1189588 - Potential unsafe use of MediaSourceDemuxer::NotifyTimeRangesChanged

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

This causes the backout of bug 1184867 even though it has nothing to do with this patch.

(it just occurred without that change in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/fx-team-win64/1438288664/fx-team_win8_64_test-web-platform-tests-3-bm119-tests1-windows-build203.txt.gz)

bug 1189138 have slightly changed the timing in which the mediasourcedemuxer is notified of data ; causing the issue to appear.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

Attachment: 0001-Bug-1189588-MSE-Remove-MediaSourceDemuxer-NotifyTime.patch

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/8e247a5f9f97

Comment 3

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

Marking SS based on comment 0 indicating the issue existed prior to the bugs mentioned there.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8e247a5f9f97

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

How severe is this? Does it affect older branches? Do we need to worry about backporting?

Comment 7

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

the new mediasource is only active in 42.

it can be turned on in 41 by switching a pref but I wouldn't worry about it.