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Android app doesn't play particular video with Ogg source
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Description

Screenshot of Android app (1,800×2,560 px, 822 KB)

Steps:

  • open Wikipedia Android app
  • search Berlin Wall
  • scroll down to video in Secondary Response
  • click video to pop up viewer
  • click play icon to play

Expected: should play

Actual: "could not play video"

The media infrastructure on Android does not play Ogg Theora videos; playback should be using the WebM transcode instead. There is one visible at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1962-08-16_The_Wall.ogv

Event Timeline

brooke renamed this task from Android app doesn't play video with Ogg source (only WebM source plays) to Android app doesn't play particular video with Ogg source.May 11 2016, 12:04 AM

OK, the source file is 400x300 so I suspect were hitting a bug with the size boundaries, probably triggered by adding the 240p webm size, which would make the 360p webm no longer one we would produce fresh.

Note this likely affects other files in intermediate sizes like this; fix is to run the transcode jobs. :)