728486 - pressing on the play button for video does nothing on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

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

1. go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda
2. go down to the "Biology and behavior" and exppand that section
3. click on the play button for "Red panda gnawing"

Expected: video plays
Actual: does nothing

Note:
1. Occurs both on Nightly/MAPLE 02/17/2012; Samsung Galaxy S II 2.3 
2. Also occurs on MAPLE 02/17/2012; Galaxy Nexus 4.1

Comment 1

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

I expect

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This is fixed by the patch in bug 727817.

Comment 3

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

bug 727817 landed today; will check tomorrow.

Comment 4

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

still does not play.  Nightly 2/23/2012 Nexus Galaxy ; Nightly 2/23/2012 HTC Desire

Comment 5

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Hmm... that doesn't work in Desktop firefox either (spoofing Fennec 4.0 UA to get the mobile wikipedia site).

Comment 6

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

Woops.  Should have checked for that.  Move to evange?

Comment 7

[Brion Vibber]

This appears to be due to a bug on our end (Wikipedia): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30859

We're not properly initializing things for the video and audio players on our mobile view.

If you click through to the 'View this page on regular Wikipedia" link on the bottom of the page for the desktop view, the video should play (though slowly as it's 1080p!)

Comment 8

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Hirata-san, could you please test this again? According to Brion on the bugzilla wikimedia, this should be fixed now :-)

Thank you very much.

Comment 9

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

Perrier-san, the bug is not fixed : 
1. go to http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda  [either on fennec or with Fennec ua on desktop]
2. select show for "Conservation"
3. scroll down to "In captivity"
4. click on the play button

Expected: video to play
Actual: nothing happens.

Comment 10

[Jon Robson]

This is a problem MediaWiki's end and can be closed your end.
Currently ogg files are scrubbed on mediawiki's mobile site - this was due to some javascript not being ported from desktop to mobile yet

The scrubbing happens here:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend.git;a=blob;f=MobileFormatter.php;h=a93e0b45482b21f8a33e3f7db2c2bd58affee217;hb=HEAD#l54

Comment 11

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I have opened https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38305 to report that this is still broken.

Comment 12

[Brion Vibber]

These should actually work now; videos now export a <video> tag directly and should include Ogg Theora and WebM versions.

I can confirm that the Red Panda video shows up and plays on my Galaxy Nexus.

(Other browsers actually are now the hangup for video as most don't support Theora or WebM and we haven't got H.264 or MP4 transcodes going yet. Congrats on being the first browser to support mobile Wikipedia video! ;)

Comment 13

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Verified on my Galaxy S2.