VP-57: Some ogg videos don't seem to be playing correctly in Firefox

Metadata

Source
VP-57
Type
Bug
Priority
Major
Status
Closed
Resolution
Fixed
Assignee
Colin Clark
Reporter
Colin Clark
Created
2009-11-08T14:03:44.000-0500
Updated
2013-01-28T09:25:22.006-0500
Versions
N/A
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
N/A

Description

I can't quite track this one down, but some Ogg videos aren't playing correctly in Firefox 3.5. I've tested the video with VLC, and it does indeed work.

And example of this issue can be seen here:

http://fluidproject.org/reports/mellon-final-report-2009/components/reorderer.html

Environments

Firefox 3.5.5

Comments

  • Colin Clark commented 2009-11-08T14:10:02.000-0500

    I think it may have something to do with how we encoded our Ogg Theora files. If I transcode it to Ogg and Vorbis using VLC, I can play the video (though with all the standard VLC-related encoding quirks).

  • Colin Clark commented 2009-11-08T14:29:14.000-0500

    Re-encoding the video with Firefogg seems to resolve the issue. Something wrong with the video converter we used, causing videos to break in newer versions of Firefox 3.5?

  • Justin Obara commented 2009-11-11T14:10:14.000-0500

    Uploaded the files that Armin re-encoded at r8645

  • Colin Clark commented 2009-11-30T19:47:34.000-0500

    We've confirmed that this issue has to do with how a video is encoded, not the video player itself. Thanks to Justin and Armin's hard work, the final report videos have been re-encoded and are looking good.