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Gecko Media Player must wait until 20% of video is loaded before starting playback #157

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open a browser that Gecko Media Player supports
2. Open a website with embedded video
3. Wait until it loads

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The video cannot be started (not even by clicking the Play button) until the 
plugin has browsed at least 20% of the video. Seemingly the cache setting is 
not being honored (unless the 20% rule is by design instead of by ommision). 
The video ought to be started when the cache has been filled, instead of until 
a percentage of the video has been loaded. This is especially troublesome with 
large videos.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
GMP 1.0.4 on Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1, OS is Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Please provide any additional information below.
Totem's plugin is also causing a similar problem, although I cannot determine 
whether it needs to load a certain percentage of the video, or the cache is 
fixed instead in the case of Totem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by csol...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2011 at 11:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It sounds like you are playing a streaming source. In that case mplayer 
enforces a 20% cache load. For non-streaming sources, the amount downloaded 
before the playing is started is the cache size. Setting the cache size to low 
can cause playback problems so the default values are recommended.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2011 at 11:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Is there a way to override the MPlayer's enforcement? Or can the enforcement be 
overridden on Totem if not?

Original comment by csol...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2011 at 12:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Unknown about totem...

Mplayer has the 20% of the cache size hard coded as far as I know. If you are 
not streaming, the gnome-mplayer plugin cache size is used. You can set that 
size in gnome-mplayer under edit->preferences [plugin]

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2011 at 2:42