Playing Example.ogg audio file pops up a video player
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	Skierpage
	May 25 2024, 1:22 AM

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Steps to replicate the issue:

Put a short audio file in a page using [File:] (or {{listen}}). See for example, the short audio files on https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_only. Note, so far I can only reproduce the bug with Example.ogg.
Click the triangular play button.

What happens?:
A VideoPlayer popup window appears in both Firefox and chromium-browser for Linux.

mediawiki_audio_example_playback.png (661×859 px, 62 KB)

What should have happened instead?:
The inline player should play the sound, as it does with other audio files.

Other information:
I couldn't find any other audio file besides Example.ogg that has this glitch. I have tried short ones, long ones, etc. on Commons and they all play inline as expected. I don't see anything distinctive in Example.ogg's metadata as reported by exiftool, and if you go to its file history on Commons, clicking play on every version of the file pops up the video player. 😕

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Mentioned Here: T246035: Videojs player for audio opens a dialog to support subtitles, which is unexpected
T303387: Add an 'expand inline player' option

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Skierpage created this task.May 25 2024, 1:22 AM

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I think I figured it out. If an audio file has closed captioning in the TimedText namespace (in any language, I think), then playing it will pop up the video player which displays the closed captioning text.

The mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler page said clicking play on both video and audio would "start an embedded player." I changed the documentation, it's better than it was.

I guess the player is working as designed.

In T365897#9832033, @Skierpage wrote:

I think I figured it out. If an audio file has closed captioning in the TimedText namespace (in any language, I think), then playing it will pop up the video player which displays the closed captioning text.

FWIW, I believe this was previously discussed in T246035, and the remaining open task to improve this behavior is T303387 if I understand correctly.

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	May 25 2024, 1:22 AM

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