Public bug reported: Binary package hint: totem
With most online videos, totem will do progressive download, filling up its buffer and then starting playback while it continues to download the rest of the video. For some reason it won't do this with FLV files. It doesn't start playing until the entire video is downloaded. I first noticed this on YouTube using a greasemonkey script that replaces the flash player with a native plugin. fmt=18 videos, which are mp4, begin playing almost immediately, while fmt=34 or fmt=35, which are flv, do not. I then confirmed it with some other videos. Here's one posted by someone reporting this problem on ubuntuforums: http://hd.spaziogames.eu/hd20/2009/9/psp/4018.flv I tried it in banshee and it works fine, so this seems to be specific to totem and not gstreamer. ** Affects: totem (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- totem won't do progressive download for flv videos https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589012 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
