On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Rob Lanphier <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> I was able to play the WebM file of the locomotive on the front page >> of https://commons.wikimedia.org just now on my Nexus 7 using Chrome, >> so at least on very new stock Android devices, all is well. My much >> older Galaxy S didn't fare so well, though, so I would be willing to >> believe that Android devices with proper WebM support are still >> relatively rare. That said, the replacement rate for this hardware is >> frequent enough that it won't be long before my Nexus 7 is "much >> older". >> > I can play the current media on the front page of Commons in Chrome on my Nexus 7, but it won't play in position on either desktop < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Haroche> or mobile < http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Haroche> ... Sigh. :) Still some work to be done on compatibility... I also notice that the <source> elements in the <video> seem to start with the original, and aren't labeled with types or codecs. This means that without the extra Kaltura player JS -- for instance as we see it on the mobile site right now -- the browser may not be able to determine which file is playable or best-playable. This may be contributing to the rrreeeeaaalllyyy slow performance I see on our FirefoxOS test device -- which understands Ogg Theora and WebM but has no hardware acceleration for them, and a relatively slow processor. If it's pulling a 1920x1080 original to play on a 320x480 screen, it's going to be slower than it needs to be. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
