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The original report is still available at support #107708

Following are the information included in the original report:

[field #0]                  Item ID: 107708
[field #1]                 Group ID: 10711
[field #2]              Open/Closed: Closed
[field #3]                 Severity: 1 - Wish
[field #4]                  Privacy: Public
[field #7]                         : Unknown support Field Display Type
[field #8]                         : Unknown support Field Display Type
[field #9]                 Category: Support for new website
[field #10]             Submitted by: None
[field #11]              Assigned to: valkov
[field #12]             Submitted on: Mon 30 May 2011 11:07:36 AM GMT
[field #13]                  Summary: The Onion
[field #14]      Original Submission: Videos aren't playing on The Onion dot com.
[field #15]                Closed on: Mon 01 Aug 2011 07:07:23 PM GMT
[field #16]               Item Group: None
[field #17]                   Status: Done
[field #18]        Component Version: None
[field #19]         Operating System: GNU/Linux
[field #20]          Reproducibility: None
[field #21]               Size (loc): None
[field #22]            Fixed Release: None
[field #23]          Planned Release: None
[field #24]                   Effort: 0.00
[field #28]                 Priority: 5 - Normal
[field #31]         Percent Complete: 0%
[field #33]                  Release: 0.0.9-6
[field #36]         Originator Email: kenwfoyjr@lavabit.com
[field #58]     Custom Select Box #1: None
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[field #60]     Custom Select Box #3: None
[field #61]     Custom Select Box #4: None
[field #62]     Custom Select Box #5: None
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It seems stable enough for me. It is almost ready to be marked as Done. The code in 0.0.9-7 has some features stripped, because they were too buggy to be fixed in time.

The code in trunk is able to switch video clips at the front page, but needs more work to clear few more glitches.

I was able to find out how to get video links. A XHR request with video clip ID returns JSON object with video URL  and other data. It is at the same domain, so it should be possible to use it in Linterna Mágica.

The URL format is :
http://www.theonion.com/ajax/onn/embed/<ID>.json

Each video is placed in <iframe> tag. It seems there is HTML5 version for Apple products. It might be triggered by user-agent sniffing. It is not working in Epiphany, which uses WebKit and has Safari  strings in its user-agent.

When working code is available in trunk I will post new comment here.