Testing Video for Bugs
by bassam on May.17, 2009, under production
Please view the following and report any bugs 
– I’m testing the html <video> element with a fallback for older browsers. This should work on the latest betas for safari and firefox; those of you on those browsers, please test and tell me if it works, for all other browsers we have our normal flash player.
some issues: I’m unable to see the “poster” image for the video element in firefox, anyone can tell me if I did it wrong?
20 comments for this entry:
May 17th, 2009 on 7:10 pm
The poster is unable to see, but the video works fine:
On firefox 3.5 beta4 works fine
On firefox 3.0.10 works fine
Tested on UbuntuStudio Jaunty 9.04
May 17th, 2009 on 9:04 pm
hmm. I’ve tried it with firefox 3.0.10 in ubuntu 8.04. I only see the flash video…
May 17th, 2009 on 10:01 pm
I get native video in Firefox 3.5b4 and Safari 3.2.1 on MacOS X, and the flash fallback in Songbird. Safari is a bit sluggish when loading.
I get the poster frame on Safari, but not Firefox, but other pages where the poster used to show don’t anymore, so maybe that’s a bug in the current release.
Cool test!
May 18th, 2009 on 1:30 am
looks good to me on safari 4 beta – plays as a quicktime.
May 18th, 2009 on 1:44 am
Ubuntu 64bits 9.10
Firefox 3.0.1
all ok
May 18th, 2009 on 1:52 am
by all ok I mean: “video works fine under firefox and epiphany”. not sure what “poster” image is… that probably means that I’m not seeing it either
May 18th, 2009 on 4:33 am
thanks for testing folks! looks like the video element is a go, (minus the poster problem with firefox 3.5 beta4) but I’m sure that’ll get fixed.
I’ll go ahead and convert the rest of the vids on this site (only the teaser so far).
ps: poster is a still image that is seen before the video starts playing. in all browsers other than firefox 3.5 beta you get to see something, in ff3.5 it’s just blank.
pss: any way to get a ‘play fullscreen’ button in video elements?
May 18th, 2009 on 4:56 am
SO: Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
Browser: Firefox 3.0.10 works well.
Browser: Epiphany works well.
Browser: Opera 9.64 works well.
I can see the poster image. I hope there is no sound because I don’t hear it
I am sure that I’m seeing the flv, not the ogg or mp4 videos.
I will try on FF 3.5b4
May 18th, 2009 on 5:08 am
From FF3.5b4, video works well, but I can’t see the poster image.
The player buttons changed, so I think the ogg video is playing
May 18th, 2009 on 10:17 am
yup, there is no sound to the video, would have been just us talking to the bugs
thanks, I’m pretty sure it’s ok to use the video element, now I see it’s working in all browsers. the lack of poster image in firefox 3.5b4 seems like a bug that would get fixed in time.
May 18th, 2009 on 2:12 pm
update: I see poster image (both firefox and epiphany) and have a full screen button (right side) working also.
no sound.
May 18th, 2009 on 8:33 pm
Yeah, sadly no fullscreen button for the native playback yet. For firefox it will probably happen for the release after 3.5.
Hacking something up for video-only isn’t hard, but doing it properly with overlays from html and everything cross-platform is some work.
May 18th, 2009 on 8:38 pm
Firefox 3.5 does not yet support the poster attribute. It’s due to be implemented for a release after that. See bug 449156:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449156
May 18th, 2009 on 8:43 pm
Aha, poster stuff is also scheduled for after 3.5.
In the meantime, the recommendation is to have something useful in the first frame of your video, since firefox is using that instead. Or implement it yourself in javascript.
May 19th, 2009 on 12:47 am
That bug rig looks awesome
May 19th, 2009 on 1:39 pm
hey guys, thanks again. having a first frame with meaningful stuff works for me, especially for the teaser (for now the only video in the media gallery)
oh, and thanks jakub! working on it right now (well, I’m ‘meta’ working on it- second version of my auto-rig/rig-retargeting work work)
May 19th, 2009 on 1:39 pm
oh yeah, expect that the teaser video will be in
May 27th, 2009 on 2:04 pm
Opera plays the video fine.
May 29th, 2009 on 4:25 am
@bassam
Fullscreen video in Firefox should already be possible with a bookmarklet:
http://lelab.tv/player/js_fullscreen.htm
Of course it would be better if Firefox offered this out of the box. The bug is reported here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453063
July 31st, 2009 on 8:41 am
Is freaking awesome..!
Congrats tallented people..!
I’ll try to get some real roaches to take some pics for the textures…
Big hugs as usual…