Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:40:35 UTC
Created attachment 6467 [details] don't update the hash table for players we don't support There are two problems. 1: On Safari 4 mac os x, quicktime support cannot be found for ogg. This is fixed by patch 1 (though i'm not really sure why the patch works...) 2: On FireFox, the playback fails. It gets stuck on the null movie. This is fixed by patch 2 Rationale patch 2: Basically, the mozilla plugins have never really supported object well. Apple has also never really made an effort to do so for the QuickTime plugin. Instead of stubbornly trying to to use the most efficient and standards compliant javascript, let's use it how Apple is using it and how they advise others to use it. That should hopefully result in maximum compatibility. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScripting_HTML/QTScripting_HTML_Document/ScriptingHTML.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001525-2-PlayingNonQuickTimeContentinQuickTime classid to force the object to load the QT activex element, using type on the embed to force quicktime loading for the embed under non-IE browsers. Tested on FF 3.5, Safari 2, Safari 4 and Opera 9.6
Created attachment 6468 [details] advised QT embed code
This is turning out to be very hard to test without a mac. I get inconstant results with windows IE quciktime and windows Firefox quicktime. It could be just crappy performance of the VM? But I will wait on the application of these patches to someone that can test them in a Mac .. and or I will try and get access to a Mac sometime soon.
*Bulk BZ Change: +Patch to open bugs with patches attached that are missing the keyword*
Is this problem still reproducible?
Chris, do you have access to a Mac OS X install where you can test this?
Michael, should this be unassigned from you now that OggHandler was replaced by TimedMediaHandler?
It seems that support for Safari was dropped from embedded player.
