411035 - Weird 5-7 minute delay before CNN video starts playback in Linux (no delay in Windows)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

1. Surf to this URL:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/12/19/btsc.tuchman.roadsideprayer/#cnnSTCVideo
2. On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibben with Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Flash 9.0 r48 I get a 5-7 minute delay before the video playback starts.
3. On w2k with Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Flash 9.0 r115 there is no such delay, playback starts more or less right away.

note 1: both machines are on the same internet gateway
note 2: even after I played this video once on Linux, opening this URL a second time still exhibits this weird delay before playback

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[martin]

Tried again with FF 3.0.7 and Flash 10 under Jaunty pre-release. Now the Flash starts properly.

The video still doesn't play (it shows an error about my firewall) but I don't think that has anything to do with FF or Flash.