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swfdec0.8 package

swfdec crashes on certain YouTube video's, please update to 0.8.2

Bug #296343 reported by Alexander van Loon
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: libswfdec-0.8-0

I noticed that swfdec on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit crashes on certain YouTube video's (not all). I filed a bug upstream – http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18463 – and I was told that this was most likely fixed already in swfdec 0.8.2, which was released recently on the 23th of October. I hope Ubuntu can update the swfdec package to 0.8.2, because otherwise it's impossible to watch certain video's. The changelog – http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/swfdec/2008-October/002081.html – doesn't seem to be spectacular, so an upgrade wouldn't be too risky for Ubuntu's policies?

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In , Riccardo-datahost (riccardo-datahost) wrote :

This should be already fixed in 0.8.2 and it should happens only with h264/aac videos. I know that most distro are not up to date with packages but maybe filing a "new upstream release" bug in their bts may improve the situation. In your specific case you can even try to rebuild the debian package.

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Alexander van Loon (avanloon) wrote :

Binary package hint: libswfdec-0.8-0

I noticed that swfdec on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit crashes on certain YouTube video's (not all). I filed a bug upstream, and I was told that this was most likely fixed already in swfdec 0.8.2, which was released recently on the 23th of October. I hope Ubuntu can update the swfdec package to 0.8.2, because otherwise it's impossible to watch certain video's.

Alexander van Loon (avanloon)
description: updated
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In , Riccardo-datahost (riccardo-datahost) wrote :

*** Bug 18356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In , Alexander van Loon (avanloon) wrote :

For those who are interesed, I posted a bugreport – https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swfdec0.8/+bug/296343 – on Ubuntu's bug tracker.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and make Ubuntu better,
Can you please provide an url with a video that actually crash firefox in intrepid so that I can investigate and test?

Changed in swfdec0.8:
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander van Loon (avanloon) wrote :

Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqYEN_s9R4o

I already mentioned this URL in the upstream bugreport to which I gave a link in the description.

Changed in swfdec0.8:
status: Incomplete → New
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In , Did-rocks (did-rocks) wrote :

The new version 0.8.2 just gave me black screen on the video previously mentionned. So, FF did not freeze as previously, but no real gain yet.

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In , Riccardo-datahost (riccardo-datahost) wrote :

(In reply to comment #4)
> The new version 0.8.2 just gave me black screen on the video previously
> mentionned. So, FF did not freeze as previously, but no real gain yet.

h264 video playback is available in git master and 0.9.2. In 0.8 tree only the freeze has been fixed since swfdec policy is to apply only fixes in the stable tree. Please add yourself to cc in bugzilla #18187 if you want to be updated on h264/aac support. Thanks.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

The new version I uploaded in jaunty just gave me black screen on this video. So, FF did not freeze, but no real gain yet…

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Changed in swfdec:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in swfdec0.8:
status: New → Confirmed
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Riccardo Magliocchetti (riccardo) wrote :

Didier, 0.8.4 should give you full playback for youtube h264/aac videos. You may want to reference upstream bug 18187. Thanks.

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Riccardo, I synced the last package to have no difference between us and debian unstable and I do not want to add an extra one at this time.

Furthermore, at this stage of development, there is no more automatic syncing from debian. Can you please ping me to fill a sync request when debian unstable will update from 0.8.2-1 to 0.8.4-1.
If you think this feature is really needed though and that debian is not updating it, please shout :)

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ibotty (ibotty) wrote :

http://packages.debian.org/sid/libswfdec-0.8-0 has version 0.8.4-1

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Ok, let me fill a sync request from debian version

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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

FYI: bug #321950.
I will close this one when the sync will be done for jaunty (don't set them as DUP as they are not really duplicated).

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Alexander van Loon (avanloon) wrote :

According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libswfdec-0.8-0 version 0.8.4-1 is in Jaunty now. So I'm closing this bug.

Changed in swfdec0.8 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in swfdec:
importance: Unknown → High
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Changed in swfdec:
importance: High → Unknown
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Changed in swfdec:
importance: Unknown → High
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