271985 - firefox / seamonkey starts more than 10 processes of timidity via mozplugger

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dieter Rethmeyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-2) amd Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5

Visiting a page containing embedded midi as
http://www1.bluemountain.com/display.pd?bfrom=1&prodnum=3032370&path=35069
source code:
<noembed><bgsound
src="http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3032370/music.mid" 
loop=infinite></noembed>

<embed src="http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/full/ap/3032370/music.mid" 
width=2 height=0 autostart=true loop=true HIDDEN=TRUE></embed> 

in the URL above, firefox 1.0 and mozilla 1.7.3 start (linux system, tested with
Debian testing and unstable) more than 10 processes of timidity via mozplugger.
Opera and Konqueror are ok, they only start one process with the same entry in
the "mozpluggerrc" file. Mozpluggerrc contains:
##################
### Audio      ###
##################

audio/mid: midi,mid: MIDI audio file
audio/x-mid: midi,mid: MIDI audio file
audio/midi: midi,mid: MIDI audio file
audio/x-midi: midi,mid: MIDI audio file
        controls noisy: timidity -OR "$file"
        controls: playmidi "$file"

The timidity processes occupy nearly 100% CPU load and lead to horrible sound.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mozilla or firefox, timidity and mozplugger on Debian testing or
unstable (linux).
2. Start mozilla 1.7.3 or firefox 1.0
3. Start "top" in a console
4. Load one of the electronic greeting cards of www.bluemountain.com, see "URL".
5. Look at your "top" output and see -> Actual Results

Actual Results:  
Tasks: 133 total,  27 running, 105 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 75.3% us,  8.7% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id, 16.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    516432k total,   192952k used,   323480k free,     2992k buffers
Swap:  1020088k total,   135192k used,   884896k free,    58332k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 2799 dieter    15   0  123m  39m  31m S 15.2  7.8   1:07.85 mozilla-bin
 2630 root      16   0  165m 8288 139m S 10.9  1.6   2:19.36 XFree86
 5810 dieter    18   0 14644 5028  12m R  4.3  1.0   0:00.13 timidity
 5805 dieter    18   0 14644 4780  12m R  4.0  0.9   0:00.12 timidity
 5811 dieter    18   0 14644 4804  12m R  3.6  0.9   0:00.11 timidity
 5802 dieter    18   0 14644 4608  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5803 dieter    18   0 14644 4516  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5806 dieter    18   0 14644 4624  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5807 dieter    18   0 14644 4516  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5812 dieter    18   0 14644 4528  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5813 dieter    18   0 14644 4516  12m R  3.3  0.9   0:00.10 timidity
 5804 dieter    18   0 14644 4508  12m R  3.0  0.9   0:00.09 timidity
 5809 dieter    18   0 14644 4512  12m R  3.0  0.9   0:00.09 timidity
 5814 dieter    17   0 14644 4208  12m R  2.6  0.8   0:00.08 timidity
 5775 dieter    20   0  9984 2660 8136 R  1.3  0.5   0:00.04 timidity
 5787 dieter    20   0  9984 2652 8136 R  1.3  0.5   0:00.04 timidity
 5788 dieter    20   0  9984 2672 8136 R  1.3  0.5   0:00.04 timidity


Expected Results:  
Only one process of timidity should be started.


Tested with localized German versions of firefox and mozilla (Debian packages
"locale-de" installed).

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This would be a bug in mozplugger. If so, you can file a bug on it at
http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=mozplugger .

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.