Open Bug Base (Jira) + Flash Player = Happy Customer

Posted by in Flash on Feb 24th, 2009 | 1 comment

A couple of months ago I ran into a pretty nasty bug with Flash Player 10. Turns out when using everybody’s favorite browser, IE, and playing back an MPEG4-AVC (h.264) file it was extremely easy to crash IE completely when seeking within the first couple of keyframes. I gnashed my teeth, dropped multiple f-bombs and threw 2 birds in the direction of San Francisco. Then, I hopped online, posted a bug report in the open Flash Player bug base and implemented a hack workaround.

Fast forward 2 months, a new version of Flash Player 10 gets pushed and I’m cruising the Flash Player release notes, because, you know, that’s what an ultra cool nerd like me does on a Tuesday night. What do I find? That’s right, Tinic and friends fixed that nasty little bug that had me cursing their mothers and sticking voodoo needles in a Chumby. Great Scott, Batman–this open bugbase stuff actually works. Congrats FP team, if you lived close I’d show you some serious man-love and buy you a midwest beer (you know the 22oz kind).

Flash Player 10 MPEG4-AVC seek bug fixed



One Response to “ “Open Bug Base (Jira) + Flash Player = Happy Customer”

  1. Scotty Allen says:
    February 25, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    We’ve been gnashing our teeth about this one as well. Our current best workaround is to remove the player from the stage before seeking (which seems to work fine).

    It’s really awesome to see they’ve actually fixed it:) Thanks for pointing out the fix!

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