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Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Subj. After a few seconds when I entering any channel on Twitch.tv, Otter hangs.

Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #1 –
Is that just hang or also a crash?
Does it happen only there or also on some other pages with native HTML5 video?
Is that default package or xp variant (try the other one too)?
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #2 –
Hungs, no response, I have to end task. Don't know a lot of sites with HTML5 video. YouTube works. Please suggest me sites to test.

I use default package with new QtWebKit, on Windows 7. Both Otter and Windows are 64-bit. I'll try Otter for XP package also.

Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #3 –
@Freeman, yeah, try -xp package, it might be specific to Media Foundation multimedia backend which is now used in standard packages.
Nadszedł już czas, najwyższy czas, nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie.
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #4 –
Tried XP package, it doesn't display any content from Twitch. I see just dark magenta page with 'Twitch' title on it. Same result when I enter a channel address manually.

Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #5 –
@Freeman, that is bad news, I'm not sure if it is fixable then, perhaps something could be tweaked in MF backend of WebKit, but I'm not sure.
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #6 –
@Freeman, is that hang accompanied by high CPU usage or it just gets stuck?
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #8 –
@Freeman, I've talked with QtWebkit devs, most likely it is some sort of deadlock, but it will be hard to research without producing some backtrace.
I can later try to do so, I still have template for Windows 7 VM around, unless you can provide one yourself.
Nadszedł już czas, najwyższy czas, nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie.
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #12 –
@Freeman, well, we still need some backtrace to find out what is going on, at least reproducing it using test-qtwebkit rules out some possibilities.
I guess that it would best if you would talk directly with devs on #qtwebkit at Freenode.
Nadszedł już czas, najwyższy czas, nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie.
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #13 –
@Freeman, good news, fix was backported and should be available in next release of QtWebKit, or maybe earlier, if we will manage to get some fresh binaries for Windows.
Nadszedł już czas, najwyższy czas, nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie.
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Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #15 –
@Emdek, with build 172 Twitch started to work. Maybe earlier, but I'm watching Twitch just now.
 

Re: Why Otter does hang on Twitch?

Reply #16 –
@Freeman, my guess is that they changed something on their side, we are still waiting for new TP that contains fix for that freeze.
Nadszedł już czas, najwyższy czas, nienawiść zniszczyć w sobie.
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