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TimedText not displayed on audio files any longer
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

What happens?:

  • No subtitles are shown (but they used to)

What should have happened instead?:

  • Subtitles should have been shown.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

No, this seems to be a side effect of switching to native rendering of subtitles. I'll make a follow up.

Change #1321891 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Subtitles: audio has to use videojs subtitle rendering

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1321891

Change #1321891 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] Subtitles: audio has to use videojs subtitle rendering

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1321891

@TheDJ not sure if this is related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._President_Joseph_R._Biden_Delivers_Remarks_on_the_Attemped_Assassination_of_Donald_J._Trump_(14_July_2024).webm doesn't show TimedText (when using Firefox, it works in Safari) while https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._President_Joseph_R._Biden_Delivers_Remarks_on_the_Attemped_Assassination_of_Donald_J._Trump_(14_July_2024).webm shows TimedText regardless of the browser.

The issue appears to be specific to .webm files, other file types (e.g. the ones mentioned in the task description) do show TimedText on local wikis and Commons.

@Johannnes89 i don't see it. it's probably the previous thing that got stuck in parsercache (which lasts for up to 1 month). A manual purge or just waiting it out should fix it.

oh shoot. There's a cors error it seems in firefox and Chrome.

Change #1332497 had a related patch set uploaded (by TheDJ; author: TheDJ):

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] CORS: use anonymous mode for foreign tracks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1332497

Change #1332497 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler@master] CORS: use anonymous mode for foreign tracks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1332497

I have also filed a ticket with Safari about this behavior