Bug 468853 - GNU Stephen Fry video fails to play in Firefox
Summary: GNU Stephen Fry video fails to play in Firefox
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 458404
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: totem
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bastien Nocera
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-28 12:53 UTC by Rob Gilton
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:53 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-28 18:30:32 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Warning popup about proprietary and free formats. (86.28 KB, image/png)
2008-10-28 17:11 UTC, Rob Gilton
no flags Details

Description Rob Gilton 2008-10-28 12:53:48 UTC
Description of problem:
The 'Freedom Fry - "Happy Birthday to GNU"' video on the GNU website fails to play in Firefox.  One would expect this to play, given that GNU isn't going to publish a video that's based on proprietary goo.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox.
2. Go to http://www.gnu.org/fry/
3. Click play
  
Actual results:
Video completely fails to play.

Expected results:
Video playing.  Cheese and all.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2008-10-28 16:49:06 UTC
a) they used Java applet for playing the video (which seems silly to me -- I would prefer OGG, which they have only as an alternative download, but whatever),
b) works on Rawhide -- I don't know whether there will be java upgraded for F9

Works with:
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-1.1.b12.fc10.i386
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.1.b12.fc10.i386

Anyway, reassigning to java folks.

Comment 2 Rob Gilton 2008-10-28 17:11:58 UTC
Created attachment 321710 [details]
Warning popup about proprietary and free formats.

It's somewhat surprising that it's telling me an Ogg Theora + Ogg Vorbis video is a proprietary format...

Comment 3 Rob Gilton 2008-10-28 17:13:38 UTC
I've just tried it out in a new user on my machine.  It first tries Java, then it tries Totem.  The Totem one seems to work after telling me that the video is in a proprietary format (which is a load of bunk, as it's Ogg Theora).

Comment 4 Mark Wielaard 2008-10-28 17:30:33 UTC
This isn't a java plugin problem, but a totem/firefox plugin problem.

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2008-10-28 18:30:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 458404 ***


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