[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#779491: ownCloud video handling (Was: Bug#779491: fixed in mediaelement 2.15.1+dfsg-2)

[David Prévot]

Hi Mathieu,

Thanks for your interest in the ownCloud Debian package and for your bug
report.

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 05:59:57PM +0100, Mathieu ROY wrote:
> So will this new updated package will make sure that existing owncloud servers 
> will stop trying to play video with a non existent file?

The Flash (and Silverlight) shims are now really disabled (so they won’t
be offered as an alternative anymore if proper HTML5 <video> is not
known to be working).

> I'm not really concerned about the ability or inability of owncloud to play 
> videos. I'm annoyed by the fact it acts as if it would but then silently end 
> up on pop-up with a black screen.

That, unfortunately, may still happen if the browser does not handle
properly <video>. The only thing fixed by this upload, is it won’t offer
a broken <object> or <embed> anymore, trying to download a non existing
file. Upstream documents the current support by formats and vendors:

	http://mediaelementjs.com/#devices

It would be nice to not offer a <video> at all if it is known not to
work, but would be even nicer to be able to build (and ship) those Flash
(and Silverlight) parts (as documented in the package description, the
/usr/share/doc/libjs-mediaelement/README.Debian file, and #760297).

Regards

David
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