Bleeding edge (Not sure if its still bleeding edge) firefox and chrome support VP9/Opus webm files. If we have such a file (or in some future where we transcode to that format), we want those browsers to play it via <video> tag.
Probably needs to make something like webmNativePlayer, but for VP9 webm's.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
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| Add support for WebM VP9/Opus playback and transcodes | mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler | master | +105 -5 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T44725 Multimedia file format support (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | TheDJ | T42193 Support for Opus audio format | |||
| Duplicate | None | T113592 Videos with opus need their transcodes reset | |||
| Resolved | RobH | T188075 eqiad/codfw: (4)+(4) hardware access request for videoscalers | |||
| Resolved | • brooke | T63805 Create WebM (VP9/opus) transcodes replacing the WebM (VP8/vorbis) ones eventually | |||
| Resolved | • brooke | T75150 Transcoding error on Commons: no opus support | |||
| Resolved | • brooke | T53313 Update avconv to support opus in ogg files | |||
| Resolved | • brooke | T55863 Support VP9 in TMH (Unable to decode) | |||
| Resolved | • brooke | T62272 Allow playing VP9 natively on browsers supporting it |
Quick question: is there a new file suffix or would these also be labeled as just '.webm'?
If we need to produce both VP8 and VP9 versions of WebM output, do we need to change our directory structure or file naming scheme to include codec versioning?
No new suffix, but we also include other transcoding info in filename (eg 480p, 720p) so i think we could just add to that part of filename.
Change 229397 had a related patch set uploaded (by Brion VIBBER):
Add support for WebM VP9/Opus playback and transcodes
Change 229397 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add support for WebM VP9/Opus playback and transcodes