1230699 - Firefox doesn't stop buffering destroyed video elements

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[stephen.r.burrows]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.73 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I followed the instructions in MDN on how to stop video playback: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Using_HTML5_audio_and_video#Stopping_the_download_of_media

Specifically, my code to remove and stop buffering the video reads as follows:

        videoEl.pause(0);
        videoEl.src = '';
        videoEl.removeAttribute('src');
        videoEl.remove();


Actual results:

The video keeps buffering until the entire thing is loaded.


Expected results:

The buffer should've stopped immediately, as described in the MDN docs.

Comment 1

[stephen.r.burrows]

In case it's relevant, the video element in question has autoplay and preload="auto"

Comment 2

[[:Towkir] Ahmed]

is there any specific webpage/url/testcase so that we can have a look ?
What happens with other browsers?
what happens if you remove autoplay and preload="auto" ??

Comment 3

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

This is sounds like the lifetime issues we've been working on.

Comment 4

[Anthony Jones (:ajones, :kentuckyfriedtakahe, :k17e)]

Mass change P2 -> P3