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This sounds like something that might be good for the newly forming
multimedia team to work on. As Yuvi pointed out (off the wikitech-l list):
"There are also unresolved codec issues with playing videos (no H264
support), so even if we do enable video playback it'll not be
available everywhere, and even in places where it is it is going to be
a biggish battery sink (no hardware decoding support). Would want to
consider that before enabling it fully."
I envision the mobile team helping to support this, but folks who focus on
multimedia-related stuff would probably be the best candidates for digging
into this and figuring out how we can best move forward.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to see videos working on mobile
Yet there seems to be two issues here.
1) Cleaning up MobileFrontend code
We are stripping the ogg_player by parsing and cleaning up the HTML
We could probably do this in css/javascript instead.
2) Making videos work on mobile where supported
If we were to explore enabling videos on mobile we would have to look
at the ogg player javascript code associated with it and get it
working on mobile or create our own code that knows how to read it.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler
I'm also concerned about the size of the javascript module and since
it is not needed by every page I would argue that it should only be
loaded when the video is clicked (the existing extension may do this
or not I'm not clear):
https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FOggHandler/895f74e6…
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was
decided that we're not
ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And
stripped very crudely, by removing just #ogg_player_1 and
#ogg_player_2 so that only first two videos on a page were removed.
What are your opinions - shoudld we continue doing this?
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