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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Testing webbrowser-app with oxide 1.20.4 on desktop, dailymotion.com
videos don't play (only display a black rectangle in place of the actual
video). They do work on mobile devices.

I’m seeing the following in the app's log:

[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
Vector smash protection is enabled.

So it appears that dailymotion is serving a flash video player instead
of an HTML5 video.

A simple UA override appears to do the trick.

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: ua-override

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Olivier Tilloy (osomon)

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Tags added: ua-override

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662826

Title:
  Videos don't play on dailymotion.com on desktop

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Testing webbrowser-app with oxide 1.20.4 on desktop, dailymotion.com
  videos don't play (only display a black rectangle in place of the
  actual video). They do work on mobile devices.

  I’m seeing the following in the app's log:

  [WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
  Vector smash protection is enabled.

  So it appears that dailymotion is serving a flash video player instead
  of an HTML5 video.

  A simple UA override appears to do the trick.

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