[Bug 516326] [NEW] gecko-mediaplayer ignores cache size setting

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gecko-mediaplayer

gecko-mediaplayer caches 20% of the movie it is about to play,
regardless of the plugin cache setting in its preferences. What it
should do is cache the amount specified in the preferences.

Example:
I use gecko mediaplayer to view YouTube movies using the HQTube Greasemonkey script (available from userscripts.org). I right-click on the movie I am playing and choose "preferences". Then I choose the "plugin" tab. Here I can set the cache size to one of a range of values, the lowest of them being 32kB. Yet no matter what value I set it to, that movie and subsequent movies will always wait until 20% of the movie has been loaded before playback starts. Since my internet connection is only a little faster than that required to play YouTube videos without glitching, a 10 minute movie will require most of 2 minutes caching before it starts playing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb  3 00:14:02 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: gecko-mediaplayer
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64

** Affects: gecko-mediaplayer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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