We don't yet have fully "on purpose" multimedia support on mobile -- eg if
it works at all, that's awesome. :) But it's probably sub-ideal in a number
of ways. (On iOS in particular we have *no* playback except in the desktop
mode due to Safari's lack of native WebM or Ogg support; the ogv.js
JavaScript playback has only been integrated on the desktop mode so far, as
we need to clean up TimedMediaHandler's JS-side code to run cleanly on
mobile... and not suck on desktop.)

Questions:
* Are you viewing the File: page in a browser directly, or some page that
includes the file on it? (If the latter, which page?)
* Are you pressing the 'play' button on an image thumbnail, or clicking the
"download original file" link, or something else?
* What device are you using?
* What Android version are you running on?

General issues:
* There's no manual resolution selection override in the user interface, so
you might be getting a high resolution file that's too slow to decode.
* In Firefox in particular you may not be getting the benefit of hardware
acceleration for WebM video decoding.
* The 'Android default browser' may or may not exist on any given device
(many newer devices just have Chrome, so I can't test it locally on my
Nexus 5 or 5x).

There may or may not be any 'fixes' we can make in a short term. Note there
are *no* WMF resources assigned to video at present, so things get fixed
only as someone interested in the topic gets to them.

-- brion


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just tried playing the video on Android. Good news, bad news:
>
> The video plays as expected in the Wikipedia app.
>
> The video has major problems playing in Firefox for Android and the
> default Android browser for mobile web.
>
> Can someone else please test those latter two configurations? If problems
> are confirmed, how long will a fix take, keeping in mind how close we are
> (4,998,070 articles) to the 5M milestone?
>
> Pine
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