498601 - autobuffer audiotag

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video, defect)

Description

[Ingo Ebel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090604 SUSE/3.5b99-86.2 Firefox/3.5b99
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.1b99) Gecko/20090604 SUSE/3.5b99-86.2 Firefox/3.5b99

Firefox 3.5 is buffering an ogg file with html5 audiotag. i can't switch it off. 
the attribute autobuffer dosen't have an effect.

Firefox 3.5 should not autobuffer until the attibute autobuffer is set.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use an OGG-File with <audio>, firefox is buffering
2. set autobuffer false or 0
3. firefox is still autobuffers

Comment 1

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

Can you show the HTML you are using?

It's not possible to set autobuffer to false or 0. Both of those values mean 'autobuffer on'. This is how HTML works. Only the absence of the autobuffer attribute will prevent buffering.

Comment 2

[Matthew Gregan [:kinetik]]

Attachment: testcase

I can't reproduce this.  The attached testcase points contains two <audio> elements pointing at the same audio-only Ogg Vorbis file on tinyvid.tv.  The first element uses the default (non-autobuffering), and the second explicitly requests autobuffering.

There are a few cases where you may see the entire file buffered even when autobuffering is not requested.  If the file is a local file, it always available and thus will always be completely buffered.  If the file is small and/or your link is very fast, a remote file may download completely before we get a chance to suspend the stream.

Comment 3

[Ingo Ebel]

The attachment works. 
Maybe the problem is gone with the preview. the issues was in beta4. it autobuffered video and audio automatically although autobuffer wasn't set at all.

Comment 4

[Matthew Gregan [:kinetik]]

Ah, yes, it would always buffer in beta 4.  Support for suspending streams (and the autobuffer attribute) was added in bug 479863, which landed after beta 4.

Thanks for the bug report!

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

replacing FIXED with WORKSFORME, otherwise this bug would be counted in the wrong list