[Bug Report] VLC plugin crashes Firefox while viewing .mov

[ZephyrXero]

I am using VLC player 0.8.4a with Firefox 1.5.0.2 and Windows XP Pro SP2. This is running on a 32bit Pentium4 machine (HT enabled) with an ATI Radeon X600XT and 1GB of RAM.

When I attempt to watch any .mov trailers from the Apple site [example], via the VLC-Mozilla plugin, VLC reports that an illegal operation has occurred and then crashes, and also crashes Firefox [bug also reported to Mozilla].

I've watched quicktime vids on other sites fine, but Apple's site always crashes. I assume that the video in the example is a Quicktime6 file as I chose against the "HD" options, but it could be in QT7 I suppose and may have something to do with it.

If there's anything else I can do to help, please let me know (zephyrxero[at]yahoo[dot]com).

[tonsofpcs]

That's not actually a quicktime video, but a jpeg image saying 'click here to begin view' probably one of apple's forwarding movs (you click through and it pushes a different mov to qt instead). I don't think these are fully supported yet, but I will put in a note to the devs.

[DJ]

That's not actually a quicktime video, but a jpeg image saying 'click here to begin view' probably one of apple's forwarding movs (you click through and it pushes a different mov to qt instead). I don't think these are fully supported yet, but I will put in a note to the devs.

I have been dling QT's .mov files through QT and they play fine in VLC assuming your machine is fast enough to handle the higher resolutions.

As far as playing the files on line, this is a known problem. Can any one say proprietary? You must register QT now in order to do the download.

[ZephyrXero]

Well regardless of what it is, it should not be crashing because of it

[suitable]

This may be a Firefox bug. I've had Ff freeze from (I believe) not being able to handle a QT popup to request install of additional components.

Firefox seems to associate some filetypes with QT by default (.mid, for example) and may have problems when they are reassigned to other applications. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265140.

It may be that Ff looks for a handler of a particular unassigned type, doesn't find one, tries to hand the install/update to QT, then locks up.

[gwenlrin]

[quote="ZephyrXero"]I am using VLC player 0.8.4a with Firefox 1.5.0.2 and Windows XP Pro SP2. This is running on a 32bit Pentium4 machine (HT enabled) with an ATI Radeon X600XT and 1GB of RAM.

When I attempt to watch any .mov trailers from the Apple site [example], via the VLC-Mozilla plugin, VLC reports that an illegal operation has occurred and then crashes, and also crashes Firefox [bug also reported to Mozilla].

I am experiencing the same problem at TV2.no loading Side 2 EXAMPLE at tv2.no