Totem firefox plugin can't launch apple HD trailers

[Jason Erbskorn]

Binary package hint: totem-mozilla

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

Installed x86_64 variant

totem-mozilla:
  Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Totem-mozilla package fails to create a new window when selecting (left click) HD trailers from www.apple.com/trailers, using Firefox. This bug can be worked around by opening the movie in a new tab or window using right click. Adding www.apple.com to the pop-up unblock list does not solve the situation. This is a regression from Ubuntu 8.10, where this functioned perfectly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * What error do you get?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Jason Erbskorn (mrguy)]

Setup: This bug is reproducible using a stock Ubuntu 9.04 x64 desktop installation. I have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed.

Reproducibility Steps: Go to any HD trailer on www.apple.com/trailers (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/hd/ for example). Try to watch a trailer by clicking on one of the HD options (720p for example).

Error: HD trailer will not launch, nothing happens

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is an upstream GNOME one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Robert could you have a look to that bug?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

stdout from firefox when left-clicking on the movie link

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

stdout from firefox when middle-clicking (i.e. open in new tab) on the movie link

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

stdout from firefox when manually loading movie link. This causes the movie to be displayed.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I built and installed the old Ubuntu 8.10 totem (2.24.2) on 9.04 and it didn't fix the problem. Looking at the source for http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/hd/ it appears that something in the javascript may be causing the plugin to be called with the wrong arguments. If you hand-write a simple page with an equivalent link it works.

Possibly a firefox bug?

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Using the firefox DOM inspector shows clicking on this element calls the following:
function anonymous(e) {
    s_objectID = "http://movies.apple.com/movies/paramount/star_trek/startrek-clip_480p.mov_1";
    return this.s_oc ? this.s_oc(e) : true;
}

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I have tried this with the 8.10 live CD and the behaviour appears to be the same. It may be that Apple has changed the HTML/JS in their website since then. I've forwarded this upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580973

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Upstream has confirmed this is a change in the Apple site code and fixed Totem to handle the missing plugin parameter "autohref"

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 2.26.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
totem (2.26.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
   - Add support for autohref, makes trailers on the Apple website work again
     (LP: #368252)
   - Add the cache subtitles directory to the subtitle file selection dialogue's
     shortcuts (LP: #366647)
   - Fix resolve_uri returning an empty URI when trying to resolve
     with a base at the root of a webserver (LP: #362820)

 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Wed, 06 May 2009 12:03:08 +0200

[Patricio (patricio-stwing)]

How do I install this fix in Ubuntu 9.04?
My Totem is 2.26.1 and shows as up to date.
I tried http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26388371/totem-plugins_2.26.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb but it gave me some dependency problems.
Same problem if I use: http://packages.ubunut.com/ko/karmic/i386/totem/download
I guess this is what you call backport? Is there a backport for Jaunty.
I hope I am using the right language.

[Patricio (patricio-stwing)]

This is the error: Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.23)

[zzecool (zzecool)]

Bug is still here in Ubuntu 10.10

Totem Movie Player 2.32.0
Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.30
vlc mozilla plugin (with totem support)

HD and left click = no

Right click open in new tab or new window works great though