1120242 - Shumway fails to play the video with Uppod Flash player: "Content-Type" of "video/x-flv" is not supported

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Graveyard :: Shumway, defect)

Description

[Shmerl]

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

Steps to reproduce:

Opened the test page at http://uppod.ru/samples/js/test.html (it works with stock Flash).


Actual results:

Shumway failed to display video


Expected results:

Shumway must have played the video properly

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Thanks, Shmerl. I can reproduce the problem you reported. The following error messages are logged to the browser console:

...
HTTP "Content-Type" of "video/x-flv" is not supported. Load of media resource http://uppod.net/sample.flv failed. viewer.html
"UppodEvent: play" viewerPlayer.js:29:2
"UppodEvent JS: play" viewerPlayer.js:29:2
"assertion failed" shumway.player.js:132:16
...

Comment 2

[Shmerl]

(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #1)
> Thanks, Shmerl. I can reproduce the problem you reported. The following
> error messages are logged to the browser console:
> 
> ...
> HTTP "Content-Type" of "video/x-flv" is not supported. Load of media

Does Shumway rely only on built-in video support or it can leverage Gstreamer for example? The later should support FLV container.

Comment 3

[Till Schneidereit [:till]]

(In reply to Shmerl from comment #2)
> Does Shumway rely only on built-in video support or it can leverage
> Gstreamer for example? The later should support FLV container.

We use different media backends depending on the platform. On Linux, gstreamer is one option, IIRC. In any case, it's not just the container, it's also, and more importantly, the codec the contained stream uses. We're looking into supporting vp6, the older video codec that was in popular use in Flash a few years back.

Comment 4

[Shmerl]

With current version of Shumway (0.11.617) in Firefox 42, the sample referenced in the bug ( http://uppod.ru/samples/js/test.html ) doesn't even load the initial UI of the player when Flash is disabled and Shumway is enabled. It's worse than before when the UI was coming up, but video didn't work.

Comment 5

[Shmerl]

What does it mean "incomplete" in this case?