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Apple's Safari is notoriously unable to deal with anything in the ogg container (see also T68722). On the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDR_(audio), it is evident that the VideoJS player invoked by `[[File:...]]` get correct transcoding assignment with mp3, but the plain links invoked by `[[Media:..]]` point to an ogg, which is not supported by the browser. As unfortunate as it gets, these browsers occupy at least 20% of the total mobile + desktop market. We need something that goes beyond a [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/effa0fee2a81a83918d48918f4e6beb1fee1a62c/includes/parser/Parser.php#L2724 | "direct file link" currently done ]] so things can just work.

Apple's Safari is notoriously unable to deal with anything in the ogg container (see also T68722). On the page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XDR_(audio)&oldid=1155758294, it is evident that the VideoJS player invoked by `[[File:...]]` get correct transcoding assignment with mp3, but the plain links invoked by `[[Media:..]]` point to an ogg, which is not supported by the browser. As unfortunate as it gets, these browsers occupy at least 20% of the total mobile + desktop market. We need something that goes beyond a [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/effa0fee2a81a83918d48918f4e6beb1fee1a62c/includes/parser/Parser.php#L2724 | "direct file link" currently done ]] so things can just work.

Apple's Safari is notoriously unable to deal with anything in the ogg container (see also T68722). On the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//index.php?title=XDR_(audio)&oldid=1155758294, it is evident that the VideoJS player invoked by `[[File:...]]` get correct transcoding assignment with mp3, but the plain links invoked by `[[Media:..]]` point to an ogg, which is not supported by the browser. As unfortunate as it gets, these browsers occupy at least 20% of the total mobile + desktop market. We need something that goes beyond a [[ https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/effa0fee2a81a83918d48918f4e6beb1fee1a62c/includes/parser/Parser.php#L2724 | "direct file link" currently done ]] so things can just work.