Closed Bug 1111082 Opened 10 years ago Closed 7 years ago

gxine plugin selected for video/quicktime while the Preferences dialog says VLC

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
34 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: vincent-moz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141125180439

Steps to reproduce:

Open http://www.zootropefilms.fr/v2/pro/DOCS%20FILMS/PARADJANOV/Video%20Promo%20Venue%20Serge%20Avedikian%20Comoedia.MOV (which has mediatype video/quicktime).


Actual results:

The gxine plugin was used (and didn't work due to missing codec or something like that).


Expected results:

The VLC plugin should have been used. Indeed, Preferences → Applications says for QuickTime video: "Use VLC Web Plugin (in Firefox)".

Note: the about:plugins page says:

gxine starter plugin

    File: gxineplugin.so
    Path: /usr/lib/gxine/gxineplugin.so
    Version:
    State: Enabled
    will start external gxine media player for embedded media streams
[...]
video/quicktime    Quicktime animation    mov,qt
[...]

VLC Web Plugin

    File: libvlcplugin.so
    Path: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so
    Version:
    State: Enabled
    Version 2.1.4 Rincewind, copyright 1996-2012 VideoLAN and Authors http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
[...]
video/quicktime    QuickTime video    mov,qt
[...]
This is reproducible in safe mode with a new profile.
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
I'm marking this bug as WONTFIX per bug #1269807.

For more information see - https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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