Bug 468853 – GNU Stephen Fry video fails to play in Firefox

Bug 468853 - GNU Stephen Fry video fails to play in Firefox

Summary:	GNU Stephen Fry video fails to play in Firefox

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 458404

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	totem (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bastien Nocera
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-10-28 08:53 EDT by Rob Spanton
Modified:	2018-04-11 10:53 EDT (History)
CC List:	9 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-10-28 14:30:32 EDT
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Warning popup about proprietary and free formats. (86.28 KB, image/png) 2008-10-28 13:11 EDT, Rob Spanton	no flags	Details
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Description Rob Spanton 2008-10-28 08:53:48 EDT

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 12:49:06 EDT

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 Spanton 2008-10-28 13:11:58 EDT

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 Spanton 2008-10-28 13:13:38 EDT

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 13:30:33 EDT

This isn't a java plugin problem, but a totem/firefox plugin problem.

Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2008-10-28 14:30:32 EDT


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

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