Clips too big to play as they are (past 1080p, over the data budget, unmeasurable) stream as HLS from vmedia and play by themselves instead of waiting behind a tap-to-play cover; with Data Saver or a slow link the cover stays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ZDf1cyCQLkfjftYhymZAg

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/video-fallback-test.js b/tools/video-fallback-test.js
index 85250c0..93726e1 100644
--- a/tools/video-fallback-test.js
+++ b/tools/video-fallback-test.js
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ const server = Bun.serve({ port: 0, fetch: (req) => {
 } });
 const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ executablePath: '/usr/bin/google-chrome', headless: 'new', args: ['--no-sandbox', '--autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required'] });
 const page = await browser.newPage();
+// a browser without HLS of its own (Firefox): a clip too big to play as it
+// is waits for a tap here, rather than streaming (video-hls-play-test)
+await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(() => {
+  const can = HTMLMediaElement.prototype.canPlayType;
+  HTMLMediaElement.prototype.canPlayType = function (t) { return /mpegurl/i.test(t) ? '' : can.call(this, t); };
+});
 await page.setRequestInterception(true);
 const asked = []; // [kind, clip url]
 page.on('request', (r) => {