Keith Olbermann's video crashes SeaMonkey in 2.13

[Flash]

I can't get more than maybe a fourth of the way through this video before SeaMonkey freezes and I have to right-click and kill ("close" won't work) every instance of SeaMonkey in the system tray because there is nothing but a gray screen when I click on it.

[John Doe]

Same clip is right here in mov and wmv:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/3 ... president/

more here:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/category/ ... olbermann/

[Flash]

Thanks. It plays fine in Gxine as a WMV file. This supports the point I was trying to make, which is that the problem seems to be in SeaMonkey, or perhaps the media player in SeaMonkey which plays whatever type of file you get when you click the link in my original post.

[John Doe]

I noticed puppy still has flash version 7. I think they are up to 9 now.

Although for the record, I didn't have any trouble with the flash stream under puppy 2.13 or windows (I've watched that clip 4 times in the past two days now).

Was your flash problem by any chance a network buffering issue?

(I'm asking "flash" about his "flash problem", how humorous)

And one last point regarding flash versions. I noticed on version 7 under puppy the audio and video were out of sync. WIth windows and version 9 the video and audio were in sync. I'm assuming it was a flash version issue, not OS and only mentioned that for the record.

[Flash]

Heh, sorry for any confusion caused by my name.

I don't know what media player (if that's the right term) SeaMonkey uses for the file format used by the link in my original post. Since the video plays fine in Gxine, I assume the network is not the problem. Also, all open instances of SeaMonkey freeze and go gray when this happens.

[John Doe]

I don't know what media player (if that's the right term) SeaMonkey uses for the file format used by the link in my original post.

It's "flash". That was the humor

It uses the flv (flash video) container:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLV

I grapped that file with wget:
http://truthout.vo.llnwd.net/o16/Countd ... rorism.flv

and checked it out. my stuff said it uses MPEG Audio 1 layer 3 (mp3) for audio and MPEG2 for video (flv for container, obviously).

I'm wondering if this version of ffmpeg would fix it for you. I had forgotten the ffmpeg on my system might be different.

Give a shout out if that works. I think the syncing problem I was seeing would be fixed up with a newer version of flash (9.xx instead of 7.xx). As well as an additional unsupported container (*see wiki).

Since the video plays fine in Gxine, I assume the network is not the problem.

Those files you can download for gxine are different than the flv that is streaming in your origninal link. After container, video encoding and audio encoding, size is the major difference. The mov and wmv are about 11 and 12 megs. The flv is 32 megs. Although mpeg is an inefficient form of video encoding, it's nice because it plays on most systems.