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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Sep 2016
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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MP4 Video stalls after decoding first frames using Media Source API

Reported by henryzha...@gmail.com, Aug 17 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Example URL:

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Use MediaSource API to display a live stream mp4 video on the Chrome browser
2. Call appendData method of source buffer to update the video

What is the expected behavior?
The video should play all the time

What went wrong?
The video looks like stalls after first 1~2 frames update. 
For most of time, after stalling for 15 ~ 20 seconds, it resuming playing and nothing goes wrong then.
It is not reproduced all the time but with 50% chance on the problem Chrome. 

It seem I am not the only one  having this issue. 
Even for normal video playing back,  many people complain this issue with Chrome 52 on  the forum https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/P53p1VRwuw8/QxkU6XN_BAAJ

Did this work before? Yes Chrome 51

Is it a problem with Flash or HTML5? HTML5

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.11.4
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0
 
It does not only happen on Mac but also Windows.
Also, it doesn't happen on all the Macs. Even with the same Mac OS version and Chrome version, one Mac can reproduce this issue but the other one can't.
Components: -Internals>Media Internals>Media>Source
Labels: Needs-Feedback
 henryzhang86@gmail.com, can you provide a repro link?
I can record a video to show what happened but it is a little difficult for me to provide a link since it is part of a big project. I need to create a small project to reproduce it.
Does the video sound good for you?

But I used to file some bugs and talked with Chrome Engineer before and I do believe they know what my project is doing.

Here is the previous bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=528518
BTW, that bug can be fixed. It is obvious fixed in the latest release even I don't see any update.
> many people complain this issue with Chrome 52 on  the forum https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/P53p1VRwuw8/QxkU6XN_BAAJ

That forum issue is unrelated to this crbug: the forum's issue is specific to Chrome for Android on NVidia Shield and the Chrome unified-media-pipeline.

This crbug is reportedly for Mac and Windows, not the NVidia Shield.

> Here is the previous bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=528518
> BTW, that bug can be fixed. It is obvious fixed in the latest release even I don't see any update.

I've updated that bug with a couple queries just now. Thanks for getting it back on our radar :)

> I need to create a small project to reproduce it.

That would be the best way for us to help you. For instance, with a minimal repro, we could locally reproduce the problem with instrumented Chromium builds to figure out in detail what the exact problem is.

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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 3 2016

Labels: -Needs-Feedback Needs-Review
Owner: yini...@chromium.org
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "yiningc@chromium.org" for another review and adding "Needs-Review" label for tracking.

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Cc: wolenetz@chromium.org
Owner: ----
henryzhang86@gmail.com, can you see our dev's response on #4? please provide a simple repro url so we can better investigate. 
Thanks for popping this up. Sorry for late response.
Currently, there is no repro url to reproduce it since I have to write a simple web server to streaming the video data. 
Again, it is not reproducible on all the machines. With the same Chrome version on the same Mac OS but different laptop, one can reproduce it but the other not.
I will talk to my manager and find some time to get it done.
Once it is done, I will post it here. 
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
henryzhang86@gmail.com, I will resolve this bug as won't fix now since there is no action we can take. When you have consistently repro and repro url, please feel free to reactivate it. thanks

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