On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: >> You mean like you marked them as "speedy-delete" because your browser >> doesn't like them? > > I'm still convinced there is something strange > with these two videos. I can watch all other > videos on Commons. The only ones I ever had a > problem with, were taken down, recoded and > worked fine after that. > > So how do I tell what's wrong? I have a laptop > that is less than half a year old, a clean > Ubuntu Linux 9.10 install and the included > Firefox 3.5.8 browser. This should work, but > these two videos never play more than two seconds > and after a while my CPU fan spins up, firefox > runs 100%, and all I can do is a "kill -9", > which kills any other work I had going in other > browser windows and tabs. > > I downloaded the video. I can watch it fine in > VLC. But when I try to play it with file:// > in my browser, it stops after two seconds and > nothing more happens. This time I can use the > BACK button; I don't have to kill the browser. > > VLC does give the error message: > [0x99c9fb8] main input error: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called > I have no idea what that means. Maybe it doesn't > mean anything at all. > > Having to kill my browser is sooo 2002. If the > solution is to switch to Chrome or Windows 7, > then we better postpone any video projects > another 6 to 12 months. I thought the time > was right, and was so excited about this new > initiative, but perhaps I was just wrong.
Checking on Ubuntu 9.10, I can confirm that the video (tested only one) has some issues in Firefox. It stops after 5 sec, but doesn't kill the browser; it just doesn't proceed. It stops in MediaPlayer after ca. 8 sec when played from the net, but runs nicely when played from local disk. Same for VLC. So, it's the network/streaming component, not the file. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
