Bug 714307

Summary:	firefox breaks video play
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	cornel panceac <cpanceac>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, stransky
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Description cornel panceac 2011-06-17 21:02:11 UTC

Description of problem:
if i play an avi file in gnome-mplayer and i do anything with firefox (open or close tab, click link, etc), the video play stops for a moment. i do not have this problem with chromium browser.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
$ rpm -q firefox
firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.i686



How reproducible:
always

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Additional info:

could be that firefox is i/o heavy? same thing happens most of the times if firefox is open (for at least several minutes) and i switch applications with alt-tab, or switch desktops with ctrl-arrow. maybe it's a memory leak after all.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2011-06-23 14:31:20 UTC

Can you check a different player? Like mplayer, vlc or so.

Comment 2 cornel panceac 2011-06-23 20:10:00 UTC

Hello, i tried smplayer and the breaks are present. however, much to my surprise, mplayer itself does not exhibit this problem. also, the problem is not present if i play the video with vlc, xine, totem or kmplayer (maybe that phonon buffering knows why :))

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-08-30 14:57:37 UTC

I am sorry, but I have to blame mplayer. Ask their maintainers why Firefox should be blamed for this problem.

Closing as NOTABUG (for now at least).