mltshp.com - Looping video plays, but stalls after a while while another tab is active

[bradchoate]

URL: https://mltshp.com/r/1FHQ2.webm

Browser / Version: Firefox 65.0
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.14
Tested Another Browser: Yes

Problem type: Something else
Description: Looping video plays, but stalls after a while while another tab is active
Steps to Reproduce:
This is an issue with WEBM looped video playback. Steps to reproduce:

1. Load https://mltshp.com/r/1FHQ2.webm
2. Enable looped playback and play the video.
3. Create a new tab in the same window and switch to it.
4. After a minute or two, switch back to the tab with the video.

Expected result: video is shown and is still playing (or resumes playing) in a loop.

Actual result: Video frame is blank. Playback controls are present and you can start it again.

Browser Configuration

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Reported by @bradchoate

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[softvision-sergiulogigan]

Cool find, @bradchoate

I can also reproduce this on Windows 10.

Tested with:
Browser / Version: Firefox Nightly 67.0a1 (2019-02-21)
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Moving to Needsdiagnosis.

[wisniewskit]

I can also reproduce this on Linux, but it doesn't seem like a webcompat issue proper as opposed to a playback bug in Firefox. As such I've filed bz1532495 with the steps to reproduce the issue, and will close this as a dupe of that one.

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