21784 - Crash on WAV OBJECTs with QuickTime 4

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Antti Näyhä]

Overview description:
  Mozilla crashes when viewing a page with a audio OBJECT in WAV format
  when the QuickTime 4 plugin is installed.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Install the QuickTime 4 plugin from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
   to a previous version of Navigator
2) Download and install a Mozilla build
3) Copy the old Navigator 'Plugins' directory to your Mozilla directory
4) Start Mozilla
5) View any test at http://www.student.oulu.fi/%7esairwas/object-test/audio/

Actual results:
  Crash.

Expected results:
  An embedded video clip playing on the page.

Build date & platform:
  1999121408 build on Windows NT 4.0 SP6

Additional Information:
  This is what the console window says before crashing:

debug: edburns ns4xPlugin::CreatePlugin
instance start called
Document http://www.student.oulu.fi/%7esairwas/object-test/audio/wav1.html loade
d successfully
Document: Done (5.789 secs)
instance stop/destroy called

Comment 1

[Antti Näyhä]

Additional version information:
  The QuickTime versions tested were 4.0 and 4.0.3, with similar results.
  (Right-click and select 'Properties' on any of the npqtplugin*.dll's
  to see the version number.)

Comment 2

[Antti Näyhä]

> Expected results:
>   An embedded video clip playing on the page.
                ^^^^^
I meant "audio" of course.  Sorry, too little sleep.

Comment 3

[av (gone)]

As to the crash. I created an HTML file with
<object data="test.wav" type="audio/wav">
  alternative text
</object>

and it works perfectly. Antti, do you think it could be irrelevant issue like
style sheets?

Comment 4

[Antti Näyhä]

Here's some more simplified tests:
http://www.netppl.fi/%7esairwas/tests/WAV-OBJECTs/test1/
http://www.netppl.fi/%7esairwas/tests/WAV-OBJECTs/test2/

Both tests include a simple <object data="test.wav" type="audio/wav"></object>

In addition, test 1 has a linked style sheet (a.css) which only imports another,
blank one (b.css).

I've tested M12 and the 1999122208 nightly build - this time on Win98 instead of
WinNT - and the crash seems to be real enough.  On these tests, though,
sometimes you'll have to press reload once to make it appear.

To be sure, I deleted everything else but the npqtplugin*.dll's from the plugins
directory.

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

I tried playing a simple ".wav" file with " <object data="sound.wav"
type="audio/wav"></object> "  in the HTML source code.

The file plays well for the first time. But trying to do anything after that,
like, pressing the RELOAD button or pressing the HOME button..crashes the
browser.

Directly accessing a ".wav" file through hyperlink (like
"http://www.rplayground.com/sounds/blackhrt.wav") does not crash the browser.

Comment 6

[av (gone)]

So we have a crash only on this original site. Also we crash when doing plugin
unload in some occasions. In both these cases the call stack trace does not show
anything but QUICKTIME. I do not feel like we can do anything about it without
the help of the plugin developer. And this is could be a quicktime bug.
Marking WONTFIX.

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

*** Bug 28433 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Antti Näyhä]

I couldn't reproduce this one on Mozilla build 2000-06-09-08 (WinNT4 SP6a) and
Quicktime Plug-in 4.1.2, so I guess one of those have been fixed.  Should this
be reopened and marked Resolved/Worksforme?

(I did experience a crash on http://www.netppl.fi/%7esairwas/tests/WAV-
OBJECTs/test1/ - but that's probably
related to the stylesheet import.  Investigating.)

Comment 9

[Antti Näyhä]

I cannot make build 2000-07-29-08 (WinNT4 SP6a) with QT Plug-in 4.1.2 crash on
any of the tests.  Reopening and marking Resolved/Worksforme.

Comment 10

[Antti Näyhä]

Worksforme

Comment 11

[shrirang khanzode]

Thnx..verified with build 2000080204m17.