video stream download continued when streaming paused or closed

[ms270169]

I am working with owncloud 9.0.3.2.

When I select a mp4 link, video streaming is started in web browser (linux/firefox 47.0). Everything working fine. If I select the pause button, streaming seems to be stopped, but data download continues in background. If I select the upper right corner X icon, video window disappears, but data download in background is not stopped. Selecting some different folders also does not stop the background download.

If I select the upper left corner Files selection (menu bar), or logging out or closing the web browser the download is stopped.

This may be a problem for overall server bandwidth and for people who have a volume limited internet access.

[Instagit]

Hi ms270169,
I'll try to look into this, but unfortunately it's difficult to test right now, because video caching has been broken in Firefox for more than a year (can't be disabled).

[ms270169]

Hi Instagit,
in the meantime I test this issue also on android smartphone and google chrome browser. There the downloading stops when pausing or cancelling the video. So it seems to be problem related with Firefox client.

[ms270169]

Maybe a Firefox Problem?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285856

edit: fixed the link :)

[Instagit]

Could be, especially when it works in other browsers. It's hard to tell what's a Firefox bug and what's not when they don't bother to fix the bugs on their end.

For now, I'd give this a low priority until Firefox allows developers to create a reliable testing environment for websites that include videos.