johndyer/mediaelement — Issue #409: MP3 fallback to Flash fails in Firefox and Opera.
Author: chris001
Created: 2012-02-29 18:45:23+00:00
State: open

Using the Joomla 1.5 plugin.

Want to play an MP3 on all browsers, with preference for the html5 player, and fallback to flash when the browser cannot natively play mp3 in its html5 player due to license cost issues (Firefox and Opera are most famous for this).

Working: Safari, IE9, and Chrome (the html5 player kicks in and plays the mp3).

Failing: Firefox and Opera.
Link to the page with this issue:
http://www.pagasleaseattorney.com/for-those-who-like-the-clark-law-firm-on-facebook.html

1) Firefox (latest version) does not show any player - just a blank space on the page. Viewing source, audio tag is there.

Why did MediaElement fail to load the flash player?? How do you fix it ??

2) Opera 11.61 (latest) is putting up the html5 player, but obviously, failing to play anything, because Opera will not play mp3 on html5, it requires flash to play mp3.

Why did MediaElement load the html5 player, and fail to recognize that this browser cannot play mp3 on html5?? Isn't MediaElement supposed to detect if the html5 player on a given browser cannot play the mp3 format, and just fallback (fallforward) to the flash player to play the mp3?? How to fix this ??