445487 - Pause button only working intermittently when listening to radio show

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[James Hutchinson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

When trying to pause a radio broadcast on the BBC iPlayer, the pause/play button only works very intermittently - the button will only work maybe 1 click in 20. Also, the resume feature will sometimes not work and jump back to the beginning of the broadcast. All works fine in Safari.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cj99p
2.Click 'click to play'
3.Try to pause the broadcast


Expected Results:  
Should pause the broadcast and enable resume

Comment 1

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I can't reproduce this.  I tested with FF3 and FF3.0.1 on OS X 10.4.11
and 10.5.4.

Though I did see that you have to move the mouse a bit (after clicking
the button) to make the pause/play button's display update.  (The
latter problem is cross-platform (it's much worse on Linux), and
appears to be a bug in the Real Player plugin.)

The BBC's iPlayer uses the Real Player (and its plugin).  The current
version is 11.0.0.  If you're using an earlier version you should
probably upgrade.  (To see which version of Real Player you've got
installed, right-click on "Real Player" in your Applications folder
and choose "Get Info".)

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

James emailed me to say he's also seeing this issue in Safari, and
that he's using Real Player 11.0.0.  So this is presumably a problem
(possibly Mac only) with the Real Player (and/or its plugin), and not
with any Mozilla.org browser.

So I'm marking this INVALID.