Re: Installing ffmeg-free degrades firefox video support

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On 6/5/22 15:08, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Sat, Jun 4 2022 at 01:05:58 AM +0300, Otto Urpelainen <oturpe@xxxxxx> wrote:
It seems clear that there is a bug somewhere, but I cannot decide,
where, hence this post to devel. Should Fedora's Firefox actually have
media.ffmpeg.enabled set to false by default, because Fedora's variant
of ffmpeg has this problem? Should upstream Firefox be smarted about
which decoder library it attempts to use? Or should ffmpeg-free package
do something to avoid this from happening. Any opinions are welcome!

Only the developers will be able to tell you for sure, but I would start with a Firefox bug report. That's the place where code changes are most likely to be required, and the Firefox developers can always punt the bug to ffmpeg if they think it is doing something wrong.

Our ffmpeg-free is supposed to support H264 via OpenH264.

From my understanding ffmpeg-free should work with Firefox regardless of actual codec name.

Firefox uses avcodec_find_decoder() to query supported formats and it uses AVCodecID. So as far as openh264 ffmpeg module claims support of AV_CODEC_ID_H264 it's supported (unless the decoder crashes later and it's disabled or so).

You can get exact info by running Firefox with

MOZ_LOG="PlatformDecoderModule:5"

env variable.

Firefox without ffmpeg-free package uses GMP interface to use OpenH264 and you can find its status at about:plugins page.

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Martin Stransky
Software Engineer / Red Hat, Inc
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