1235222 - porn.com videos not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[jukaru]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20151221130713

Steps to reproduce:

Porn.com change default player to html5. On Windows XP not working any video. On all videos display warning: Video File Not Found. After change user agent to Firefox 29, all videos play on flash. Firefox 30 and more not play videos on Windows XP, because html5 on site not supported

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

You need to report the issue to porn.com; and that they should check canPlayType rather than assume that all platforms can play html5 videos.

(there are no software decoder on Windows XP, it's only available from windows vista)

Comment 2

[jukaru]

I reported the problem to the following address : http://netsirkmedia.com/contact.html but a few days of no response. The problem is serious, because XP users may be deprived of the use of many similar sites. For example Vimeo , Dailymotion and Facebook and many others are still operating on the flash, but anytime i can stop working. Facebook went on HTML5 , but for me everything is still in a flash . Please note also on the XP system in the future for Firefox, because this system is still used by millions of people worldwide.

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

The problem is with the website. They can test what the platform support and use what's available.
h264 and aac decoders aren't available Windows XP. It is wrong from the website to simply assume a format is available.
That is why you find that all those web sites are using Flash with Windows XP.

Note that soon, we will have an alternative and be able to decode h264 and aac on Windows XP (bug 1210231). 

In the mean time, it's up to them to fix their web site, or use another format (like the open vp9 / opus)