Ubuntu
webkit2gtk package

Solid black videos with webkit2gtk built with gstreamergl

Bug #1753551 reported by Jeremy Bícha
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WebKit
Invalid
Medium
webkit2gtk (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 18.04 pre-beta
webkit2gtk 2.19.91
gstreamer 1.13.1

Ubuntu had to use -DUSE_GSTREAMER_GL=OFF because gstreamergl was in gstreamer's bad plugins which are excluded from Ubuntu's default install. Since Ubuntu 18.04 recently got gstreamer 1.13.1 which moved gstreamergl into the base set, I built webkit2gtk without that option.

Now, videos show up as solid black

1. with the GNOME help app yelp showing the GNOME Getting Started videos, and

2. with YouTube in Epiphany 3.27.90

My test build was done at
https://launchpad.net/~jbicha/+archive/ubuntu/webkit1/+packages

Tags: bionic
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Turns out this is fixed if you just install gstreamer1.0-gl.

But that package depends on graphene which is in universe. See LP: #1753581

Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in webkit-open-source:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Invalid
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This will be fixed in two ways. On Debian, we'll recommend (or maybe depend) on gstreamer1.0-gl.

On Ubuntu, we had to go back to building without gstreamergl because of graphene not being in main yet.

Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
tags: removed: block-proposed
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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