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Provide a desktop beta feature of replacing Kaltura player with Video.js
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There's code for this merged in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312327/ but it needs some work before we can release it.

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I think we also still need a better small-thumbnail video player story, either updating the pop-up dialog patch or finishing the MultimediaViewer one.

I'm not working on this right now, sorry.

Change 354389 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable TimedMediaHandler's new video player Beta Feature in Labs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/354389

Change 354390 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable TimedMediaHandler's new video player Beta Feature

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/354390

Change 354389 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable TimedMediaHandler's new video player Beta Feature in Labs

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/354389

The svg file needs quite some work, the blue is not correct (it should be #36c) The grey colors are probably not okay either. It's also not minified (4.7KB)

Change 355113 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester; owner: Jforrester):
[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Bring Video.JS beta feature integration up to standard

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/355113

I'm not working on this right now, sorry.

Apparently I am. :-)

Change 355113 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Bring Video.JS beta feature integration up to standard

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/355113

Apparently I am. :-)

I was looking to replace kaltura player on my self hosted installation when I found video.JS... and this! I just want to say thank you so much.

@Aklapper , I mean "Will there be any kind of Speed controls, in this new player?" Check the image at https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/article_attachments/115021525107/playback.png

@Eatcha T174393 covers this; we can add it fairly easily soon (the necessary support for the Safari compatibility shim was recently added upstream; I just have to package a release and then enable the rate control)

Change 354390 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Enable TimedMediaHandler's new video player Beta Feature

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/354390

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-06-20T23:06:52Z] <jforrester@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: Enable TimedMediaHandler's new video player Beta Feature T148103 (duration: 00m 57s)

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They seem to be small whether the old or new players are in use. Not quite sure why yet, will look into in a bit -- those are full size videos and should not be showing tiny... The polar bear video is low resolution, and seems to show at its native size. We may need to adjust things to ensure that video players can be sized larger than their originals?

@Eatcha can you file a task for the unexpectedly small videos in gallery, and we'll track it down on that task. Thanks!

Note the root problem appears to be that some of the files are incorrectly marked as audio, causing a small width to be used for making thumbnails instead of a large one:

	protected function getThumbParams( $img ) {
		if ( $img && $img->getMediaType() === MEDIATYPE_AUDIO ) {
			$width = $this->mWidths;
		} else {
			// We want the width not to be the constraining
			// factor, so use random big number.
			$width = $this->mHeights * 10 + 100;
		}

		// self::SCALE_FACTOR so the js has some room to manipulate sizes.
		return [
			'width' => $width * self::SCALE_FACTOR,
			'height' => $this->mHeights * self::SCALE_FACTOR,
		];
	}

This has no relationship to the video.js or kaltura frontends; it's a backend problem with labeling the files.

@Eatcha: Please file separate issues as separate tasks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug . This task is about providing a desktop beta feature of replacing Kaltura player with Video.js. This task is not a catch-all for any potential issues that might happen or not in Video.js. Thanks for your understanding! :)

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Yup, this task is done.