On 27/08/2017 19:00, null wrote: > Mason83 wrote: >> On 27/08/2017 17:26, null wrote: >> >>> So you got that test video I referenced to play before it was removed by >>> the user, so you were able to get that info from the stats for geeks, >>> right? >> Correct. >> >>> In my case, that video, and others that won't play DO show some >>> geek info, but the line labelled "Mime type" shows no data. >>> The videos that DO play DO show that kind of data. >> Can you play this old video: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HtMHmyKZa0 >> >> It's video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401e" like the one you posted. > > Yes, I can play it, but the "Info for nerds" says "Mime type : video > webm codecs='vp8.0 vorbis". > > Now why would that differ from what you get, I wonder. One possibility > is that the Youtube error page seems to hint, although without making it > explicitly clear, that Youtube may provide the video in one of several > ways depending on what the viewer has available at their end. Do you > think that this accounts for the different in the details that we each get?
Interesting. It does make sense that Youtube is able to provide alternative streams for different platforms, based on their capability... But I had assumed that these old NBA videos had never been converted to WebM. Guess I was wrong. http://www.pcworld.com/article/225685/YouTube_Swiftly_Converts_Videos_in_WebM_Format.html https://youtube.googleblog.com/2011/04/mmm-mmm-good-youtube-videos-now-served.html I tried looking for old videos with few hits, maybe these have not been converted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JPITBuJjk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEvz394GWD4 Regards. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
