513669 - HTML5/video tag doesn't support external/subfolder SRC

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Giacomo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; it; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; it; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

Firefox 3.5.2 works perfectly with OGV files contained in the same folder, while it refuses to play files in other folders or sites, a grey background with an X in the center appears, no errors or warnings at all in the error console.

-- EXAMPLE OF WORKING TAG --
<video class="v" src="myvideo.ogv" />

-- THESE ARE JUST NON-WORKING EXAMPLES --
<video src="http://www.myexamplesite.com/myvideo.ogv" controls />
<video src="myfolder/sub/myvideo.ogv">Blablabla</video>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use the VIDEO tag with as SRC an external video or a video in a subfolder
Actual Results:  
A video player with fixed width and height and grey background with an X in the center appears.

Expected Results:  
The video player included in firefox should load the video and let you play it.

Tested in local and on a website on a (local) virtual machine.

Comment 1

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

This is an example of a video served off a different domain:

http://tinyvid.tv/show/1w6h89i4fdatu

The page is at tinyvid.tv, the video src is set to http://media.tinyvid.tv/file/foo.ogg

This plays fine. I have other examples that work too. Can you provide a bit more information or a URL to a live example?

Are you sure the videos on the other site or in the folder are being served with the correct mime type?

Comment 2

[Giacomo]

Yes, the example I'm trying with is this one:
http://www.whispersofazerothwow.org/downloads/tutorial.macos.hosts.ogv

The MIME type is correct, I can download it too. Maybe it's a server restriction? If yes, which tecnology does Firefox use to read the files?

Thank you
Giacomo

Comment 3

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

The video is being served with a mime type of text/plain. It needs to be served with a mime type of video/ogg or application/ogg.

Comment 4

[Giacomo]

How can I check it (not only via firefo, but also via terminal if you want)? When I attempt to go to that link the download manager says "OGG Video". In case, how can I let the server serve the file as OGG Video?

Comment 5

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

I checked it using wget:

  wget -S http://example.com/foo.ogg

Look at the Content-Type header.

What server are you using?

Comment 6

[Giacomo]

I'm using a linux hosting with apache as web server. Is there any setting I may ask the provider to enable?

Comment 7

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

Yes, see here for details:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/TheoraCookbook/MyHosting