[Commons-l] Broken videos

[Stephen Bain]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Firefox buffering (and some other applications, no doubt) doesn't
> interact well with short high bit-rate videos.
>
> As this are both almost 5mbit/sec, this is probably the cause of the
> problems here.

The problem is only replicated on Linux though, the videos work fine
for Firefox on Windows (going only by the responses in this thread -
more testing?).

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Otherwise, it's pretty likely you're hitting
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496147 (or another on of
> several closely related linux audio specific bugs which are various
> degrees of fixed in the latest firefox development).   I believe that
> disabling pulseaudio will work around this collection of issues on
> ubuntu.

If the problem lies with bugs in packages or drivers in the user's
system, how can we do anything about it?

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com