Looks great!

Could you check if the high-res video really needs clicking the
"HD" button or is used anyway ? I'm not sure about this cause
all these "HD-ready" videos do look high-res to me even before.

> At first when I encountered this "blank display in gnash" issue, I
> thought I had a codec problem.  But the codec to play this format is
> found without trouble by totem -- but not by gnash.

I'm not sure about this too, for a quick test you may link that video
from testsuite/square.flv and use
testsuite/misc-ming.all/NetStream-SquareTest.swf to check if it works.

My gut feeling is that the problem is in handling the mechanism by which
the "HD" button switches to another movie.

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