Closed Bug 1165637 Opened 10 years ago Closed 9 years ago

YouTube videos do not play in an e10s window with H.264 enabled and webm disabled.

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
41 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
e10s - ---
firefox44 --- verified

People

(Reporter: Zaggy1024, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: Needs more reliable STR)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150515030202 Steps to reproduce: 1. Start up Firefox Nightly with E10S enabled. 2. In about:config set "media.mediasource" and "media.mediasource.mp4" enabled and "media.mediasource.webm" disabled. 3. Open a YouTube video (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0tsvRctTY4) and attempt to play it. Actual results: The video does not play (buffering icon shows indefinitely with a black background). Looking at the debug information, it seems as though the video began to buffer, but then stopped after about a second or so. (screenshot of debug information: http://i.imgur.com/Y5v8Ie2.png) Pausing and playing does nothing, and when attempting to seek, the UI becomes stuck showing the thumbnails of the video. Expected results: The video should buffer successfully and begin to play.
In an e10s window, the video loads and begins playing nearly instantly. As far as I can tell (from my very limited perspective), this seems to be an issue with e10s.
I can't check whether this occurs in safe mode because it disables e10s (without changing the checkbox state in the options page), and it can't be re-enabled without restarting the browser.
Comment 1 says that you're able to get the video playing in an e10s window. Is that a typo?
Flags: needinfo?(Zaggy1024)
Oh, yeah. Sorry, I meant to say that it works in a non-e10s window.
Flags: needinfo?(Zaggy1024)
Tracy - are you able to reproduce this?
Flags: needinfo?(twalker)
I've had the same problem - enabling webm as a media source in about:config fixes the problem and I can watch videos on YouTube. Looking at the Network tab of the developer tools, it looks like YouTube buffers the video by loading both mp4 and webm files, which is why it doesn't work otherwise.
I am unable to reproduce. my browser is default set to those settings in STR #2. Have no trouble with youtube videos in general and no problem with the one specifically suggested in STR #3.
Flags: needinfo?(twalker)
Ill try with Windows.
Flags: needinfo?(twalker)
I cannot reproduce on Windows SurfacePro either.
Flags: needinfo?(twalker)
minus until we get good str.
tracking-e10s: --- → -
Whiteboard: Needs more reliable STR
Video doesn't play but progress bar keeps progressing and audio keeps playing. Windows 7. 64 bit. Firefox Aurora 41. [Testday-20150731]
the video loads and begins playing , in wondow 8.1
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
Zaggy1024 or Moin, can you still reproduce this YouTube problem in Firefox 43?
@Chris Peterson(In reply to Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] from comment #13) > Zaggy1024 or Moin, can you still reproduce this YouTube problem in Firefox > 43? I just tested in my available version Firefox 44.0b8, it works fine. Plays video and audio as expected.
Thanks for testing, Moin!
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
status-firefox44: --- → verified
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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