1151811 - [Linux] Can't play MP4 served with Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[florin arjocu]

Attachment: The html5 movie mime error in Firefox

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150328224110

Steps to reproduce:

I am trying to watch this movie: http://superweb.rol.ro/video/3/70f9681c36b4c9ebbcf865fa868bb186.html
(you will get 1-2 popups before actually getting to the movie, you can close them)


Actual results:

Error, not recognizing the mime type.


Expected results:

Play the HTML5 movie. Google Chrome does, so I guess it should play in Firefox, too.

Comment 1

[Loic]

WFM with FF37 on Win 7: http://i.imgur.com/FHaX6l8.jpg

Do you see any errors in the web console?

Comment 2

[florin arjocu]

Yes, 3 issues are there:

1: Security wrapper denied access to property _gaUserPrefs on privileged Javascript object. Support for exposing privileged objects to untrusted content via __exposedProps__ is being gradually removed - use WebIDL bindings or Components.utils.cloneInto instead. Note that only the first denied property access from a given global object will be reported.

2: Media resource http://sv11.fastupload.ro/download/fff63b2c9467203bc87864cf91fbc189/5523eed6/mp4/70f9681c36b4c9ebbcf865fa868bb186.mp4 could not be decoded.

3: All candidate resources failed to load. Media load paused.

Ubuntu Linux, Firefox 37.0.1, latest updates.

Comment 3

[florin arjocu]

If I click the link to the movie, I get this: Video can't be played because the file is corrupt. Chrome plays it.

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

The server response is
HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Works: 37.0.1 in Windows 7 x64.
Fails: 37.0.1 in Linux Mint KDE 17.1. I've verified that I can play MP4 files elsewhere [1], so it's not a case of missing GStreamer.

[1] http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html

Comment 5

[florin arjocu]

Does anyone know if there will be a fix for this? I still get the bug, just got it here: http://superweb.rol.ro/video/3/35cc8d79a7d1b49ef22c908b50e228ee.html

Comment 6

[Loic]

Does it work with previous vrsions of FF on Linux?

Comment 7

[Gingerbread Man]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

Firefox 26 was the earliest to support H.264 in Linux. It doesn't play the videos either.

Comment 8

[florin arjocu]

Cannot tell for sure, but I think that since I reported the bug there was at least one Firefox update, so as it still cannot play it, I guess it is not a new bug.

Comment 10

[florin arjocu]

This also affects Firefox for Android, I cannot play it on android either, version 41.
Test it with this link: http://superweb.rol.ro/video/m/98e202b93450dc03f7da1f3f1956b1e6.html)

Comment 11

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

To check

Comment 12

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

This is fixed in Nightly now that we have a PlatformDecoderModule on Linux and can use the new MediaFormatReader (bug 1207429)