Comment 4 for bug 489191

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sdowney717 (sdowney717) wrote : RE: [Bug 489191] Re: mozilla browser plugin cant play these m4v files

thanks very much, it does play now.
but it must fully cache before it will start playing instead of caching a little and playing.

> Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:10:06 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 489191] Re: mozilla browser plugin cant play these m4v files
>
> karmic users can download a package with the fix from my ppa:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~norsetto/+archive/ppa
>
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> mozilla browser plugin cant play these m4v files
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489191
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> Status in “gecko-mediaplayer” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “gnome-mplayer” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gecko-mediaplayer
>
> hi, i wonder if you can look into this.
> mozilla browser plugin at nova vodcast site some m4v's play in the browser and some dont
>
> http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/wgbh/nova-video/
> when you click on say
>
> NSN | Hunt for Alien Earths
> 11/20/2009 12:00 PM
>
> Media files
> http://feeds.pbs.org/~r/pbs/wgbh/nova-video/~5/2D0HMNc3GUg/nsn_v_segment_alienearths.m4v
>
> the player will cache all the way to 100% but never play the video
> some the files do play, some do not.
> when checking the properties, i saw a few differences in frame rate and size between the ones that play and the ones that wont play.
> mplayer will play it off the site.
>
> mplayer http://feeds.pbs.org/~r/pbs/wgbh/nova-video/~5/2D0HMNc3GUg/nsn_v_segment_alienearths.m4v
>
> but the browser plugin wont play.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Nov 27 08:24:55 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8-1ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
> SourcePackage: gecko-mediaplayer
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
>
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