Check Box .mov test fails because there is no .mov support

[albert fishnets]

Binary package hint: firefox

When Check Box test Firefox .mov playback for Quicktime, it fails because Ubuntu 10.10 Beta does not have .mov support by default.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxCommand: firefox $CHECKBOX_SHARE/data/video/Quicktime_Video.mov
CheckboxDescription:
 Click the "Test" button to launch Firefox with a sample video.

 Did the video play using a plugin?
CheckboxTest: applications-firefox-totem
Date: Wed Sep 8 09:00:53 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
 firefox-branding 3.6.9+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: firefox

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Not a firefox bug

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Perhaps checkbox should check for media codec support before running a specific test then.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Since this is a manual test, the user should really skip the test if they know the codec is not supported (rather than the test failing despite the codec being supported). Admittedly it would be nice if these manual tests skipped automatically if they know of a reason why the test won't work (i.e. missing codec)

I think the importance should be wishlist.

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Or perhaps Low

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Though the Quicktime test is no longer included on whitelists, it still exhibits this problem; for the browser plugin to be able to play the .mov file, it's needed to have the gstreamer ffmpeg plugins installed.

One way to avoid running the test if the system doesn't have the approprite plugins in place, would be to add a requires to the job:

plugin: manual
name: software/firefox-totem
depends: software/firefox
requires: package.name == 'firefox' and package.name == 'gstreamer-0.10-ffmpeg'

However, I do notice that recent versions of the test specifically state:

"Note: this may require installing additional software to successfully complete."

The gstreamer-0.10-ffmpeg is valid on Quantal as of today (and Precise, obviously). However, things are bound to change on Quantal, something to keep in mind.

Since we know what we need to do to fix this, I'll mark as Triaged.