[pmwiki-users] Video problems with Safari 9.0.1

[Petko Yotov]

Looking at the response headers, there are only a few differences: the 
direct download from the server contains a header "Accept-Ranges: bytes" 
which allows the browsers to restart a download or to skip forward. The 
PmWiki's protected download feature does not provide such a function, a 
file is served at once, the browser has to download it linearly.

If you remove or comment out the line

   $EnableDirectDownload = 0;

from your local configuration, and fix Apache .htaccess permissions, it 
will probably work.

OTOH if you have disabled direct downloads, you probably have a reason 
for this.

Alternatively, you may define and use an InterMap prefix to easily link 
from your pages to a directly accessible directory (or symlink) on the 
server, for example:

   # in the page [[Site.InterMap]]:
   Videos: /~paul/Videos/

where on the server the Videos directory is a symlink to one uploads 
subdirectory that may be accessed without passwords.

In content wiki page:

   [[Videos:Concession_LAN_800k-h.mp4]]

See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/InterMap for more information. 
Your authors will still need to upload the videos the usual way.

Petko

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On 2015-11-16 20:01, Paul Bloch wrote:
> I post videos on our PmWiki as simple upload links:
> "[[Attach:Video.mp4]]".  This has worked fine until Safari 9.0.1,
> which doesn’t play them. They still play in Google Chrome and Firefox.
> To troubleshoot, I updated to the latest PmWiki software and used the
> PmWiki Site Analyzer to check Cookbook and configuration and disabled
> all my Safari extensions. Safari still won’t play the videos. What I
> discovered is that the video _does_ play if I move it out of PmWiki
> and just link to it directly.
> 
> You can try this yourself in my WikiSandbox:
> <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~paul/wackie/index.php?n=Main.WikiSandbox>.
> 
> Here is the wiki markup of those two links. The file pointed to in the
> second line is a symlink to the file in my "uploads" directory; it is
> the same file.
> 
> *[[Attach:Concession_LAN_800k-h.mp4]] (works with Chrome46.0.2490.86,
> Firefox42, Safari5.1.10)
> *[[https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~paul/Concession_LAN_800k-h.mp4]](works
> with Chrome46.0.2490.86, Firefox42, Safari5.1.10, Safari9.0.1)
> 
> What is PmWiki doing that keeps this from playing in Safari 9.0.1?
> 
> Paul E. Bloch, Systems Admin
> Computer & Information Science
> University of Oregon