798769 - Unable to play video on mobile Novinky.cz and Super.cz

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Pavel Franc - Mozilla.cz]

Flash video plays normally in default Android browser. In Firefox it shows only message about "Video not available for this device".

Comment 1

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

server-side sniffing will send either a <video> tag or a simpler page with a "video not available" message.

This UA string triggers video content:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; nb-no; HTC_One_X Build/IMM76D) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30
..and it seems they look for specific device keywords, like in this case "HTC_One_X".

Comment 2

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

super.cz demo:

http://m.super.cz/202174-tahle-rozkosna-blondynka-je-dcerou-martina-maxy-nejsvalnatejsi-cesky-zpevak-poprve-vyvedl-sve-deti.html

Pretty much same implementation (including looking for same token in UA) but serves a <a href="/video?sznu=
80MrrgjuZd9BjO43&amp;id=2341033" style="display:block;"><
span class="play"></span> .. tag instead of an embedded <video> to "supported" devices.

Are super.cz and novinky.cz run by the same company? If yes, having one bug to cover both may be OK - if not, a separate bug should be filed for super.cz

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Seznam.cz runs these two sites plus sport.cz https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798770.

Comment 4

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Firefox OS is getting served basic mobile version for the group of sites. Firefox Android looks to be getting sent to the main site which is responsive. Firefox Android also plays videos on some of the sites depending on the source video. As Hallvord mentioned they are looking for device names in the UA string.

I reached out to the Business Department ([e-mail]), the main site has an option for English. Will see if we get a response.

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Response: try the live chat support, I was in the queue but it closed at 16:30. Will try again.

Comment 7

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Another bug for this group of sites: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795088

Comment 8

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

tested today still the same.

Comment 9

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Seems OK now with Firefox for Android. Pavel, can you please confirm?

Unfortunatelly with Firefox OS I am able to play only Sport.cz and Super.cz videos, not Novinky.cz.

Comment 10

[Pavel Cvrcek [:JasnaPaka]]

Yes I can confirm that.

Comment 11

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

(Do we have a separate bug for novinky.cz video problems on FxOS? Let's not loose track of that problem :))

Comment 12

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Of course - bug 1182858. Sorry to have nagged you :)