Gecko-mediaplayer, problem with streaming / file size

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Gecko-mediaplayer in firefox does start media playback normally but will stop 
after about one minute of playback.

I thin the problem is the file caching through the plugin in a temporary local 
file. mplayer checks the file size at start of playback and stops when playback 
reaches the position of the initial file size.

To me it is completely unclear, why this local download method has been 
choosen. mplayer is able to directly contact the media server and start the 
playback, if it receives just the remote media url.

An other solution could be to create the download file with the complete size 
right from the beginning and overwrite the contents as media contents is beeing 
received...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tru...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2012 at 5:31

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Can you try the code in SVN, the streaming code detection and playlist handling 
has been reworked. It seems to work better for me, but I would prefer if others 
tested it.

As for the mplayer stop bug, that should be fixed in newer versions of mplayer. 
Local downloading is done so that the media can be saved for offline use.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2012 at 9:06

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I have tested with latest mplayer in Debian unstable and the SVN code in my 
amd64. Mplayer does still stop as described above. And it is pretty unstable 
when moving to an other stream position (no picture or complete playback stop - 
even playback restart does not work in this case). Switch to fullscreen is also 
not working correct (only part of the picture is visible after the switch). 
Sometime I get the error: "MPlayer interrupted by signal 8 in module: filter 
video" (I had the same with the precompiled Debian packages - but this last one 
I don't have on my i386 machine)

I still don't agree to the local downloading part - doesn't make much sense as 
nearly everyone has a permanent (flatrate) Internet connection nowadays, and if 
someone wants to download a file he is much better of with special download 
plugins (Download-Helper?). And it is a long time to wait till 20% of a file is 
downloaded before playback starts. Could a preference switch be added to avoid 
local downloading?

Original comment by tru...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2012 at 7:09

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Do you have a sample site I can test with?

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2012 at 1:33

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I use the FlashVideoReplacer firefox plugin with youtube or vimeo. But this is 
not any longe updated by the original maintainer. If you want I can send you 
the modified code I use per email. I can not provide a link to a special video 
for the error message - and I have not found a repeatable pattern to reproduce 
it. But after a couple of videos (usually <10) I get this error.

Original comment by tru...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2012 at 7:28

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Please send me the plugin. Generally I do not support this type of hack, but I 
will examine the code and see if there is anything obvious.

Original comment by kdeko...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2012 at 4:28