https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66143
--- Comment #20 from Tilman Bayer <tba...@wikimedia.org> --- (In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #18) > > > > 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). Thanks for these very informative comments! I added some of that to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines/How_to_post#Method_1:_Reusing_the_HTML_that_embeds_a_video_on_wiki_pages . However, when I tried this out, reusing the <div class="mediaContainer" ... HTML (from this wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/A_Look_Back_at_Wikimania_2013&oldid=9276912 ) in a separate HTML page, it did not work correctly - the box displays nicely and the video starts playing in the browser (Chromium), but only in low quality (160p, I guess) instead of the highest possible resolution for this div. This might be more appropriate for a separate bug - in that case, sorry for the offtopic discussion. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
