Since the switch from OggHandler to TimedMediaHandler we are one step
closer to supporting video on mobile browsers.

In fact, there's one it works in now -- Firefox for Android!

We've been able to close out this Firefox evangelism bug about our broken
mobile video:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728486

However, every other mobile browser I've tested doesn't support Ogg Theora
or WebM formats. Mobile Safari, Chrome, the old stock Android browser,
Opera Mobile, and the IE 10 engine in our Windows 8 tablet app will show
the thumbnail, but won't play the video because they need MP4/H.264.


Looking at the bug for adding transcoding...
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39869
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/25473/
...it looks like we may have support ready to go but disabled by default,
so not yet in use.


Just thought I'd check in on what it'll take to get it going. No immediate
rush, but.... I'd really love to have videos working on smartphones and
tablets, and not everybody runs Firefox. :)

-- brion
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