646265 - Video does not play on NYTimes (html5 content) on Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Attachment: screenshot

Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110329 Firefox/4.2a1pre Fennec/4.1a1pre
Device: Droid 2 
OS: Android 2.2

1. go to http://video.nytimes.com/?src=vidm

Expected: video
Actual: "We're sorry.  This player is not enabled for HTML5 delivery"

Comment 1

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

Installed Phony and switched UA to Android. The content is still blocked. I really think this is a NYTimes bug and not ours, but I can't tell what they are sniffing.

Comment 2

[Stuart Parmenter]

nytimes only supports h264 iirc

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Moving to tech evangelism

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Installed Phony and switched UA to Android. The content is still blocked.

The OS/platform flags are almost certainly wrong, then, unless this bug also happens in Firefox 4.

(In reply to comment #2)
> nytimes only supports h264 iirc

If that's the case, then am I correct in summarizing the general TE issue as "Get the NYT to support something besides H.264 for <video>"? (Good luck with that, by the way.)

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The mobile is redirected to http://www.nytimes.com/video/?src=vidm
Selecting a video. And it's working.