On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
So how do I tell what's wrong? I have a laptop
that is less than half a year old, a clean
Ubuntu Linux 9.10 install and the included
Firefox 3.5.8 browser. This should work, but
these two videos never play more than two seconds
and after a while my CPU fan spins up, firefox
runs 100%, and all I can do is a "kill -9",
which kills any other work I had going in other
browser windows and tabs.
You aren't running in a virtual machine are you? Linux+VM is known as
a source of playback problems for firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526080
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.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Uh.. buffer overflow errors, complex file format
loaders in
programming languages like C.... Or false assumptions about memory
management with poor detection error and fatal consecuences. Maybe
even bad program intercomunication. ...
The internet was built on text based protocols to avoid these problems
or help debug then.
Ironic that you say that... the variable length null terminated string
is probably the worst thing to ever happen to computer security.
Text does imply a degree of transparency, but it's not security
cure-all.
In any case, video and audio are in the same boat as Jpeg/png, +/-
some differences in software maturity. There aren't any known or
expected malware vectors for them.