Bug 2020914 - regression: media codec acceleration stopped working
Summary: regression: media codec acceleration stopped working
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 35
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-11-07 10:14 UTC by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Modified: 2023-09-18 04:27 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2022-12-13 15:48:10 UTC
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about:support (38.89 KB, text/plain)
2021-11-07 10:18 UTC, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Description Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2021-11-07 10:14:55 UTC
Description of problem:

Using Firefox 94 on X11, runnong on an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 used to work fine on Fedora 34, being able to play videos on youtube and other sites (Netflix, Amazon prime, HBO, ...).

After upgrading to Fedora 35, video stopped work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  firefox-94.0-1.fc35.x86_64
  mesa-dri-drivers-21.2.5-1.fc35.x86_64
  libva-2.13.0-1.fc35.x86_64
  libva-intel-driver-2.4.1-6.fc35.x86_64
  xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-51.20200205.fc35.x86_64
  intel-media-driver-21.3.4-1.fc35.x86_64

How reproducible:

  Always.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open youtube and try to play a video. The video hangs.

Additional info:

'about: support' reports that WEBRENDER_COMPOSITOR is blocklisted by gfxInfo.

Comment 1 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2021-11-07 10:18:06 UTC
Created attachment 1840520 [details]
about:support

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2021-11-10 08:12:49 UTC
That's interesting. What is the change which broke it? Update from Firefox 93 to 94 or switch from Fedora 34 to 35? Can you do some investigation here? Also please try Mozilla binaries:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Firefox_problems?rd=Bug_info_Firefox#Testing_Mozilla_binaries
I see the HW acceleration is on so this should not be a problem here.
Thanks.

Comment 3 Robert Mader 2021-11-24 14:04:41 UTC
The about:supports looks like VA-API is not enabled, so no issue with that. One important change from Fedora 34 to 35 for this setup is that the new crocus driver is now used, so this may be a Mesa issue. In that case, videos should work when running firefox with `MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 firefox` or `MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i915 firefox` (not quite sure which).

Comment 4 Ben Cotton 2022-11-29 17:15:42 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 35 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 35 on 2022-12-13.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a
'version' of '35'.

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prior to this bug being closed.

Comment 5 Ben Cotton 2022-12-13 15:48:10 UTC
Fedora Linux 35 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2022-12-13.

Fedora Linux 35 is no longer maintained, which means that it
will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we
are closing this bug.

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Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-18 04:27:43 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days


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