[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-09-24 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: firefox Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on T

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-20 Thread Erlenmayr
@Mossroy: I posted in May already that upstream avconv fixes the issue. Thanks for your work, it finally works now. :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: F

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-15 Thread Mossroy
I did not have the time to make the SRU : version 9.14 has just been deployed on Ubuntu Trusty, for security reasons : see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1341216 I checked the webm conversions : problem solved :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-15 Thread Mossroy
For the record, Trusty now generates a correct webm file (see attached video) ** Attachment added: "WebM file generated on Trusty with libav 9.14 from standard ubuntu packages" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1323822/+attachment/4153420/+files/P5270914-trusty-libav-9.14

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-11 Thread Mossroy
I also compiled version 9.13 patched with commit 9455a023be9f3915ccf5511a0b8fdb5b8897b2b6 : the output video works in Firefox. So it's now sure that this commit is the one that fixes the issue. If upgrading to 9.14 is not possible, backporting the patch would also work. -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: libav Status: Unknown => Fix Released ** Changed in: libav Importance: Unknown => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Daniel Letzeisen
If you feel the update is important enough, you can request SRU: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: libav (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: libav (Ubuntu) Status: Confirme

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Mossroy
@erlenmayr: it looks like you were right :-) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty Status

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Mossroy
** Also affects: libav via http://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Mossroy
@dtl131 : it looks like the commit 9455a023be9f3915ccf5511a0b8fdb5b8897b2b6 (in libav) is probably the one that fixes the issue -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Ti

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-10 Thread Mossroy
I did not find any libav 9.14 package for Ubuntu (any version), so I finally compiled it myself on Trusty, from mainstream source. After converting the source video with the same command-line, it outputs the attached webm file, which works correctly in Firefox. In order to check that the issue d

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-09 Thread Mossroy
I found 2 bug reports on upstream libav that seem to be related : https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597 https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341 At least the symptom seems to be the same. Both are fixed in Libav 9.14, by commit https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/9455a023be9f3915c

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-09 Thread Daniel Letzeisen
If it is fixed in libav, then it would be nice if someone would link to the commit that fixed it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox can not play so

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-09 Thread Mossroy
@erlenmayr: I don't know the WebM/Ogg/VP8 specifications enough to say if the file is "corrupt" or not. You might be right. And it's true that VLC is more permissive than many other players. But the file also does play correctly with Totem and Chromium. So which software is buggy did not seem th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-09 Thread Erlenmayr
@zefling-r: Which audo encoder does your avconv select? As far as I know there are several available in Ubuntu repos, including libfdk-aac, libvo-aac and faac. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bu

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-07-09 Thread Erlenmayr
Dudes this is obviously an avconv bug, not a Firefox bug. New avconv and ffmpeg work. You cannot fix Firefox to play corrupt video files, only because VLC is tolerant. avconv should create clean and valid files, such that we know that they work on all WebM players including mobile devices. -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-06-11 Thread Kevin Shenk
As this is fixed in libav upstream, it is possible to fix webm files on trusty using a libav update PPA: https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/libav10-trusty After enabling the PPA and updating libav, you can use this command to fix the webm files: avconv -i input.webm -codec copy output.web

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-06-07 Thread Mossroy
For what it's worth, if it might help somebody : As a temporary workaround before this issue is fixed, I succesfully use Docker (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/docker.io) to convert my videos in an isolated environment. I prefer not to install ffmpeg or upgrade libav through PPAs on my main s

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-06-02 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: firefox Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trust

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-06-01 Thread Mossroy
And if I remove the video instead of the audio (-vn option instead of -an), it does not play either and "jumps" to the end of the stram. I tried to tweak the libvorbis options on bitrate and quality values, but it does not seem to make any difference. I also tried to manually modify the header p

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-06-01 Thread Mossroy
After a few tests, I suspect the issue might come from the audio track. If I encode without the audio track : avconv -i P5270914.MOV -an P5270914-trusty-no-audio.webm It gives me the attached file, and it plays fine on Firefox When comparing both mkvinfo (the ones generated with libav, on Precis

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-31 Thread Daniel Letzeisen
Possibly relevant: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130313 Default duration is not used anymore, so newer avconv may not bother setting it to a valid value. Of course, if FIrefox still expects that value to be valid, it could cause problems.. ** Bug watch added: code.google.co

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-31 Thread Bug Watch Updater
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[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-31 Thread Mossroy
As the issue in the same with Firefox on W7, and this video works well on other implementations, I've created an issue upstream for Firefox, on bugzilla : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018579 In any case, it looks like this version of libav generates something Firefox dislikes. So

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-31 Thread Mossroy
** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1018579 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018579 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018579 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-31 Thread Mossroy
I tested the WebM file generated on Trusty with Firefox 27.0.1 and 29.0.1 on Windows 7 : same behavior. It can not be played, whereas the file generated on Precise can be played fine. Maybe I should report this issue on bugzilla.mozilla.org? -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-29 Thread Erlenmayr
Same here with a lot of videos. Upstream avconv seems to work as well as ffmpeg. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: libav (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, whic

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-29 Thread Mossroy
** Also affects: libav (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1323822 Title: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generat

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-28 Thread Mossroy
I tested to convert my video with ffmpeg instead of libav. For that, I installed ffmpeg (version 1.2.6-1~trusty1) from this PPA : ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg , on Trusty The result is attached, and works correctly with Firefox. So this gives at least a workaround on Trusty $ mkvinfo P5270914-tru

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
The package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is installed in version 0.10.23-7.2ubuntu1. But I thought the webm implementation of Firefox was built in Firefox itself (because it's a free codec), and that gstreamer was used only for h.264 videos (due to patent issues) ? -- You received this bug notifi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
Yes, you got it right : the file generated in Precise plays ok in Firefox (on Precise, Trusty, Windows, Android etc). You can try by yourself by clicking on the attachment. But the file generated in Trusty does not play on Firefox (at least on Trusty), even if it does in Totem, VLC, and Chromium

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Daniel Letzeisen
Just to be sure I read this right, you're saying that the file generated in Precise plays okay? If not, make sure you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad installed on your Trusty install: http://www.webmproject.org/tools/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Pack

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
I found this bug report on Firefox : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=868797 It might be related, but I don't think it's the same issue : manually sliding the video in the middle does not make it play. The workaround they propose is for ffmpeg, and does not seem to work on avconv : "

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
The mkvinfo outputs show a difference in the "Default Duration" field, which seems to be incorrect on Trusty. I tried to force it, by adding a "-r 29.970" parameter to avconv : the field's value is modified but still different from Precise, and the video does not play better -- You received th

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
Mkvinfo for the WebM file generated on Precise : $ mkvinfo P5270914-precise.webm + EBML head |+ EBML version: 1 |+ EBML read version: 1 |+ EBML maximum ID length: 4 |+ EBML maximum size length: 8 |+ Doc type: webm |+ Doc type version: 2 |+ Doc type read version: 2 + Segment, size 222861 |+ Seek he

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1323822] Re: Firefox can not play some WebM videos generated by avconv on Trusty

2014-05-27 Thread Mossroy
Mkvinfo for the WebM file generated on Trusty : $ mkvinfo P5270914-trusty.webm + EBML head |+ EBML version: 1 |+ EBML read version: 1 |+ EBML maximum ID length: 4 |+ EBML maximum size length: 8 |+ Doc type: webm |+ Doc type version: 2 |+ Doc type read version: 2 + Segment, size 217051 |+ Seek head