544924 - Some video previews/thumbnails do not update while the video is playing (Windows 7 taskbar previews)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 542656

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[u88484]

Some video previews/thumbnails do not update while the video is playing

STR:
1) Load a video at cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#)
2) Load a video at youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzvhSZzRqYg&feature=rec-fresh+div-r-1-HM)
3) Switch focus to another app
3) Hover over the firefox taskbar icon and notice how the video on cnn is still shown as playing in the thumbnail and the youtube video is not.  Hover over the previews and the same results.  Both use flash.

Comment 1

[u88484]

I thought this was an OOPP bug at first so I was checking with the guys in #content.  jimm said, "the code we use to render the thumbnails will need to copy the buffer from the window in the child somehow."

Not sure if that helps you out Rob.

Comment 2

[[not reading bugmail]]

URL from comment 0 step 1 worked, but URL from step 2 still didn't work.

Looks like its a difference between windowed which doesn't work, and windowless which works; using testcase from bug 547142
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=427782

Windowed only gets a snapshot when opening the preview panel, while windowless gets live updating.

Testing using latest hourly Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a2pre) Gecko/20100222 Minefield/3.7a2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) ID:20100222175309

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Does this bug depend on Core bug 313462? See bug 313462 comment 45.

Comment 4

[Rob Arnold [:robarnold]]

Indeed it does.

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 542656 ***

Note, bug 313462 is OOPP/non-OOPP, and is the core bug. Bug 542656 is specific to OOPP windowed plugins not updating. Bug 313462 needs to be fixed first.