1130633 - Video controls slow to respond and don't actually control video that auto played

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

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On the telegraph.co.uk site which gives me mobile version (great). 

Loaded up an article and started to read it. Suddenly, I hear a commentator! I swear a little because I am in bed trying not to wake my sleeping toddler or teething baby up.

I scroll down, find the culprit, and tap on pause. Controls are slow to respond so I tap repeatedly and harder. Finally it works. But the video keeps playing!! I have to exit the article to make it stop.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This seems to only be a problem with this specific Ooyala player on this site.

Comment 2

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Mike, sounds like a web-compat issue. What to have a look?

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Yeah, I can see the issue. It's kind of finnicky, sometimes the click on play/pause works, sometimes it needs 3 or 4 taps to do what I want. Looking closer...

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Digging into the ooyala v3 code at http://player.ooyala.com/v3/ZTIxYmJjZDM2NWYzZDViZGRiOWJjYzc5?platform=html5-fallback, I don't see anything that looks super alarming.

It *seems* like what is happening is when this bug happens, the touch/click events don't capture inside <div class="oo_controls_inner vod"></div>, which contains the play/pause buttons. It's strange... I'm going to see if I can reduce this to a testcase because it's a PITA to load 50 ads for every little tweak/test I try.

Comment 5

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Based on https://miketaylr.com/bzla/ooyala.html, I think this is closer to our bug than anything Ooyala or the site is doing. 

#playerwrapper .oo_mini_controls .oo_toolbar_item {
    /*default size:*/
    /*width: 16px;
    height: 16px;*/

    width: 30px !important;
    height: 30px !important;
}

When the pause/play buttons are 16px wide/high, we just don't hit them very much. If you bump that to 30px or larger, it works as expected and just like Chrome.

Aaron, can you move this to the right component?

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Sounds like we could work better if we tuned our "fuzzy hit testing" code to find something about the play/pause buttons to trigger our "send the tap to that element" code path.

Comment 7

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