Video in Firefox will not played.

[markusweigelt]

Firefox is not playing html5 videos. The video tag can added to dom witch is html5 indicator of plugin, but firefox has some trouble with the html5 googlevideo service.

So i think the webdeveloper should decide that he wants html5 or not.

I suggest that ytplayer plugin provide a setting variable to configure that.

[pupunzi]

Hi,
Sorry but Firefox can play HTML5 videos provided from Youtube without any problems... It's my default testing browser.

Which version of Firefox are you testing with?
The component verify if the browser can play HTML5 videos and switch to the appropriate modality by itself.

[markusweigelt]

Hi,

my current firefox version is 31.0 clean installation and mode with deactive addons.

This url will generated with html5 and works in other browser but not for my firefox. So the video will buffering, but nothing happend (no start event is thrown) cause google says that file is corrupted. :-/

https://r11---sn-5hn7sney.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?upn=q_8OxLFoaRM&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&expire=1409587990&sver=3&itag=18&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes&initcwndbps=826000&ip=79.240.230.77&requiressl=yes&source=youtube&mv=m&ms=au&mm=31&fexp=901441%2C901803%2C902408%2C914074%2C927622%2C931868%2C931983%2C932404%2C932625%2C934024%2C934030%2C938008%2C944312%2C945035%2C946013%2C948703%2C953801&mt=1409566281&id=o-AMIBjLVFKkf0OS7o9txs4hqN2NIU4mpw3nj9Pgc4rks7&key=yt5&signature=AE8D2631E0681E3D9276D3BFEF277ADD996515B2.C910793F2C9904912FE13776A350365A35D0906E&cpn=ujNT1FL15g0osReX&ptk=youtube_none&pltype=contentugc&c=web&cver=html5\

Does this url work in your firefox?

[pupunzi]

Hi,
This URL is pointing to an mp4 file and it can't play on FF other than using Quicktime (firefox accept only ogg or webm format for videos); But this is not what is happaning when Youtube serves the video as it will serve the appropriate format based on the client browser. If you use webkit it will serve an mp4 video, if you use mozilla based browser it will serve webm video.
So this is not a consistent example.

If you try this demo page: http://pupunzi.com/mb.components/mb.YTPlayer/demo/demo_background.html with Firefox you can see that it works perfectly.

Bye,
Matteo

[markusweigelt]

Hi,

this generated url i retrieved when i was debugging javascript in firefox of demo page of ytplayer (demo_background.html), cause demo page also not work in firefox.
Internet Explorer and Chrome works with demo page of ytplayer.

In my case i modified ytplayer js and delete line witch generates the html5 param on youtube url. with that modification it works fine cause the flash fallback will been taken.

i know that firefox supports html5 but currently native firefox do not support video codec h.264. so when i call the video on youtube site directly with default activation of html5 (https://www.youtube.com/html5) the video also did not play cause video is in mp4.

[pupunzi]

Sorry but the video shown at the given link is one I'm using in the demo page and it has no problem on Firefox.
Look at this page: http://pupunzi.com/mb.components/mb.YTPlayer/demo/demo_videoList.html
and select: nam June Paik 03 on Firefox.
If I'm not wrong that is the video you bring as example and for me is served with the right format on Firefox...

So this is not considerable as a real issue as it happens on your specific environment (firewall?, restrictions?, specific OS settings?, etc.).

Bye,
Matteo

P.S.: this is the URL generated:

https://r1---sn-bgp44po-ajte.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?ip=82.119.201.30&key=yt5&itag=43&mm=31&ms=au&id=o-AFJBqwBQHuIQajAEr0_Jj0QUBIcdgzZqgPRJGYk_r_NL&mv=m&initcwndbps=2783000&mt=1409588697&expire=1409610335&signature=5DBE28EBB18455ADC1097A5092D9A6CA8432860A.87E29E1DF0C7829EE3C4F0D264B6577575550A3D&upn=EbCSxtNF5O0&sparams=id%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cmm%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&requiressl=yes&ipbits=0&ratebypass=yes&fexp=902408%2C914072%2C927622%2C931983%2C932404%2C932625%2C934024%2C934030%2C940676%2C945035%2C946023%2C949204%2C953801&sver=3&source=youtube&cpn=2xyvHG0Ov-NJBI5q&ptk=youtube_none&pltype=contentugc&c=web&cver=html5