Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by TopTrix » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 8:37 AM UTC

Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player
blog.wikimedia.org

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by rorrr » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 9:57 AM UTC

The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by padenot » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 10:42 AM UTC

rorrr wrote: post #2

The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2

(I'm a Firefox developer that happens to work on HTML5 audio and video).

I can reproduce your problem on Firefox 16.0.2 , and this is fixed, at least on our Nightly builds, perhaps before that. But it is certainly embarrassing and should not happen (and was not caught during our extensive testing and beta phases), I'll look into back porting the relevant patches.

Again, sorry about that.

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by rorrr » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 10:53 AM UTC

padenot wrote: post #3

rorrr wrote: post #2

The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2

(I'm a Firefox developer that happens to work on HTML5 audio and video). I can reproduce your problem on Firefox 16.0.2 , and this is fixed, at least on our Nightly builds, perhaps before that. But it is certainly embarrassing and should not happen (and was not caught during our extensive testing and beta phases), I'll look into back porting the relevant patches. Again, sorry about that.

Nothing to be sorry about, you guys are doing a great job. Bugs happen, bugs get fixed.

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by tvdw » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 11:51 AM UTC

Happy to see that a big site is finally starting to support WebM. I hope that they've chosen to not support h264, because of its proprietary nature?

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by TopTrix » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:13 PM UTC

padenot wrote: post #3

rorrr wrote: post #2

The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2

(I'm a Firefox developer that happens to work on HTML5 audio and video). I can reproduce your problem on Firefox 16.0.2 , and this is fixed, at least on our Nightly builds, perhaps before that. But it is certainly embarrassing and should not happen (and was not caught during our extensive testing and beta phases), I'll look into back porting the relevant patches. Again, sorry about that.

You are great guys. I would have never used internet if I didn't get Firefox.

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by TopTrix » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:14 PM UTC

tvdw wrote: post #5

Happy to see that a big site is finally starting to support WebM. I hope that they've chosen to not support h264, because of its proprietary nature?

As the post say, previously they were using Ogg player and now a complete open source player.

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by angry-hacker » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 12:32 PM UTC

rorrr wrote: post #2

The camel video barely plays in Chrome 23, froze my Firefox 16.0.2

Same here, the video just get stuck.. the whole video html element freezes...

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by loevborg » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:35 PM UTC

I liked this example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Feeling.ogv. It also showcases the subtitles feature of the player. It didn't play the first time I tried it (current stable Chrome on Ubuntu) but reloading helped.

Re: Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player

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Post by jkn » Fri, Nov 09, 2012, 1:36 PM UTC

Looks like Wikipedia is on track to become a big server of HTML5 WebM videos. The absence of H.264 support (assuming they hold on to that) might finally push Microsoft and Apple to support WebM out of the box. Maybe we will also see more hardware support for WebM in mobile devices...