314323 - crash loading embedded WMV

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[rayfeldt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

AS page http://www.compfused.com/directlink/980/ loads a firefox error box appears: Firefox cannot continue. When box is clicked firefox closes (crashes).

This page loads fine in Internet Explorer; This page uses Windows Media Player
I have media player 9:00:00:3250

I have noticed that when I try to open a Windows Media Player file in a new window it does not display in the window but opens Windows media player. Perhaps because the page contains the WMV file as part of the page firefox crashes?




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open  http://www.compfused.com/directlink/980/
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Error box firefox cannot continue displays, clicking ok, firefox exits

Expected Results:  
display video

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051029 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005102906

WFM.
Plays an embedded video.

Comment 2

[Eric Zen]

I'm having a similar problem with wmv's from comedycentral.com.
It should be noted, at least in my case two important factors:
1) It loads fine when revisiting the link (via session manager extension)
2) When using external player extension MediaPlayerConnectivity it will not crash.

Furthermore, I'm on Linux using 1.5.0 and am not "a sufficiently empowered user" to either confirm the bug or note it's presence on another operating system or Firefox version.

Complain to the Dutch,

-Eric

Comment 3

[Eric Zen]

Follow-up

I've noticed minor problems relating to MPlayer (which I primarily use embedded).  I've just learned that every time I use MPlayer, it starts with this error message:

[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy.

Despite that, it continues to play content without a problem.  The error is most likely some funk on mplayer; however, handling an exception by crashing is likely to be an unintended feature of firefox.  I've not built the kernel on this system (fedora core 5 pre--current-), but this may only be an issue with OSS users (and possibly OSS-simulation).

Comment 4

[Eric Zen]

I now can confirm this is a an exception handling problem, having tried the attached URL with both MediaPlayerConnectivity and without.  Mplayer (used by default by firefox) chokes an error out even on the downloaded file:

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

Xine does not have a problem playing the format, however.

Summary may ought to be changed to "Crashes when plugin returns an error."

I'm also guessing that OS ought to be "All" though distribution variants and personal setup may prevent that from being technically true.  And I'd go further to suggest, with the difference between 1.0 and 1.5, one might guess that this Version ought to be "Trunk," and I would solidly suggest some "empowered" user confirm this bug as "New."


Addendum:

Looking for bugs that mention crash, plugin and error, I notice that, among half of those marked critical, there's a running theme there:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Firefox&content=crash+exception+plugin

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

reporter: do you still see the problem?

Please try with the new plugin (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Windows_Media_Player#Installing_the_new_plugin) and report results here

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

Page uses Flash now and no response from reporter.