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Vimb - the vim like browser is a webkit based web browser that behaves like the vimperator plugin for the firefox and usage paradigms from the great editor vim. The goal of vimb is to build a completely keyboard-driven, efficient and pleasurable browsing-experience.
https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/
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Unable to view content from the LBRY protocol (lbry.tv / odysee.com) #647

Closed VictorAlbertsson closed 3 years ago

VictorAlbertsson commented 3 years ago

vimb --bug-info

Version: 3.6.0 WebKit compile: 2.26.2 WebKit run: 2.30.2 GTK compile: 3.24.13 GTK run: 3.24.23 libsoup compile: 2.68.3 libsoup run: 2.72.0 Extension dir: /usr/lib/vimb

Steps to reproduce

Go to lbry.tv or odysee.com and click on a video

Expected behaviour

Video plays

Actual behaviour

Media player reports: "No compatible source was found for this media"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

iamleot commented 3 years ago

Hello Victor,

Victor Albertsson writes:

[...]

Steps to reproduce

Go to lbry.tv or odysee.com and click on a video

Expected behaviour

Video plays

Actual behaviour

Media player reports: "No compatible source was found for this media"

Any help would be greatly appreciated. [...]

Probably some gstreamer plugins needed not installed.

I can play videos on lbry.tv here with the following gstreamer plugins installed (output of `pkg_info' on NetBSD with pkgsrc, but other package systems probably have similar packages):

% pkg_info | grep gst gstreamer1-1.16.2nb2 Open source multimedia framework gst-plugins1-libav-1.16.2nb3 GStreamer libav/ffmpeg plugin gst-plugins1-base-1.16.2nb4 Open source multimedia framework - Base plugins gst-plugins1-good-1.16.2nb1 Open source multimedia framework - Good plugins gst-plugins1-oss-1.16.2nb1 Open source multimedia framework - oss plugin

VictorAlbertsson commented 3 years ago

Thank you iamleot, the Arch Linux packages i needed to install where gst-libav and gst-plugins-good.

gst-plugins-good is described by pacman as an optional dependecy for webkit2gtk for media decoding and gst-libav for nonfree media decoding, it would probably be a good idea to add these packages to the README dependencies section since most users will expect media to work out of the box.