Video Preload

[Jeremy Pope]

The HTML5 video tag has a few options on how a video is loaded on page load. Currently, MediaGoblin uses preload="auto" which causes the whole video to be downloaded on the end users side, even if they don't actually play the video. The preload="metadata" option will only load the metadata and first frame of the video on page load. This can help site navigation quite a bit during low-bandwidth times (such as through 3G on phone's wifi hotspot). I have edited the mediagoblin/templates/mediagoblin/media_displays/video.html file on my MG instance to have the 'metadata' option. A couple of examples: http://url.jpope.org/9a and http://url.jpope.org/99

[Jeremy Pope]

And I forgot to drop this link for reference sake ;) http://www.w3schools.com/html5/att_video_preload.asp

[Will Kahn-Greene]

The original url for this bug was ​http://bugs.foocorp.net/issues/734 .

[Christopher Allan Webber]

This is an easy task for a new contributor.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Also jpope's "theme" changed, so that example went away... should be clear enough what to do from the description of this bug I think, though.

[joar]

This has been solved in a commit on my audio+sniffing branch, review and merge into master is pending.

​https://github.com/jwandborg/mediagoblin/commit/4f4f2531ad5207d074027519b881bf485a249b44#L7R27

[Sacha]

I fixed this bug here:
​https://gitorious.org/~chemhacker/mediagoblin/chemhackers-mediagoblin/commits/bug375_video_preload

...and Chris already pushed my fix to the master branch. (collisions in sprints :) )

[thomzane]

Add a subticket #5625.