Change 752294 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] VideoJS: Hide native controls when loading the player

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/752294

I googled smth like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7323053/dynamically-using-the-first-frame-as-poster-in-html5-video#50386123

Change 752294 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] VideoJS: Hide native controls when loading the player

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/752294

As far as I know, there is no good way around this..

BTW. this specifically refers to the effect happening at some point. All our players are incl in the html with controls=true, specifically to allow for native fallback for non-JS users. Most ppl don't do this, they just hide the controls no matter what. This always exposes us to some issues in the initial page load. I consider that a different problem than what this ticket is about however.

Do I need to create a new task? :) Because it seems to me that this is easy to do (normal first frame).

Important is that the parameter preload is not set to none either its not given and therewith the default value auto or manually set to preload="auto".

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7323053/dynamically-using-the-first-frame-as-poster-in-html5-video#50386123

@TheDJ I think this is relevant to the problem described in this task. Chrome/10

Oh wait, you are saying that when the video opens, we show our poster, instead of the first frame of the video ? Is that the issue ?

Hmm, that for the dialog mode at least isn't ideal perhaps...

In T298826#7660496, @TheDJ wrote:

Oh wait, you are saying that when the video opens, we show our poster, instead of the first frame of the video ? Is that the issue ?

I'm afraid I accidentally combined two/three tasks into one. Thought it was one problem :( Yes, when you load the page video/audio show another interface, when you open video we show bad interface (you fixed it I think), and when we use for preview not first frame from video.

Lets' split that off into a separate ticket indeed.