On Tumblr pages with videos that have the option to play in "HD", video may play as the color black.
To reproduce the problem:
Go to a page on the Tumblr website with a video available in multiple definitions such as at http://hdanalogvideosynth.com/post/1344 ... tripes-wow .
Click video area to begin playback.
Click "HD" picture that becomes available when mousing-over the video.
I am using Pale Moon 26.2.1 on Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3.
Some Video May Play As The Color Black
Re: Some Video May Play As The Color Black
It's HTML5 video - Windows XP likely doesn't support the required codec for what they serve HD video in.
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ascii_elite
Re: Some Video May Play As The Color Black
The video displayed before with the installed codecs. Also, although the video may play black, it may also become visible sometimes upon an event, such as the video looping to the beginning.Moonchild wrote:It's HTML5 video - Windows XP likely doesn't support the required codec for what they serve HD video in.
The issue has finally manifested also on Firefox and Chromium (where it previously was not).
It would seem that the problem might not be a Pale Moon issue.
I wonder why the problem is manifesting.
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vwestlife
Re: Some Video May Play As The Color Black
Tumblr recently changed to using H.264 via HTML5 for video playback. Unfortunately most web browsers in Windows XP do not support this. You can check here:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
If you see a red exclamation point next to H.264, then HTML5 H.264 video playback is not going to work on any web site that uses it (not just YouTube).
So far the only web browser I've come across that supports HTML5 H.264 video playback in Windows XP is Vivaldi 1.0. Unfortunately, I couldn't get Tumblr video playback to work in it. When you click on the video, it acts like it's going to play, but it just stays with the "moving dots" forever and never loads or plays the video.
If you wish to soldier on with XP, you may have to settle for using one of the various web sites that lets you download Tumblr videos, and then play them locally on your PC in a media player program.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
If you see a red exclamation point next to H.264, then HTML5 H.264 video playback is not going to work on any web site that uses it (not just YouTube).
So far the only web browser I've come across that supports HTML5 H.264 video playback in Windows XP is Vivaldi 1.0. Unfortunately, I couldn't get Tumblr video playback to work in it. When you click on the video, it acts like it's going to play, but it just stays with the "moving dots" forever and never loads or plays the video.
If you wish to soldier on with XP, you may have to settle for using one of the various web sites that lets you download Tumblr videos, and then play them locally on your PC in a media player program.