Status update:

The weekly MediaWiki update deployment -- with ogv.js included -- has now reached en.wikipedia.org. Please do try it out in Safari, Internet Explorer, or MS Edge and give a shout about any problems not already listed at http://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page#Pending_fixes

This is still a soft launch and _could_ be rolled back if necessary (but so far so good)... A bigger announcement will come next week once some additional bug fixes go out.

Some videos!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda#Diet - small videos!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)#Rover_role_in_the_landing_system - big videos!

Some audio!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Godzilla.ogg - short audio!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Durian.ogg - long audio!

I'm starting to update documentation as well:
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#ogv.js_soft_launch_-_media_playback_for_Safari.2C_IE.2C_Edge
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler#August_2015_update
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/ogv.js

Will start updating the Commons media playback docs today and tomorrow...

-- brion


On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I've done some more fixes to ogv.js to perform *much* smoother on slower machines by running the decoders in Web Worker threads. If there's no objection, I'm going to land ogv.js (and a number of smaller fixes for media playback) into TimedMediaHandler later today.

ogv.js is a JavaScript compatibility shim for Ogg and WebM video in Safari and IE/Edge which don't support free codecs natively. (IE/Edge on desktop can use native WebM components if you install them manually but still lack Ogg audio support.) This replaces the old Cortado Java applet that no longer works on most current computers.

Please feel free to help review and test! Live demo site https://ogvjs-testing.wmflabs.org/


MwEmbedSupport:
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227074 - fix fullscreen video in IE

TimedMediaHandler:
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/219398 - TMH transcode list ordering fix
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/226999 - fix double-playback in IE/Edge with native webm installed
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227066 - fix the popup player on first open
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/227155 - increase quality of Ogg Theora transcodes, add 240p with the old bandwidth of 360p

There's also my basic mobile integration, which requires some more work to support suitable controls:


-- brion