Whenever I try to browse to a youtube video using the libwebkit2gtk library in Ubuntu 18 LTS, I'm met with a "Your browser can't play this video". I see that other browsers that use this library can play youtube content just fine (org.gnome.Epiphany).
Can someone point me in the right direction as to what I'm missing?
#include <webkit2/webkit2.h>
#include <gtkmm.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Application> app = Gtk::Application::create(argc, argv, "");
Gtk::Window window;
window.set_default_size(1280, 720);
WebKitSettings* settings = webkit_settings_new();
webkit_settings_set_enable_mediasource(settings, true);
WebKitWebView* one = WEBKIT_WEB_VIEW(webkit_web_view_new_with_settings(settings));
Gtk::Widget* three = Glib::wrap(GTK_WIDGET(one));
window.add(*three);
webkit_web_view_load_uri(one, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVnARGhhs9w");
window.show_all();
app->run(window);
return 0;
}
It turns out that I needed the gstreamer1.0-libav package installed. After I install this through apt, my program started playing youtube videos with no issue.
sudo apt install -y gstreamer1.0-libav