In regards to "unresolved codec issues", that is more a political/legal than a technical issues.
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler We haven't been using OggHandler for quite some time now (Since November 2012). We now use TimedMediaHandler extension. -bawolff On 6/24/13, Arthur Richards <aricha...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > +wikitech-l > > This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming > multimedia team to work on. As Yuvi pointed out (off the wikitech-l list): > > "There are also unresolved codec issues with playing videos (no H264 > support), so even if we do enable video playback it'll not be > available everywhere, and even in places where it is it is going to be > a biggish battery sink (no hardware decoding support). Would want to > consider that before enabling it fully." > > I envision the mobile team helping to support this, but folks who focus on > multimedia-related stuff would probably be the best candidates for digging > into this and figuring out how we can best move forward. > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I would like to see videos working on mobile >> >> Yet there seems to be two issues here. >> 1) Cleaning up MobileFrontend code >> We are stripping the ogg_player by parsing and cleaning up the HTML >> We could probably do this in css/javascript instead. >> >> 2) Making videos work on mobile where supported >> If we were to explore enabling videos on mobile we would have to look >> at the ogg player javascript code associated with it and get it >> working on mobile or create our own code that knows how to read it. >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler >> >> I'm also concerned about the size of the javascript module and since >> it is not needed by every page I would argue that it should only be >> loaded when the video is clicked (the existing extension may do this >> or not I'm not clear): >> >> https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FOggHandler/895f74e63fa9cadeba1df63604b0aaeae10f803c/OggPlayer.js >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.w...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not >> > ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And >> > stripped very crudely, by removing just #ogg_player_1 and >> > #ogg_player_2 so that only first two videos on a page were removed. >> > What are your opinions - shoudld we continue doing this? >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Best regards, >> > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mobile-l mailing list >> > mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Jon Robson >> http://jonrobson.me.uk >> @rakugojon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- -- - Brian Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
