gecko cant play these files in the browser

[sdowney717]

Binary package hint: gecko-mediaplayer

video files when clicked in the browser, will start caching, but will never start playing even when cache reaches 100%.

http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/studentnews/rss.xml/
http://rss.cnn.com/services/podcasting/amanpour_video/rss/?format=xml

if i open like this they play fine
gnome-mplayer http://rss.cnn.com/~r/services/podcasting/studentnews/rss/~5/a4647ZN9yC0/sn.12.03.09.cnn.m4v

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 3 13:04:04 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 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: gecko-mediaplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

[Kevin DeKorte (kdekorte-gmail)]

I think this has been fixed in SVN already.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Yes, dupe of #489191.