345440 - mplayerplug-in fails to start playback when mplayer uses xv

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Stier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060624 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060624 Firefox/1.5.0.4

That happens with the latest mplayerplug-in from cvs, firefox-1.5.0.5, mozilla-1.7.13. xv is the xvideo extension of the Xorg server. It works flawlessly when using x11 for video playback. It also seems to depend on the bitrate in that case: using the low bandwidth version works more often than it does not.

firefox-2.0b1 and the latest nightly release failed here, too. Others (mplayerplug-in developer) have replicated that problem.

(MPlayer dev-CVS-20060519-3.4.6)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

Can you point out more precisely why this is related to firefox?

Comment 2

[Mark Stier]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you point out more precisely why this is related to firefox?
> 

I'm not sure whether that is related to firefox/gecko. I have filed a bug with mplayerplug-in, too.

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Please file a new bug if you can reproduce it in Firefox 3.0.1 or newer.

-> WORKSFORME