Bug 10530

Summary:	HTML5 video in firefox
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Christian Müller <chmos>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	D Morgan <dmorganec>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser, mageia
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/livestream217.html
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox-17.0.6-1.mga3	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Christian Müller 2013-06-14 20:23:45 CEST

Description of problem:

HTML5 video seems to be broken in firefox. In Mageia 2 the above link worked, and after upgrading to Mageia 3 on both my desktop and laptop video playback is broken (youtube html for some reason works). 

On my laptop sound is ok, but video is only black&white, lspci:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
module radeon

On my desktop sound is ok, too, but video is only some flicker, lspci:
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
module i915

With opera video is ok.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 David Walser 2013-08-11 01:19:04 CEST

Have you tried the firefox package from the tainted media?

CC: (none) => luigiwalser
Assignee: bugsquad => dmorganec

Comment 2 Christian Müller 2013-08-12 15:59:16 CEST

There is no 'tainted' Firefox.

Comment 3 David Walser 2013-08-12 16:44:08 CEST

Ahh indeed, sorry.  Firefox uses gstreamer stuff for HTML5, so you might need the relevant tainted versions of those packages.

Comment 4 Sander Lepik 2013-08-12 16:53:42 CEST

Where is the HTML5 video there? All I was able to dig up was flash player. Are you sure you have flash player plugin installed and you are not using gnash or something like that? Or how can I enable HTML5 mode there?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 5 Christian Müller 2013-08-15 16:42:39 CEST

Y(In reply to Sander Lepik from comment #4)
> Where is the HTML5 video there? All I was able to dig up was flash player.
> Are you sure you have flash player plugin installed and you are not using
> gnash or something like that? Or how can I enable HTML5 mode there?

You are right, it's flash video, my fault. So it look like some issue between firefox and flash plugin. Opera and Konqueror which use the same plugin play this flash content without any problem.

Comment 6 David Walser 2013-08-15 18:17:55 CEST

I tried it on Mageia 2 and Mageia 3 and the thing shows up, but when I click play a circle in the middle just spins round and round and it never plays.  Maybe a broken website.  Anyway, likely not a packaging issue.  Marking as INVALID.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 7 Christian Müller 2013-08-16 16:17:50 CEST

(In reply to David Walser from comment #6)
> I tried it on Mageia 2 and Mageia 3 and the thing shows up, but when I click
> play a circle in the middle just spins round and round and it never plays. 
> Maybe a broken website.  Anyway, likely not a packaging issue.  Marking as
> INVALID.

The website isn't broken, and I could add much more examples. I found out some more in the meantime, and so I'll do an new bugreport on firefox and flash.

Comment 8 David Walser 2013-08-16 17:06:54 CEST

OK, but unless you find it works on other Linux distros, there may not be anything we can do about it.  It might be a problem with Flash itself.

Comment 9 Christian Müller 2013-08-18 16:44:18 CEST

applied it to bug 9984

Comment 10 David Walser 2013-08-18 16:54:37 CEST

Yes I saw, but that's a different issue.  The one you linked in this bug doesn't work on Mageia 2 either.  The Bug 9984 issue does not affect Mageia 2.