On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> 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