[Commons-l] New Java audio player, now with video.

[David Still]

Unfortunately, the player causes serious problems under Mac OS 10.4.8.
Safari 2.0.4 either crashes when playing or reports that Java is
unavailable (it's installed and enabled, so something's wrong there),
while other browsers like Camino show other weird problems (where the
Java player causes the entire window -- or large portions of it -- to
appear as garbage, even after changing or closing tabs).

Is there any way to test the player on these systems?

-D

On 3/8/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Cary Bass <bastique at bastique.com> wrote:
> > It worked perfectly on my system, although there was some considerable
> > buffering delay.
>
> The image server (amane) is seriously overloaded.  Our squids do not
> cache files over 600KBytes, so when amane suffers video and audio
> become mostly useless.   I have solved this for the in-browser player
> by setting up a seperate squid which is only used by the in browser
> player. I've preloaded it with all of our videos and the most popular
> audio.
>
> Performance should now be very good.
>
> > I rather enjoyed the orchestra, although my first choice
> > for an example would have been a much shorter selection, like, say:
> > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/commonsJOrbisPlayer.php?path=Blen
> > der3D+BouncingSoftbodyBall.ogg
>
> I wanted something with sound. :)
>
> I've fully populated http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
> and every video has a play in browser link.
>
> We only have about 600 videos on commons, so there is still plenty of
> room to grow.  :)
>
> A lot of our videos aren't even used in the projects, even though
> there are interesting and informative.. like
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Pop-o-matic_video.ogg
>
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