[Commons-l] Please test Theora in Firefox Minefield nightlies

[Magnus Manske]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:08 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis support for the HTML5 <video> element has
> landed in Firefox Minefield nightlies (3.1a2-pre). This is *big news*
> because it means a standard way of displaying video in web browsers
> will be available to all without being stuck with Flash. And Theora is
> the only accepted format on Wikimedia Commons.
>
> See:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-July/045036.html
> http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed.html
>
> What we need is people to test this. So please download a copy of
> Minefield, test it thoroughly on Wikimedia Commons video, beat on it,
> thrash it, report bugs. There's plenty.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
>
> You need to load the video, click "More …" and it'll give you the
> option. Wikimedia would very much like to make it a first option
> rather than a last one, but first it needs to be better (more
> functional and stable) than loading Cortado with Java.

It doesn't.

I go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Central_Reclamation_Phase_3_-_2008-01-12_2.ogg
and click on the play button. I get

    * Download file
Use player:
    * Cortado (Java) (selected)
    * Still image only

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre)
Gecko/2008072303 Minefield/3.1a1pre

Magnus