Closed
Bug 1624103
Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
Firefox fails to play vp9 videos when VAAPI decoding is enabled on hardware that lacks vp9 decoding capabilities
Categories
(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P5)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1628690
| Tracking | Status | |
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| firefox-esr68 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox74 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox75 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox76 | --- | disabled |
People
(Reporter: eh3t2adm7, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
(Keywords: nightly-community)
Attachments
(1 file)
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(deleted),
text/plain
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Details |
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0
Steps to reproduce:
Start Firefox under wayland with widget.wayland-dmabuf-vaapi.enabled=true and media.ffpvx.enabled=false
Go to youtube and try any video encoded in vp9
Actual results:
Youtube gives an error message.
Expected results:
Video should be played (using software decoding)
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Updated•5 years ago
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Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
Youtube tries to fall back onto h264 and sometimes succeeds
Consistent testing eg. here:
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Updated•5 years ago
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Blocks: egl-linux-vaapi
status-firefox74:
--- → unaffected
status-firefox75:
--- → unaffected
status-firefox76:
--- → disabled
status-firefox-esr68:
--- → unaffected
Keywords: nightly-community
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64
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Updated•5 years ago
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Attachment #9134876 -
Attachment mime type: text/x-log → text/plain
Priority: -- → P5
Since you are using Haswell, have you tried to use partial GPU decoding with intel-hybrid-codec-driver? It's not a solution for this issue, but I wonder if it works.
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Updated•5 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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