WebM file corrupt on YouTube video

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This Sonny James music video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXzw0ElKAuw
will not play in my Firefox Web browser in Ubuntu 12.04.

The video freezes at the start with a stalled loading wheel.
I run HTML5 without Flash enabled, and also have videodownload helper installed.

Firefox natively supports webm, and I can play 3gp or webm in the Ubuntu Movie 
Player.  A Firefox add-on is supposed to let me play 3gp video, so I have 
learned.

I posted a comment on the video describing the issue, and thought maybe the 
video owner could repost.  Otherwise I looked in Google and found another webm 
bug  report about a YouTube copyright school video with similar issue.

That brought me here, and I opened this new thread.

I was playing a Sonny James playlist that exhibited a few dead videos located 
here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu3RKVoFGUo&feature=bf_prev&list=AL94UKMTqg-9CaYR
lbqvwHnYX_ublE7GCl

It was behaving as above, and I just advanced to the next playlist entry.

#3 is unavailable (no webm), #4 has a bad webm.
#8 is unavailable  #9 unavailable.
#10 has a bad webm,

I went back in and looked at the available file formats  and when the video 
locked up with the "loading" wheel stalled, the webm file could not be opened 
locally after I downloaded it.

Is there anything you can do in other people's channels to fix faulty webm or 
must the account holder re-up the video to solve the webm issue?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by l.m.k...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2012 at 4:43

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Unable to reproduce. WebM formats are available for the cited videos and, once 
acquired (ahem), play successfully in up-to-date VLC, MPlayer, Gstreamer-based 
players, FF, Chrome, and Opera on Ubuntu 12.04

Note that the playlist mentioned inserts an advertisement before #3 and appears 
to overlay advertisements elsewhere. Can you disable any ad-blocking extensions 
or proxies, and see if that clears it up for you? Thanks.

(Also note that YouTube watch pages contain a "Report a bug" footer link, which 
is the most direct way to report issues with specific videos. 
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/request.py)

Original comment by louquil...@google.com on 26 Jul 2012 at 7:29

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It has been 2 months since this report without any confirmation. 

thanks 

Original comment by albe...@google.com on 14 Sep 2012 at 8:35

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