On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm guessing this is on > https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_5_million_articles_milestone_video_October_2015.webm > ... > whhops copy-paste error :D https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_million_articles -- brion > > ... in which case the problem is that inline/thumbnail usages of videos by > default use a 'popup transform' that -- until currently desktop-only > JavaScript is loaded -- is just a thumbnail image plus a link to the > original file. (The code for the proper player is hidden away where it can > be loaded into a popup window by the JS.) > > This is pretty awful on mobile at present, as the thumbnail does nothing > when you click on it, while there's a 'play media' link that sends you to > the highest-resolution file you could possibly download. This means you're > trying to play a full HD 1920x1080 video from the original VP9 source, > which while a great format can be somewhat CPU-intensive. > > > I have some planned refactoring that should improve this by including a > stripped-down player inline for the mobile/non-JS cases, but beware it > wouldn't get deployed until sometime mid to late next week even if we hurry > it. (We do not deploy on Fridays or weekends!) > > -- brion > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Multimedia mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia >>> >>> >> >
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