New default web browser on KDE Spin

[Kevin Kofler]

Mustafa Muhammad wrote:
> With both of them it does not work here (tried F22 and Rawhide),
> unless you installed h264 decoder, it should not work, YouTube service
> HTML5 videos as VP9, VP8, or mp4, you can see by right clicking the
> video then click "Stats For Nerds", can you please tell us what is
> working for you.
> 
> I think Konq does not support any free video codec (VP9 or VP8),
> Firefox supports BOTH (but now YouTube only runs VP8 on Firefox
> because Google wants 'Media Sources Extensions' available to run VP9,
> and MSE support in Firefox is still experimental)

KWebKitPart uses GStreamer to decode videos. WebM (VP8, VP9) is supposed to 
just work. https://www.youtube.com/html5 also tells me that WebM VP8 is 
supported. (As for VP9, unfortunately, as you wrote, they apparently use it 
only with Media Source Extensions, which is currently NOT supported. But 
even Firefox is not enabling it by default, as you wrote.)

And there are GStreamer plugins for H.264 in RPM Fusion. Unfortunately, you 
will need them for other sites anyway. A lot of the web still refuses to use 
patent-unencumbered formats. :-( For some reason, YouTube seems to send 
H.264 over VP8 if both are supported.

        Kevin Kofler