On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Lars Aronsson lars@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@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.