753425 - Fallback video container format options needed for videos on Dailymotion

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Gregory Jost]

Web page or screen you were on when you saw the issue:
dailymotion.com

Steps to reproduce:
1. Click any video on the site
2. Video seems to load but doesn't play

What you expected:
video playing...
(fwiw, it's working on chrome beta)

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

E/GeckoConsole( 2381): [JavaScript Warning: "HTTP "Content-Type" of "video/mp4" is not supported. Load of media resource http://www.dailymotion.com/cdn/H264-512x384/video/xqok89.mp4

Mozilla currently does not decode MP4 container format video. Dailymotion should provide fallback.

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost]

At OpenTheWeb in Opera, we noticed the same issue. We contacted them.

Dailymotion stopped making Ogg/webM videos and instead showed message "Unable to play this video in HTML5 player due to incompatible format - click here to view in Flash" to Opera and Firefox. Click here was broken and simply reloaded the page, with mp4 rather than Flash player.

To "fix" it, they've not got rid of the loop, but simply changed the message to simply say "Unable to play this video in HTML5 player due to incompatible format." "http://www.dailymotion.com/html5

So basically not a fix. I guess we need to unite our efforts on this to have a sensible user experience.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Fixed with OMXPlugin support (H.264).

Comment 5

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #4)
> Fixed with OMXPlugin support (H.264).

Indeed, it's fixed on the latest Nightly. Closing bug as verified fixed.

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Firefox 18.0a1 (2012-09-20)
Device: Galaxy Note
OS: Android 4.0.4