237474 - Crash when playing any Real media files using Real Alternative 1.21

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[codewzrd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When trying to play any Real files using the plugin provided by Real Alternative
1.21, Firefox crashes.  This is happens on any Real files played using the
browser plug-in.

I have installed Quicktime Alternative, Real Alternative, and Media Player Classic.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/top10.asp
2. Click on a song link (next to the star rating).
3. Firefox pops up a new window. Assuming that, that is where the plugin is
being loaded.

Actual Results:  
A dialog box pops up.  Dr. Watson I think.  "Firefox has generated errors.  An
error log is being created."


Expected Results:  
Play the file without crashing.

Comment 1

[codewzrd]

Attachment: Dr. Watson log file.

Contains stack trace file.

Comment 2

[J'Doe]

mozilla 1.6 creates the same crash over here..

btw. i'm using real alternative 1.22

Comment 3

[codewzrd]

Yes same thing happens with Real Alternative 1.22.

Forgot to mention this earlier in my first post; it works great with IE 6 (both
versions 1.21, 1.22). :(  No crashes, no problems.

Comment 4

[J'Doe]

.. but wrong browser :D

Comment 5

[J'Doe]

mozilla 1.6 still crashes when using real alt v1.23

Comment 6

[u63580]

A problem with real alternative, rather than Mozilla?

Comment 7

[J'Doe]

(In reply to comment #6)
> A problem with real alternative, rather than Mozilla?

well, why is it working with IE then?

Comment 8

[u63580]

Quite often we see this with, for example, display drivers, printer drivers,
etc.  A specific call by Mozilla triggers a bug in the drive, which is not shown
up by other software.  But that doesn't make it a Moz bug - apps that Mozilla
calls should "behave" as expected, and handle errors themselves cleanly.  I just
wondered if this is a similar issue - something specifically wrong in
RealAlternative which IE doesn't call, but which Mozilla does.  I'm no
programmer - this needs someone who knows their stuff to look at it!

Comment 9

[Robin Monks]

*** Bug 243265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[J'Doe]

hm.. dunno why exactly, but suddenly it works for me. seems like real alternate
player has to be installed fully w/all components even though i had media player
classic 6.4.xx installed at another location already. my guess is that mozilla
crashes when real alternate cannot find a proper player (wmp classic) at the
default installation location from real alt install routine. so @all that have a
prob, try real alt 1.23 full install and see if that may work for you.

Comment 11

[David Clayton]

Just out of interest, my Linux Firefox 1.0 also crashes with those files.

I first found this when trying to listen to the streaming audio at:

www.rrr.org.au

My version info is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0
(Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0.0+dfsg.1-6ubuntu1~4.10ubp1)

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

does this still reproduce or you?
note: website is now flash

Comment 13

[codewzrd]

Boy this is a really old bug. I haven't used Real Player in ages. I say close this ticket.