Ok. In the meantime, is there a way to make the text that I just added to the video caption, "(If you want to view this video on an Android device, you might need to install the Wikipedia app from the Google Play store <https://play.google.com> and then use the app to view the video.)", appear only when the page is being viewed on Android?
Pine On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > >
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