512933 - video not playing

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Alain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090815 Camino/1.6.9 (like Firefox/2.0.0.23)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090815 Camino/1.6.9 (like Firefox/2.0.0.23)

once page is open, the video (working with Firefox and Safari) does not play

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
blank space for video

Expected Results:  
watch video

able to play video

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Which version of Firefox did you get the video to play ? No Gecko based browser played that video - Firefox 3 pops up a missing plugin bar, although I have Flip4Mac installed, and up to data (2.2.3.7).

Here is the code for the video:

<object width="384" height="285" type="application/x-ms-wmp" data="mms://a988.v101995.c10199.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/988/10199/3f97c7e6/ftvigrp.download.akamai.com/10199/cappuccino/production/publication/France_2/Autre/2009/S35/56834_HD_8h_20090827.wmv">
<param value="full" name="uiMode"/>
<param value="true" name="enableContextMenu"/>
<param value="0" name="stretchToFit"/>
<param value="0" name="CurrentPosition"/>
<param value="mms://a988.v101995.c10199.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/988/10199/3f97c7e6/ftvigrp.download.akamai.com/10199/cappuccino/production/publication/France_2/Autre/2009/S35/56834_HD_8h_20090827.wmv" name="url"/>
<param value="true" name="autostart"/>
</object>

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

In reply to my question above, Alain send me this be email (In the future, please post to bugzilla please).

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No I used Camino latest version and I had the problem (no video on the site http://jt.france2.fr/8h/) just blank page.
No problem with Firefox and/or Safari, just Camino will not play.
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Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

Fwiw,
1. I tested this now with Opera 10rc, and it has the same problem (the video 'window'/player doesn't load).
2. If I paste the direct URL to the video in the URL bar, Camino & Firefox opens the QuickTime player.
mms://a988.v101995.c10199.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/988/10199/3f97c7e6/ftvigrp.download.akamai.com/10199/cappuccino/production/publication/France_2/Autre/2009/S35/56834_HD_8h_20090827.wmv

3. Afaik, Safari supports a limited subset of ActiveX classids that are mapped to its internal Mime types (and that allows to play the video in the browser, using the param value of the <object>).

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

philippe, what would you recommend we do with this bug? It sounds to me like it's INVALID (or TE at best), since it doesn't really work in Firefox either.

Comment 5

[philippe (part-time)]

So, something changed (or more than something, I don't know...), but now I get the movie to load ! The problem(s) now: it doesn't start, the movie controller is mostly invisible, clicking on it - or the white-space where the controller should be - activates the movie, but it stops immediately. It is a little better with Minefield latest, but barely (the work done by Roc on views and Josh on the NSAPI _may_ have improved things).

I suspect that quirkiness can be attributed to Flip4Mac (v2.3.14, labeled as beta on MacUpdate when I downloaded a week ago & compatible with 10.6). I very rarely see sites calling Flip4mac - I think it is the first time since I moved to 10.6 over a week ago.
I don't know if that is a 10.6 specific issue btw.

Quickly looking through the source code, it seems the site changed the way the movie is called, as I know see an <embed>.

I'll mark this as INVALID as the remaining issues are almost certainly not site specific.