FS#74368 - [firefox] hardware-accelerated video playback fails (va-api), even with sandbox disabled
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Opened by Rhys Perry (rhysperry111) - Wednesday, 06 April 2022, 14:59 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 21:06 GMT
Opened by Rhys Perry (rhysperry111) - Wednesday, 06 April 2022, 14:59 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 21:06 GMT
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Description:
(I have marked this as high severity, as video playback not working seems like a pretty huge problem for a modern browser) A regression was introduced in ff98, in which video playback failed if va-api was being used and the RDD sandbox was enabled. It could be worked around by disabling the sandbox. With the newer firefox, ff99, even using the workaround does not work. Although there are multiple relevant tickets upstream, I believe this to be the most active one https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751363#c41 . It shows the same findings. In that thread, people are saying that nightly has a fix; Would it be possible to backport this fix so it can be included in the repo version of firefox? Additional info: * Firefox: 98 (less severe), 99 (severe) * https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751363#c41 Steps to reproduce: Install firefox, and setup va-api acceleration as per the wiki. Attempt to watch a video. Fails. |
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Closed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 21:06 GMT
Reason for closing: Upstream
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 21:06 GMT
Reason for closing: Upstream
Comment by
Ewout van Mansom (ewout) - Monday,
18 April 2022, 09:41 GMT
Comment by
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) -
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 21:06 GMT
Works for me with ''media.rdd-process.enabled'' set to ''false'',
disabling the sandbox entirely. MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX
environment variable seems to have no effect.
Hardware accelerated decode is not yet a supported feature.