Re: WebKit: Failing to play most HTML5 videos

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Hey,
>
> since a general update a week ago or so, it seems that I'm unable to
> play most HTML5 videos.  Youtube works.
> imdb.com fails, and so do most other websites with a similar error.
>
> Did something broke with gstreamer / gst-plugins?

Here’s what I tried:

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$ GST_DEBUG=2 eolie https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/a53e07/finally_redone_correctly/
[INFO] 2018-12-11 09:11:25 You need to set MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH to use plugins
0:00:08.868869189  6188      0x126cf20 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:233:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type trep
0:00:08.868943452  6188      0x126cf20 WARN                 qtdemux qtdemux_types.c:233:qtdemux_type_get: unknown QuickTime node type pasp
0:00:09.618668035  6188 0x7fc9a814e5e0 WARN             curlhttpsrc gstcurlhttpsrc.c:1068:gst_curl_http_src_handle_response:<curlhttpsrc0> Curl failed the transfer (60): SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK
0:00:09.618810492  6188 0x7fc9a814e5e0 WARN                 basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3055:gst_base_src_loop:<curlhttpsrc0> error: Internal data stream error.
0:00:09.618871820  6188 0x7fc9a814e5e0 WARN                 basesrc gstbasesrc.c:3055:gst_base_src_loop:<curlhttpsrc0> error: streaming stopped, reason error (-5)
0:00:09.619011634  6188 0x7fc9a814e5e0 WARN           uridownloader gsturidownloader.c:242:gst_uri_downloader_bus_handler:<uridownloader0> Received error: Internal data stream error. from curlhttpsrc0, the download will be cancelled
0:00:09.619497097  6188      0x1205f70 WARN                hlsdemux gsthlsdemux.c:655:gst_hls_demux_process_manifest:<hlsdemux0> error: Could not fetch media playlist: Internal data stream error.: gstbasesrc.c(3055): gst_base_src_loop (): /GstCurlHttpSrc:curlhttpsrc0:
streaming stopped, reason error (-5)

0:00:09.619593010  6188      0x1205f70 WARN           adaptivedemux gstadaptivedemux.c:677:gst_adaptive_demux_sink_event:<hlsdemux0> error: Invalid manifest.
0:00:09.746622376  6188       0xf9c830 ERROR      webkitmediaplayer MediaPlayerPrivateGStreamer.cpp:1180:handleMessage: Error 1: GStreamer encountered a general stream error. (url=webkit+https://v.redd.it/htlleai2qk321/HLSPlaylist.m3u8)
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This is a good hint: “Curl failed the transfer (60): SSL peer
certificate or SSH remote key was not OK”.  Gstreamer probably uses
libcurl, which does not honour any environment variables by default.  We
may have to patch this to allow users to override the location of the
cert bundle.

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Ricardo