Media Player is needed on BBC website

Bug #200466 reported by zhangxu
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Moblin Browser
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Bug detailed description:
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In current image, some BBC webpage can't play video because Media Player is needed.But now Media Player is not accessary with MID.This issue occured as same as in firefox linux version,but well in firefox windows version.
It contains the following webpages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/worldservice/meta/tx/live_news?size=au&bgc=003399&lang=en-ws&nbram=1&nbwm=1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7230000/newsid_7233600?redirect=7233656.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbram=1&b

Reproduce steps:
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(1) Launch midbrowser
(2) Visit webpages which mentioned above.

Current result:
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BBC webpages can't play videos which need Media Player.

Expected result:
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There should have a plugin to play videos on BBC website.

Basic root-causing log:
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Revision history for this message
zhangxu (xu-x-zhang) wrote :
Changed in moblin-browser:
assignee: nobody → carl-wong
importance: Undecided → Low
description: updated
cwong1 (carl-wong)
Changed in moblin-browser:
assignee: carl-wong → jimmyhuang
status: New → Triaged
Changed in moblin-browser:
milestone: none → m11
Revision history for this message
Jimmy Huang (jimmyhuang-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

We can't fix this because it is not a browser issue. The midbrowser supports the media player plugins like Liteplayer and Mplayer, which does the streaming of the videos. The browser have nothing to do with the actual playback.

Changed in moblin-browser:
importance: Low → Wishlist
milestone: m11 → fix-later
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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