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, <kevstoy(a)aol.com> 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
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