Problem with "Automatic" videos on apple.com/trailers

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There's an issue with apple's trailers using "Automatic" format:
video randomly restarts from beginning.

Take, for example, this one:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/mgm/hottubtimemachine/

From the sidebar on left, click "Watch Now" and then select "Automatic".

With "Large - 480p" format you don't have this problem: video plays ok from
start to end.

regards,
David

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dco...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2010 at 9:56

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I think that is one of those multiformat apple video files. I'm not sure at this
point if the first two are corrupted or if the video is running of the end of 
the
media at this point.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2010 at 1:16

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It's the latter. When selecting 'Automatic', instead of playing the appropriate 
size (from 320, 480 or 640 pixels wide), gecko-mediaplayer plays all three from 
end to end. When the cache is full for a particular resolution, it immediately 
starts caching and playing the next.

I've been working around this quirk for months now, and it is rather annoying 
since the totem plugin works as expected on Apple Trailers (albeit nowhere as 
fast and you can't save).

Original comment by metamorf...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2010 at 6:31

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A feature that gecko-mediaplayer doesn't have is the ability to select one 
video from the list of several videos in a quicktime file that has pointers to 
videos of different sizes based on connection speed. mplayerplug-in had this 
feature to a limited extent and the main problem with it was picking the 
correct media file to play, I believe it always picked the lowest resolution. 

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 28 Aug 2010 at 7:48

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Is this on the TODO list or is it something that the MPlayer back-end 
intrinsically lacks?

Original comment by metamorf...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2010 at 8:12

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I hadn't worried about it because Apple seemed to quit using the technique for 
awhile. But now it appears they are using it again. So I'll have to dig out the 
code.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2010 at 1:39