Live webcam feeds don't work on the browser

[TenLeftFingers]

Visiting live webcam feeds like this one [1] don't work on the phone. They just display an updated thumbnail on refresh. It works on every other device I've tried (desktop, iOS Safari).

1: http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/koala-cam

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Tested with chromium on desktop, the page uses flash to display the webcam.
Tested on chrome on android, I’m seeing a still image with media controls but they don’t seem to work at all. Could this be a duplicate of bug #1408760 ?

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Hi Oliver,

I don't personally know enough about the redirecting or which sites use flash vs html5 etc to answer that. But I thought that Safari on iOS infamously does not support flash and the link above works on iOS 7.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

It does appear similar on the surface. Is it possible to make this bug a child (rather than a duplicate) of the other so it can be marked for review again when the other is completed?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

There’s unfortunately no way to make this bug a child of the other one, it’s either a duplicate or nothing. I’ll tentatively mark this one a duplicate of the other one, and I’ll add the information in this bug report to the other one to make sure we review this use case when fixing streaming.

[TenLeftFingers (tenleftfingers)]

Thanks so much Oliver

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Olivier Tilloy <
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> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1408760 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1408760
>
> There’s unfortunately no way to make this bug a child of the other one,
> it’s either a duplicate or nothing. I’ll tentatively mark this one a
> duplicate of the other one, and I’ll add the information in this bug
> report to the other one to make sure we review this use case when fixing
> streaming.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1408760
> Streaming video does not work
>
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