Opera 10.52 problems with H264 video not loading on html5 pages in Ubuntu 9.10

Opera 10.52 problems with H264 video not loading on html5 pages in Ubuntu 9.10

I've been trying to work out what has been causing this problem for a while now and would be most grateful if anyone could help me sort it out.

Basically when I try to load up a youtube page using html5, it does not play or appear to load the video at all and is stuck on the loading animation. Ogg videos however seem to work perfectly (e.g. the videoforeveryone test page seems to work). I haven't been able to try out html5 video using h264 on any other websites as I only know of vimeo which won't let me access its html5 beta. According to synaptic I have base, good, bad, ugly and ffmpeg packages for gstreamer. I've been able to use inspect element to grab the video files themselves from youtube and those are playable in totem so I'm fairly sure that I have the necessary gstreamer plugins (I'm using 2.28 which I believe no longer uses xine for its backend). I've been using the tar.bz2 of build 6273 so that I can run it without overwriting my 10.10 profile.

YouTube seems to serve me Flash despite youtube.com/html5 saying "You are currently in the HTML5 beta."

I can't find any place to test H.264 video, all the examples seem to be Ogg.

hmm a lot of the videos do that for me as well, I think the reason is that youtube can't put advertising on html5 videos and they're a lot easier to download and save. This should hopefully load as html5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZqx30OvVs&feature=related The only other possible problems I can think of are it could be because of your regional settings though I doubt that, or youtube may forget that you are using html5 e.g. if you don't have cookies turned on.

I've got cookies turned on, and as I said, youtube.com/html5 very aptly says when I've got it turned on or off. Build 6273 just keeps receiving the Flash.

Strangely enough it does load (or rather, fail to load) in Chromium.

Firefox says "your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available."

If I use http://extendopera.org/userjs/content/download-youtube and download the high quality, is that the same kind of video that YouTube otherwise serves (as in I could set up a local testcase)?

Edit: tried 6272 again and in that Opera does get the HTML5 stuff and it'll remain endlessly loading, just like in Chromium.

I've also got the non-free gstreamer ffmpeg plugins installed and everything.

It seems to me that YouTube is just messing about too much with all kinds of weird scripts and whatever.

I'm using Opera (currently version 6312) on Kubuntu 9.10 64bit and I'm not able to play any videos embedded with <video> tag. I have all mentioned packages installed (gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and others) but still no video even on reference pages from Opera labs articles encoded using Theora codec.

All I get on a page with a video file are video controls but image or sound and even the total length is always 0:00.

Can someone think of a reason why this is happening?

I did load Youtube html5 content in Opera. Search for "youtube html5", click join. Then start playing until find a html5 version video. Sometimes doesnt play only if the page is reloaded, sometimes plays after 10-15 seconds.

The player interface works only 50% - the sound control is usable (albeit it doesnt show level feedback on the vertical meter), the rabbit and turtle (speed control?), the quality selection and the full screen switch dont work. The thing is that i hover with the mouse over the button that shows the rabbit and turtle or the quality selection - the controls appear but in the instance the cursor leaves the small button, the little menus dissappear. Some small elements from the player are misplaced.
Seeking works for 1-2 times then the whole video freezes and wont play anymore.
CPU load is the same as for flash, sometimes higher (jumps to 100%, sometimes remains there) - the only difference is that there is no memory overhead in form of flash plugin (in html5 case the opera process eats CPU, not the pluginwrapper).

Not usable in this form. And not all movies have html5 version.

I use Debian Squeeze (Gnome). I have tons of gstreamer codecs installed.

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Having the same problem.
It very occasionally works, and then the player is completely deformed.
I'm blaming Youtube since it varys so much in the same build/sometimes doesn't work in Chrome etc.

The html5 feature is in beta. Many videos dont even have html5 versions. Lets see when it will be finished...