Firefox 4 Issues

Alan

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Mar 30, 2011, 9:26:38 AM3/30/11

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I'm testing things out in Firefox 4 and am running into a few
different issues. When I click on the full screen button, I'm seeing a
gray full screen button appear in the top left corner. Clicking on
that has no effect. Also, hovering over (or clicking on) the captions
menu button doesn't have any effect, so captions can't be turned off.

Any thoughts on how to work around those issues?

Thanks!

Alan

Alan

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Mar 30, 2011, 9:27:49 AM3/30/11

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Oops, just realized the Go Fullscreen button is on the top right
corner, not the top left. Here's the url for that video:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1786082/tvm-demo/mediaelement/index.html

John Dyer

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Mar 30, 2011, 12:12:47 PM3/30/11

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Alan,

I'm not 100% sure why the captions box isn't showing up in your example. It's working well on http://mediaelementjs.com/ so I'm not sure what's going on in the example (the volume slider isn't working either). This is using :hover commands, but perhaps I should change it over to JavaScript to make sure it works in wonky scenarios.

In regards to the fullscreen playback, here's what's going on: since you're using MP4, Firefox has to fallback to Flash or Silverlight. However, those plugins don't let you call the fullscreen command from HTML/JavaScript, so you have to click a second button on the Flash player. I wish I could change that, but it's just browser/plugin security stuff.

Alternatively, you could provide a WebM file and you'd get the full HTML5 experience in Firefox and Opera.