Firefox/Gecko Mediaplayer don't play large files on local filesystem

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Firefox on the local filesystem (e.g. file:///home/user/Videos)
2. Try to play a < 2092614 KB video file
3. Gecko Mediaplayer won't play nothing

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

If the movie (mpeg ps video file) seems to be smaller than around 2092614 KB it 
plays fine...

I see strange behavior in both dbus and firefox log attached to this post.

the tests shows tries with 2 video files:
1) WORK is 2092614 KB (mpeg2 ps)
2) NOWORK is 2132898 KB (mpeg2ps identic)

I have hundreds of video files for different sizes, all of them play if they 
are smaller than the working file and the don't play if larger than the NOWORK 
file.

Tested on DIFFERENT machines on UBUNTU 10.04 and UBUNTU 11.04 (beta3) and 
compiles (gecko-mplayer native 0.9.9.2 and 1.0.3beta compiled) SAME behavior.

I am available to do any tests and produce every accurate log you want but 
please investigate... this issue is very important for my work...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fabrizio...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 10:19

Attachments:

• NOWORK_dbus-monitor_log.txt
• NOWORK_firefox_log.txt
• WORK_dbus-monitor_log.txt
• WORK_firefox_log.txt

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Obviously when trying in UBUNTU 11.04 FIREFOX was 4.0

i think the limit size is similar to 2 GB (2048 Mb) 

Original comment by fabrizio...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 10:33

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Can gnome-mplayer even play the file by itself?

The problem we may have here is that I run a 64bit machine and so duplicating 
this problem might be difficult. The other thing I see in the logs is that the 
file uri does not look like it is even being sent to gecko-mediaplayer. 

Also, using gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.9.2 with gnome-mplayer 1.0.3beta is really 
not supported. You should be using at least gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.0 

I'll take a look at it, but I need to find a 2GB file to work with.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 12:53

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Hello, my test were on a 32bit machine.

gnome-mplayer can play both files well

I used gecko-mediaplayer-1.0.3beta with gnome-mplayer 1.0.3beta when i tried 
the compiled way...

you can produce a 2 gb file by taking a few mb mpeg2 file and concatenate 
itself hundred of times :)

cheers, thank you!

Original comment by fabrizio...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 2:19

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Consider that totem-plugin on firefox, same machine, same large file, plays 
correctly.

Original comment by fabrizio...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 2:20

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Totem handles URLs very differently than gecko-mediaplayer, so not a similar 
comparison.

Anyway, SVN r435 should fix the problem. I was able to reproduce it after 
creating a 5hr long anime file and then testing it from firefox 4. It seems to 
handle files larger than 2GB differently than those under 2GB. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2011 at 7:01

• Changed state: Fixed