501652 - playing audio streams using the <audio> tag sounds bad

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Uwe Kaminski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: fennec nightly build 20090630 on Maemo 4.3.1 (5-2008.43-7)

I used a N800 and I was connected on a wifi network. There were no other applications open. I was able to listen to the sound but there were a lot of gaps. All in all listing to the stream was inaudibly.

On my desktop the stream works nice.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start fennec
2. got to: http://alpha.libre.fm/listen/?tag=jazz
3. Start playing a song
Actual Results:  
A lot of small interruptions make listing to the stream inaudibly.

Expected Results:  
Sound without interruption.

Fennec seems to need to much ressources from the whole system to play streams.

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is another bug that needs to be identified as supported or not.

Comment 2

[Craig]

No problems here. Maybe your wifi was the culprit?

Comment 3

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This works for me as well on build:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; Nokia N900; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100419 Namoroka/3.6.5pre Fennec/1.1a2pre

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I get "Streaming provided by Jamendo is currently broken, due to a hardware failure.", so this is currently impossible to verify.

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Still broken.

Comment 6

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

How about the example here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/audio-player-html5/

Comment 7

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Ok, thanks, there is a link on that page to http://hyper-metrix.com/misc/jai/ .
When I try to listen audio on that page, I indeed get a lot of interruptions, which basically makes the music unbearable to hear.
This is tested on a 1.9.3 trunk build from yesterday on the n900.

Comment 8

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I guess this is a ogg decoder problem then?

Comment 9

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Maybe this will help? http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/theora-on-n900/

Comment 10

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Is this fixed now that the Tremor Ogg decoder has landed?

Comment 11

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component