1203567 - [FxOS] Video APP keeps loading if a broken video file is copied to sdcard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1198169

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

Description

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

Attachment: h264_192kbps_aacPlus_24kbps_3sec_QVGA_10_fps.3gp

Device:
Aries with my local build.

STR:
1. Copy the attached file to sdcard.
2. Enter the video App 

Actual result:
Video App keeps showing loading message (........), doesn't show new thumbnail and cannot choose other video to play. 

Expected result:
Video App should finish loading and create a new thumbnail.

Comment 1

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

The following is the info I got from ffmpeg -i

ffmpeg version 2.2.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jun  3 2014 06:51:16 with Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.2.3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      52. 66.100 / 52. 66.100
  libavcodec     55. 52.102 / 55. 52.102
  libavformat    55. 33.100 / 55. 33.100
  libavdevice    55. 10.100 / 55. 10.100
  libavfilter     4.  2.100 /  4.  2.100
  libavresample   1.  2.  0 /  1.  2.  0
  libswscale      2.  5.102 /  2.  5.102
  libswresample   0. 18.100 /  0. 18.100
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
[sdp @ 0x7fb51c016e00] Could not find codec parameters for stream 0 (Video: h264, 320x240): unspecified pixel format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' and 'probesize' options
Input #0, sdp, from '/Users/blake/Documents/video/h264_192kbps_aacPlus_24kbps_3sec_QVGA_10_fps.3gp':
  Metadata:
    title           : /h264_192kbps_aacPlus_24kbps_3sec_QVGA_10_fps.3gp
  Duration: 00:01:59.13, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 0 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264, 320x240, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, stereo, fltp

Comment 2

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

I can see this problem on Flame as well. 
It looks like Video App cannot get onloadedmetadata or onerror event, so it keeps showing the loading message. It might get stuck in MetadataRead in Gecko side.

Comment 3

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

After applying the attachment 8660778 [details] [review] in bug 1200401 to my code base, this bug is gone.