Next steps
- integrate the test reports below and the next steps they suggest as part of this roadmap
- wait a bit for ?smtube to mature; if it's acceptable and merged, then perhaps we will consider the easier YouTube task as completed.
- ?benchmark YouTube HTML5 addons
- make audio and video codecs autoplay (so that the Tails web browser works in a less surprising way, especially for new users; also, the idea is that when one goes to a page with audio or video objects, they want to read them more often than not)
Alternatives
- ?Flash support
- YouTube Video Download for Greasemonkey
Background
Test reports
Out-of-the box YouTube support in Tails 0.18
With Tails 0.18, I visited one of the featured videos on youtube which is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_eKGK4JrM.
At first it gave me the usual msg flash player, then I added
&html5=1
on the URL and refreshed the page. It worked as it should
be no issues. After that, most of the videos played out of the box
without the &html5=1
that where on the right side as
featured/similar.
I can reproduce this with 0.19. However, one still has to click-to-play their way through the "Additional plugins [...]" message. --intrigeri
From one of them I got the msg "The browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available."
Later I entered https://www.youtube.com/html5 where I verified that my browser does not support h.264, also I had the msg "You are not currently in the HTML5 trial." Hope that helps.