Re: [Gnash-dev] youtube bugs for release

[John Gilmore]

> body. YouTube fullscreen now works, which is excellent, and possibly
> some other buttons are working better. Clicking on the thumbnails at the
> end of the video still doesn't have any effect.
> 
> Because it's a one-line YouTube fix, I'll put it in the release too.

What's behind that fix is perhaps bigger trouble.

I built the trunk on x86 Ubuntu Hardy and tried it on a few things.  I
found a bad hang that makes the user lose control of their screen.  Go
to this URL:

  
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2009/02/20/News/University.Logo.Policy.Stirs.An.Ire.With.Marijuana.Advocacy.Group.wvideo-3640025.shtml

Scroll down to the video and press Play.  The button in midscreen
disappears, hooray!  Now press the "Full Screen" icon in the lower
right corner.  It continues playing, taking up the whole screen.  But
for me the video is choppy (either large or small); their network feed
isn't running in realtime.  So I pressed Pause in the hope of letting
some readahead happen.

Unfortunately at this point I lost control of the whole screen.  I had
to go somewhere else on the network, ssh into my machine, and kill off the
gnash-gtk process.  Then I had a window system again.

It appears that when using this embedded Youtube player, merely leaving it
running in a web page and trying to move the bubble backwards (dragging
to replay some of the video) causes the same effect.  But when your mouse
isn't in the Gnash sub-window, you don't lose control.  Gnash no longer
responds (even to right-click), but the browser and the rest of the system
remain responsive.

But a few minutes after I'd clicked a right-click in the Gnash
sub-window, a gnash right-click menu popped up on top of my terminal
window (where I was typing this message), and seized the input focus.
It took another several minutes of experimenting at the screen to
regain control; I think I did it by re-entering the gnash window and
doing one or several right-clicks.

In short, this youtube embedded player gets itself into ugly territory
once Benjamin's super fix is installed.  If we can't fix the rest of
this, we might want to back out his fix and let embedded Youtube keep
failing earlier.

        John