Bug 714307 - firefox breaks video play
Summary: firefox breaks video play
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-17 21:02 UTC by cornel panceac
Modified: 2018-04-11 08:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-08-30 14:57:37 UTC
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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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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).
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