Open Bug 1450854 Opened 8 years ago Updated 8 months ago

Youtube fails to play

Categories

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

59 Branch
defect

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UNCONFIRMED

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(Reporter: djmooty, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0 Build ID: 20180323154952 Steps to reproduce: Brought up a youtube video from an email link. Showed progress in loading content but no video or audio display. Clicking on load time time shows individual frames. Restarted system and repeated. same results. Copied web address and pasted into Chrome. Played correctly. Actual results: Didn't play video Expected results: should have played see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQBC2eNN1Gq6Nf7sg9QmrWmrHmCucWrbr
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
I'm not able to repro with with Fx 59 or 62 on Mac. The first two videos in that playlist start to play just fine for me. Can you still reproduce this problem?
Rank: 25
Flags: needinfo?(djmooty)
Priority: -- → P3
Yes, I could repeat the problem on 59 and also when I upgraded to 60. Image flashes just briefly and then goes blank but progress continues. Windows 10 64 bit current version Toshiba satellite A660 laptop 8 gb
Flags: needinfo?(djmooty)
Finally resolved problem by not allowing hardware acceleration. Firefox 61.0.1 Windows 10 home 1803 64 bit Toshiba Satellite A660 I7-2630QM
Severity: normal → S3
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