TimedMediaHandler-wgl

This extension provides a media handler for the Ogg, WebM, mp4 container format.

This is a fork of the TimedMediaHandler extension, designed for use on Weird Gloop wikis, with the following changes:

• Removed VideoJS player and using raw <audio> and <video> HTML tags instead
• No embedding videos in iframes/modals/popovers
• Removed support for TimedText and closed captioning
• Removed ogv.js compatibility shim
• Added autoplay parameter for files: when enabled, autoplays and mutes media
• Added nocontrols parameter for files: when enabled, shows no controls
• Video transcoding is disabled by default (change $wgEnabledTranscodeSet to enable)
• Video elements have the playsinline attribute by default, for autoplay compatibility on iOS Safari

Rationale behind this fork

On our wikis, especially the RuneScape Wiki, we don't really have a need for custom player UIs that are supplied with TimedMediaHandler by default. Both mwembed and VideoJS players are unnecessary fluff for us, compared to letting the browser determine how to display the video by simply outputting <audio> and <video> tags.

Similarly, most of the media files on our wikis are either music (which only consists of instruments derived from MIDI), or sound effects. Therefore, we have no use in closed caption support (for now).

Installing

First, ensure that you have installed ffmpeg and Composer.

After you installed this extension, add the following to the end of your LocalSettings.php to enable it:

  wfLoadExtension( 'TimedMediaHandler' );

  // Change the following line as appropriate
  $wgFFmpegLocation = '/usr/bin/ffmpeg';

Then, run the following:

• Run the maintenance/update.php update script
• Install Composer dependencies using composer install --no-dev inside of the extensions/TimedMediaHandler directory.

Configuration

For the most part, the configuration is the same as the original TimedMediaHandler, but with the following changes:

• $wgTmhEnableMp4Uploads is removed and mp4 files are supported by default in $wgTmhFileExtensions.
• $wgEnableIframeEmbed was removed, as it is not used.
• $wgTimedTextNS and $wgTimedTextForeignNamespaces was removed, as captions support has been dropped for now.