#5900 NORM Never A: Long video clips on SD card cause Browse and Watch & Listen to stall

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#5900: Long video clips on SD card cause Browse and Watch & Listen to stall
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 Reporter:  bouncey                    |       Owner:  kreneskyp     
     Type:  defect                     |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal                     |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  watch-and-listen-activity  |     Version:  Build 653     
 Keywords:                             |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                             |   Blockedby:                
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 The laptop is a G1G1 XO with build 653.

 Short theora video clips (about 8 minutes or less) can be loaded and
 played successfully in both Browse and Helix/W&L.  But longer movies (my
 first test was 30 min, the second was 11 min) cause Browse to hang while
 launching.  Watch & Listen launches but does not actually load or play the
 longer movies.

 The movie files are 320x240 at 30fps for both long and short.  I tried bit
 rates ranging from 750 kbps down to about 200 with no change in the
 results.  All of the movie files are stored on a 2GB SD card (a slowish
 one from Lexar) in the card slot and are launched from the Journal.

 It seems to stream correctly from a nearby web server.  It also plays
 correctly in Browse when the video has been moved to internal flash.  But
 oddly enough, Journal doesn't list W&L as an option in that case.
 (However, it does list Write.  Resuming the video in Write causes a block
 of error text to appear in the word processor.)

 I can provide a sample movie file if needed, about 27-28 MB.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5900>
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