791963 - Can't play videos on Dailymotion.com

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Paul Feher]

Nightly 18.0a1 2012-09-17
Device: Samsung Galaxy R (Android 2.3.4), HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3.3)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to dailymotion.com
2. Play any video. 

Expected results:
The video starts playing and is correctly displayed.

Actual results:
The video doesn't play, video player is rendered black no sounds are present, only the pause button is present.

Note:
For Galaxy Nexus (Android 4.1.1) i can reproduce the issue from Bug 786238. I'm using Flash player version 11.1.111.10.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

They are using H.264 video codec when no Flash is installed.

I/OmxPlugin( 3136): FORCE SOFTWARE DECODING
I/OMXCodec( 3136): [OMX.google.h264.decoder] AVC profile = 66 (Baseline), level = 30
I/OMXCodec( 3136): [OMX.google.h264.decoder] video dimensions are 320 x 240
I/OMXCodec( 3136): [OMX.google.h264.decoder] Crop rect is 320 x 240 @ (0, 0)

H.264 video works for me when I hit the play button.

Comment 2

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Paul, is this bug the same problem as bug 786238? I see that your Galaxy R and Desire Z are Gingerbread devices.

Comment 3

[Paul Feher]

I don't think this is the same issue, because as Adrian said in bug 786238 he couldn't reproduce the issue on an HTC Desire Z device meaning his issue was not exclusively a Gingerbread issue, also in my case the video never starts(no sound no image) meanwhile in his case the audio starts playing but the video is never rendered.

Aaron, I already tried with plug-ins disabled but the videos can't be played. I can't uninstall Flash for this devices.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

on Android 4.4, I have no issues with Firefox Aurora 34. Is it still going on?

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Works for me too, Nexus 5 (Android 4.4.4). If video doesn't play properly on other devices, it's likely a core libstagefright problem.

Comment 6

[u421692]

I was just about to comment on this:
I've tested on various devices, and after some investigation, I observed that after setting stagefright.force-enabled to "true" and restarting Firefox, I was able to play videos on Dailymotion.com.