On Sunday 03 November 2013 17:10:14 Marc Joliet wrote: >Am Sun, 3 Nov 2013 10:42:17 +0000 > >schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: >> On Sunday 03 Nov 2013 10:17:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:41:54 +0000, jdm wrote: >> > > I think they are flash but I cannot play any video on youtube >> > > (also >> > > dailymotion). I thought youtube had gone html5 but not so sure, >> > > as get >> > > Could not load movie '/tmp/kde-john/konquerorPS4531.swf'. So I >> > > think >> > > this is flash. Using khtml. >> > >> > It may be that YouTube still defaults to flash and you have to tell >> > it >> > you prefer HTML5 in your preferences. >> >> Yes, you can set up youtube cookies to recognise that you want to use >> HTML5 as Neil suggests, or if you still want to fix Konqueror to >> play flash videos you need to go in Konqueror settings/Plugins and >> click on "Scan for Plugins". It should pick up what it needs as >> long as you have the right packages installed (like adobe flash). > >[...] > >In addition to that, you can also deactivate the Flash plug-in, in >which case YouTube switches to HTML5 once it notices that the Flash >plug-in is missing (it only fails if your browser does not support any >of the formats the video is available in). Recently I've gone over to >using the FlashDisable extension for Firefox to only activate Flash >*temporarily* when I really need it. > >Also, consider youtube-dl, which came recommended by a friend and has >worked wonderfully for me for a variety of sites (youtube, vimeo, >soundcloud, etc.). > >HTH
Thanks for the advice. I got this to work by installing kde- misc/kwebkitpart-1.3.1 and selecting webkit as default engine. Not sure why it won't work with khtml but as they say in Birmighman "ces't la vie" or something like that. Thanks John
