I'm not sure if MediaWiki has the capability to support mp4 playback in Safari at this time. Pinging Brion.
Pine On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 9:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Thanks you in advance for reading this post and any assistance! :) > > I'm attempting to view/replay a .mp4 video file that has been uploaded > into my wiki using Mediawiki 1.25 thru the img_auth.php process on Safari > on a Mac. The video player "becomes visible" and says "loading" but the > content never plays. The file appears and plays just fine in Chrome, IE, > and Firefox. So my question is has anyone else run into this issue and/or > why would this be an issue just for safari? On a related note, I stuck my > video file in one of my web accessible extension directories and the video > file plays just fine on all browsers. So I'm thinking there's something in > img_auth.php, but not sure. > > So details to test/recreate: > - Simple/small .mp4 file: (e.g. TestVideo.mp4) > - Mediawiki v1.25 > - Mac: v10.10.5 > - Safari: v9.0.2 > > Test steps: > 1) In my Wiki I use the Special:Upload page to upload my TestVideo.mp4 to > the wiki. The result is two links like so: > - http://server/MyWiki/index.php/File:TestVideo.mp4 and > - http://server/MyWiki/img_auth.php/d/da/TestVideo.mp4 > > If you go directly to the second link, the video plays fine in IE, Chrome, > and Firefox but not in Safari. > > A follow up test: > 1) I manually uploaded my TestVideo.mp4 to a random extension directory > (since that was web accessible outside of img_auth.php) such as: > - http://server/MyWiki/extensions/MyExtension/videos/TestVideo.mp4 > > And this link plays the video just fine on all browsers. > > So does anyone have any thoughts (or solutions on how to fix) why > img_auth.php is doing something that isn't properly playing the .mp4 video > on Safari, but works on the other browsers? > > Thank you again for the assistance! > Regards, > Kevin Forbes > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
