totem-mozilla plugin does not load when content is contained in a frameset

[Dan Robinson]

Binary package hint: totem-mozilla

totem-mozilla: 2.26.1-0ubuntu5 0
Ubuntu: 9.04 with all updates installed
Firefox: 3.0.9

When I attempt to play a file that is in a frame contained in a frameset, such that the toplevel address in the address bar does not change, totem-mozilla chokes on load and no plugin is displayed; just a blank screen. Navigating directly to the content in question works, so I know it's not an issue with the plugin.

When launching Firefox from the command line, it reveals totem complaining about "cannot find base URI" or something similar. (I can't remember it character for character, and I can't look easily due to installing the mplayer plugin because I needed to see the content right away; when I get a chance, I'll put up all of the chatter)

It should just play the video. This was the behavior under 2.24 under Fedora, and is the behavior of the MPlayer plugin.

Note: this is quite possibly an upstream bug.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, may you tell us an example web page containing those videos to test with? thanks.

[Dan Robinson (dlrobinson)]

Unfortunately not. The "site" where I observed the issue was a computerized school course distributed via CD, which I can't really transfer. It did appear to be manufactured using the Windows help tools, so possibly any Windows help file containing videos viewed in Firefox should work.

If I ever come across an actual website where the problem is present, I'll post it, though.

[Dan Robinson (dlrobinson)]

I got around to getting the debug messages from totem:

** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: totemPlugin [0x3c97a70]
** Message: Init mimetype 'audio/ogg' mode 2
** Message: Failed to get the base URI
** Message: ~totemPlugin [0x3c97a70]
** Message: NP_Initialize
** Message: NP_Initialize succeeded
** Message: totemPlugin [0x3cadb10]
** Message: Init mimetype 'audio/ogg' mode 2
** Message: Failed to get the base URI
** Message: ~totemPlugin [0x3cadb10]

I've attached a tarball containing a skeleton frameset where one frame contains a link to media. This will reliably reproduce the bug for me.

[LiraNuna (liranuna)]

I can confirm this bug, I've discovered it myself too and was about to write a test case as well.
Dan did a wonderful thing isolating the problem with a great test case.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Rui Moreira (rui-f-moreira)]

This also happens to me in Lucyd, trying to listen to ringtones on the vodafone website:
http://www.vodafone.pt/main/Entretenimento/RingDings/Top_Ringdings.htm

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem seems to have been fixed.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Bug report did not expire due to assignment
Since comment #7 the mozilla plugin withdrawn from totem
so closing as invalid