No one else has flash video streaming issues with Solaris 10 08/07 x64
with SRSS 4.0? Should I go through the official channels and submit a
bug? Honestly, I tend to prefer the mailing list option. Things usually
get addressed in a more timely manner here. :)
And to refresh everyones memory, flash video streaming exhibits the same
symptoms from the console.
One thing that has recently occurred to me is that flash streaming video
worked just fine prior to the installation of srss, but at the same time
I also had to configure authentication via ldap. So maybe it wasn't srss
but the ldap configuration. Specifically I'm thinking is latency to our
ldap server maybe playing a hand in this, since our ldap server is in
our other office about 300 miles away. Really though that's purely
speculation, cause when it comes to ldap I really don't know what I'm
talking about. :) I have a how to that tells me the questions that the
ldap configuration script is going to ask me and I have the settings Sun
told us to input when we first got the sunrays about 3 years ago. For
awhile it all worked fine but now within the last year to 6 months it's
really easy to recreate the issue.
Aaron
Aaron Wilson wrote:
Yes I have. That's where I was testing it before installing SRSS, so I
know it was working. After installing srss I noticed it wasn't working
from a sunray connected to my second server, so I went back to the
console and it wasn't working there either anymore.
One thing I also noticed I had Flash 9,0,115,0 installed and that was
working fine prior to srss. After installing srrs 9,0,115,0 would
freeze the browser on simple flash animations, not just streaming
video. I rolled back to flash 9,0,47,0 and now normal flash animations
work again, but not videos.
Streaming video also freezes post srss with the flash 7 version that
comes with Solaris.
I've tried it out in the firefox that came with solaris and the
firefox compiled by the Sun Bejing team that's available on the
mozilla ftp site.
Maybe it's not srss, but it definitely started acting up after the
installation of it.
I just noticed that once firefox unlocks itself on this sunray server,
subsequent flash videos seem to play normally. However most of users
aren't patient enough to wait. Also some sites have embedded videos
that autoplay when the page loads and those are definitely the most
troublesome versus sites that you have to hit play to stream the video.
Once I close firefox and reopen it flash will lock up firefox again.
I just tested things out on my primary server that I did apply patches
too and firefox will lock up on every flash video you visit.
Aaron
Bob Doolittle wrote:
Have you tried viewing these Flash animations from the console?
-Bob
Aaron Wilson wrote:
Ok at first I thought I applied some patches that messed up Flash.
But now I think it somehow related to the Sunray software.
I have two sunray servers. On both of them if I go to youtube or any
other sites that use flash to stream videos the browser freezes. It
seems like it is downloading the video. Once the stream gets to the
end of the video the browser unfreezes. However it's really annoying
and my users are complain constantly, even though they're not
supposed to visit those sites. Large videos can freeze for minutes
at a time. Our company has some of it's own streaming videos though
and viewing those is painful at best.
The reason I think this is Sunray related is because while I was
building the second server I didn't apply any patches after
installing solaris and flash worked fine up until after I installed
SRSS 4.0 on Solaris 10 x86 08/07.
Normal Flash animations still work just fine. It's just the
streaming ones that cause problems.
Anyone else have this problem?
I know flash video viewing performance isn't great on a sunray, but
I would take a choppy video over no video or waiting ten minutes
before I can use the browser again. My only other option I can think
of at this time is installing Flashblock for all my Mozilla and
Firefox users.
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