Bug 44846 – Question mark QuickTime icon when navigating to this MP3 file

• Component: Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Loading the URL in Safari results in a the audio controls showing briefly, then being replaced by the QuickTime logo with a question mark. Opening the URL in QuickTime player works as expected. The file is served as audio/x-mpeg.

[Eric Carlson]

This doesn't play because the movie created by QTKit has a 'tmet' track.  MediaPlayerPrivate::disableUnsupportedTracks doesn't recognize this track type so it disables it and turns control over to the QuickTime plug-in because the policy is that any movie a with unknown tracks in a media document should fall back to a plug-in. 

In this case there is no reason to disable 'tmet' tracks as they have just meta data, so we should add this media type to the allowed types table.

[Eric Carlson]

This url does work in an <audio> or <video> element, although QTKit identifies it as a live stream even though it is just an MP3 file. Maybe this is because the server doesn't return a Content-Length header:

eric% curl -I "http://www.davidlowemusic.com/cgi-bin/adminfiles.cgi?fa=play&fileid=631&gname=productfiles"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:15:40 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Connection: close
Content-Type: audio/x-mpeg

[Eric Carlson]

Created attachment 66277 [details]
Proposed patch

[Eric Carlson]

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/66632