https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66143

--- Comment #18 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---

> 
> Yes, it was changed as a workaround for this bug last week. But that's
> actually the way we most often use for videos on the blog (e.g.
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/26/happy-birthday-ward-cunningham-
> inventor-of-the-wiki/ ) - with basically the same HTML as MediaWiki uses on
> wiki pages, via a conversion script
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/
> Converting_wiki_pages_to_blog_posts ). One advantage is that this allows to
> select the still image to be displayed, via the thumbtime parameter, which
> afaik isn't possible with the iframes (is there a bug for that?).

I don't think there's a bug for that, but its been on my mind that there should
be a method of specifying the thumbtime via iframe.

Copying the html is fine, however you need to copy it when using a video of
size 800px (or full size if the video < 800px). Otherwise you get the html
which opens a popup dialog box, which won't work as well when just copying the
html.

i.e. If the html looks like <div id="mwe_player_0"
style="position:relative;display:inline-block;width:700px;height:394px"
videopayload="...

Then copying the html will result in an image with a play button which links to
the original file for download.

If the html looks like:

<div class="mediaContainer"
style="position:relative;display:block;width:800px"><video...

Then the video will play in browser using native html5 browser support
(Assuming you have a browser that supports ogg or webm).

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