Sunday, 4 December 2011

Vegas Baby!

Before: No video, because no Flash, and no MP4 support


After: Video, through Totem's Vegas plugin

Totem's new Vegas browser plugin provides you with a way to watch Flash based videos, without using Flash, using libquvi's growing collection of supported sites.

Code is available from GNOME git this instant. Be sure to pass --enable-vegas-plugin=yes to compile the plugin.
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8 comments:

  1. Mattias Bengtsson4 December 2011 at 18:31

    Nice! Does this work in Epiphany?

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  2. Bastien Nocera4 December 2011 at 18:34

    Mattias: Not currently working in Epiphany due to a WebKit/Clutter interaction problem, but that's a general Totem plugin problem, not specific to Vegas.

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  3. Kris4 December 2011 at 21:11

    This is SOOOO awesome!
    Does it work on Youtube - thats nearly the only flash-page i regularly visit... It would be so nice to throw out Flash-plugin.

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  4. Bastien Nocera5 December 2011 at 01:32

    Kris: The full list of supported sites is whatever quvi supports. The biggest problem might be embedded player for some websites (for example, if you embed the Guardian videos in another page, they just won't work). But looking at the original page should definitely work.

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  5. Anonymous5 December 2011 at 07:27

    Awesome!
    Make sure to update totem's package in fedora rawhide to support this :)

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  6. Anonymous9 June 2012 at 17:48

    Hi,

    I've just left Ubuntu for Debian Wheezy (GNOME 3.4 for the most part) and i can't figure how having Vegas.
    Maybe you could give me some advice ?

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  7. Jiří Janoušek31 July 2012 at 14:03

    antistress:

    > I've just left Ubuntu for Debian Wheezy

    Me too ;-)

    > i can't figure how having Vegas

    The commit with Vegas was made to a development branch for Totem 3.4, but up-to-date Debian Wheezy has Totem 3.0.1, so no Vegas. You can ask maintainers of Totem in Debian, why the Debian package lags two versions. My guesses are:

    * not enough man-hours
    * no success to provide newer versions for all architectures supported by Debian

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  8. Anonymous24 September 2012 at 04:08

    After
    sudo apt-get install -t experimental totem
    and
    sudo apt-get install -t experimental totem-mozilla
    i now run totem & totem-mozilla 3.4.2 (and libquvi-scripts 0.4.8)
    I've disabled Flash within Firefox (15.0.1) and totem-mozilla works well for Youtube H264 but not for Vimeo or Dailymotion whereas libquvi is supposed to support them... any idea ? Thanks in advance

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