Closed Bug 1211378 Opened 9 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Windows: H.264 MP4 file does not play via progressive download

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
41 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: andrej.peterka, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

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Details

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150918100310 Steps to reproduce: Trying to play an MP4 video file which worked in Firefox 40 results in file not loading, only blank square is displayed. Windows 7, 64bit Firefox 41.0.1 1. Open Firefox 41.0.1 2. Enter this URL in the address bar and hit enter: http://psn.sdn.si/psv/15/268/bad.mp4 Actual results: The video did not play. Expected results: The video should play as it did in previous versions of Firefox (40.0.3 works). n.b. Running the MP4 file through ffmpeg with the following CLI: ffmpeg -i bad.mp4 -movflags faststart -c copy good.mp4 produces a working file as can be observed here: http://psn.sdn.si/psv/15/268/good.mp4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 20150929144111 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0 20151004030211 Release: the video doesn't play. 0:00 duration and no preview image shown. Nightly: the video immediately fails to play with a “Video can't be played because the file is corrupt.” error message. Opera 32: works. IE 11: works. I don't believe the “progressive download” bit is relevant, since saving the file locally and opening it yields the same result.
URL: http://psn.sdn.si/psv/15/268/bad.mp4
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Has Regression Range: --- → no
Has STR: --- → yes
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression, testcase
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Whiteboard: [parity-ie][parity-chrome][parity-opera]
FWIW, the file doesn't play on Mac either.
This isn't specific to gstreamer.
No longer blocks: gstreamer
Should make sure this works with the new demuxer too.
Priority: -- → P2
Mass change P2 -> P3
Priority: P2 → P3
Mass bug change to replace various 'parity' whiteboard flags with the new canonical keywords. (See bug 1443764 comment 13.)
Keywords: parity-chrome, parity-ie, parity-opera
Whiteboard: [parity-ie][parity-chrome][parity-opera]
Can't reproduce the file not being available anymore. Please re-open with a new link if this is still happening for you. thank you
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(andrej.peterka)
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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