GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 443502
Visualisation always enabled for audio files
Last modified: 2007-10-08 11:11:49 UTC
The visualisation plug-ins are always enabled when playing audio files on the browser plug-in using the totem-gstreamer back-end. The visualisation uses between 30 and 40% of my AMD64 laptop's CPU, which is not worth the cost for something I personally find useless and very distracting. This didn't happen with earlier versions of the totem-xine back-end. Visualisation is disabled in the totem player and the settings are honored there. Please provide a way to disable them in the Mozilla plug-in or honor the desktop player's settings.
Well, this is normal because Windows Media player shows audio visualisation when not playing any movies and just showing music. With which page do you see this behaviour?
(In reply to comment #1) > With which page do you see this behaviour? No pages, simply audio files loaded within the browser. File, Open, select an MP3 file, voila. This can also be reproduced by following a link to an audio file (let's stick to MP3 which is what I tested with) from a website. > Well, this is normal because Windows Media player shows audio visualisation > when not playing any movies and just showing music. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that application and apt-get doesn't know about it either, so I cannot check it out right now. However, why does that application determine what normal is and why does totem have to mimic its behavior anyway? Moreover, why does the browser have to behave like that, as well? Why the waste of resources for no reason? First thing I always do with any music player that supports visualisations, is disable them. They waste computer power and, even if they didn't, they are too distracting for me.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > With which page do you see this behaviour? > > No pages, simply audio files loaded within the browser. File, Open, select an > MP3 file, voila. This can also be reproduced by following a link to an audio > file (let's stick to MP3 which is what I tested with) from a website. That's a known bug, and is due to Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko sucking. We should only handle embedded data, not "fullscreen" ones. > > Well, this is normal because Windows Media player shows audio visualisation > > when not playing any movies and just showing music. > > I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that application and apt-get doesn't know > about it either, so I cannot check it out right now. However, why does that > application determine what normal is and why does totem have to mimic its > behavior anyway? Moreover, why does the browser have to behave like that, as > well? Why the waste of resources for no reason? Windows Media Player is the default media player on Windows installation, and is one of the players we mimic. > First thing I always do with any music player that supports visualisations, is > disable them. They waste computer power and, even if they didn't, they are too > distracting for me. Fair enough, but the plugin will only follow what the web page tells it, although in your case, it shouldn't even load the plugin in the page. Closing as a duplicate of bug 314370 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314370 ***
*** Bug 484417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***