Bug#406315: totem-mozilla + vlc freeze my powerbook

[Loïc Minier]

severity 406315 important
stop

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007, SALVETTI Djoume wrote:
> This morning I wanted to see how the new Apple IPhone looks like, so I
> pointed my iceweasel to :
> http://files.macbidouille.com/news/200701/iPhone_H264.mov
> this give me the error :
> You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need
> to install the necessary plugins. 
> But I have totem-mozilla installed and about:plugins tells me that
> video/quicktime are handled by : QuickTime Plug-in 7.0 (compatible;
> Totem)....

 Totem may not support all codecs served in quicktime encapsulation.
 The gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg package in experimental might help you read
 it.

 If I understand correctly, totem-mozilla did not "break your whole
 system", hence I'm downgrading priority.

> Anyway, let's try videolan :
> wget http://files.macbidouille.com/news/200701/iPhone_H264.mov
> vlc iPhone_H264.mov
> => vlc's window open and the screen freezed!

 Does vlc freeze your system as well when opening other videos?  You can
 grab some from archive.org.

> I sshed into my powerbook from another computer to see that Xorg was
> eating 100% of the CPU. I killed vlc and iceweasel but nothing changed.
> I sudo killall -9 Xorg and my computer is still freezed! Even my ssh
> connection got freezed and I was not able to connect with ssh anymore
> :-(

 This all looks like a X video driver bug; what is your X video driver?

> vlc iPhone_H264.mov alone works perfectly. But if I try to open the
> video with iceweasel before, the computer freeze like the first time.

 That's strange; at all rates, the X server should not freeze.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>