Internet Explorer and video files

[Marc-Andre Gaudreau]

In "Content > Files", if I upload a video file (mp4), the file will upload correctly. But the link to view the video won't work in IE. In every other browser, the video plays in the browser but IE trie to open Windows Media Player which gives the error :

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.

If I save the file to my desktop and play it from there, it works fine.

Mahara version 1.10.3testing (2014092315)
Operating system Linux
Database MariaDB
Browser IE11

[Aaron Wells (u-aaronw)]

Thanks for the detailed bug report, Marc!

We aim to support the three latest versions of Internet Explorer in Mahara, so this is indeed a problem.

Note to devs: I've tagged this one against 1.10, 15.04, and 15.10, assuming that the problem probably applies to them as well, but I haven't actually replicated it yet. If it turns out to be a 1.10-only thing, feel free to remove the other branches.

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "master" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/4745

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Marc-Andre,

If you have / can have a developer setup (installation intructions at https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Developer_Environment ), you are welcome to test the patch and check if that solves your problem.

Cheers
Kristina

[Son Nguyen (ngson2000)]

With current master version, I can upload, add and see mp4 video on IE 11 without problem.
I will check with other version

[Jinelle Foley-Barnes (jinelleb)]

Moved to 1.10.9 because the fix in master isn't ready to be backported yet.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Mahara because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Hi Marc-Andre,

We implemented an HTML video player. Do you still exhibit the problem in Internet Explorer with your video, e.g. on http://demo.mahara.org ?

Cheers
Kristina

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/4745
Committed: https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara/commit/8bd74fdbf324a6e3276c14636a9a2ffac1fd7038
Submitter: Robert Lyon (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 8bd74fdbf324a6e3276c14636a9a2ffac1fd7038
Author: Jinelle Foley-Barnes <email address hidden>
Date: Wed May 6 09:53:39 2015 +1200

Behat Test: Uploading Videos (Bug 1445653)

Moved the file to the new 'collections' dir

Change-Id: I2ef3129062e88a61251bdd516d1417d376eea7c4