Congratulations, Brion! Your great progress with video on unsupported platforms is really impressive :)
Thanks for leading the charge on this front, much appreciated ... Fabrice On Jul 20, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145756/ > > Here's a wiki running the patch with some sample files: > https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/ > > Status update: > * Resolution switching is now available > * Automatic selection of 160p or normal-sized source based on a JavaScript > microbenchmark[1] > * Fixes for JavaScript player in iOS 7 Safari (desktop view) > * Added IE 9 support with Flash player version[2] > * Switched IE 10/11 to use the Flash version for more consistent performance > on low-end machines[3] > > I hope to do some work on integration into MobileFrontend during Wikimania, > probably with a temporary lightweight UI. If interested in helping or > testing, come bug me during the hackathon in person or via IRC! > > > [1] The benchmark heuristic for overriding source selection logic is pretty > hacky, but gets playback working on more of my slower test devices while > usually defaulting the faster ones to larger sizes. > > [2] I'm not sure if IE 6/7/8 support is possible; the player JS in > TimedMediaHandler doesn't seem to initialize. Not sure if it's blacklisted or > if I've just failed the detection logic somewhere. > > [3] IE 10/11 can run the entire decoder and video playback in JavaScript but > require a Flash shim for audio; the combination of JS and Flash adds some > overhead versus running all in Flash, especially on older or slower machines. > Note that IE's developer status pages indicate Web Audio support is "in > development", so a future IE version should drop the Flash requirement. Until > then... I find decoding free formats in Flash very satisfying somehow. :D > > > In the process I've noticed several issues with TimedMediaHandler and its > dependencies when running on cutting-edge infrastructure; various bugs filed: > > These are pretty much all fixed now except the > ffmpeg2theora-and-avconv-broken-in-trusty issues, which can work around. The > new job runner as provided in MediaWiki-Vagrant runs the transcode jobs > automatically, and transcodes and playback both now work running under HHVM. > > Yay! Thanks to everybody who helped me with Vagrant and Labs-Vagrant. > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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