Firefox 84.0.2. - Videos blocked on several sites

**Svyatko** · 12-Jan-2021, 08:09

Check FF parameters

Code:

media.av1.enabled
media.av1.use-dav1d

**tweetiepooh** · 12-Jan-2021, 11:10

For me both are true

**dcurtisfra** · 13-Jan-2021, 04:17

Originally Posted by tuxEvangelist

1. ARD Mediathek
https://www.ardmediathek.de/ard/vide...TI0NmUzYTIxNw/

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2. arte Mediathek
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/096295-000-A/psycho/

Here with me (location Germany – ISP is a German company – “iplocation.net” is reporting that, my IP location is in southern Germany) – Leap 15.2, both Videos are OK – the first one can't be played before 10 o'clock in the evening due to protection of minors rules …

Firefox version 78.6.0esr – standard Leap 15.2 version …
H264 and Widevine plugins are the standard Firefox ones …

But, I have the codecs from Packman Essentials installed as per this openSUSE SDB: <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Firefox_..._Video_Support>.

Code:

 > zypper search --installed-only --repo packman-essentials
Repository-Daten werden geladen...
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S  | Name               | Zusammenfassung                                              | Typ
---+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+------
i  | ffmpeg-3           | Library for working with various multimedia formats          | Paket
i+ | gimp-plugin-heif   | Plugin for GIMP to load HEIF files                           | Paket
i+ | libavcodec57       | FFmpeg codec library                                         | Paket
i+ | libavcodec58       | FFmpeg codec library                                         | Paket
i+ | libavdevice57      | FFmpeg device library                                        | Paket
i+ | libavdevice58      | FFmpeg device library                                        | Paket
i+ | libavfilter6       | FFmpeg audio and video filtering library                     | Paket
i  | libavfilter7       | FFmpeg audio and video filtering library                     | Paket
i+ | libavformat57      | FFmpeg's stream format library                               | Paket
i+ | libavformat58      | FFmpeg's stream format library                               | Paket
i+ | libavresample3     | FFmpeg alternate audio resampling library                    | Paket
i  | libavresample4     | FFmpeg alternate audio resampling library                    | Paket
i+ | libavutil55        | FFmpeg's utility library                                     | Paket
i  | libavutil56        | FFmpeg's utility library                                     | Paket
i  | libdca0            | A free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder                        | Paket
i  | libfaad2           | Shared library part of faad2                                 | Paket
i  | libopencore-amrnb0 | Shared library part of opencore-amr                          | Paket
i  | libopencore-amrwb0 | Shared library part of opencore-amr                          | Paket
i+ | libpostproc54      | FFmpeg post-processing library                               | Paket
i  | libpostproc55      | FFmpeg post-processing library                               | Paket
i  | librtmp1           | RTMP Stream Dumper Library                                   | Paket
i+ | libswresample2     | FFmpeg software resampling library                           | Paket
i  | libswresample3     | FFmpeg software resampling library                           | Paket
i+ | libswscale4        | FFmpeg image scaling and colorspace/pixel conversion library | Paket
i  | libswscale5        | FFmpeg image scaling and colorspace/pixel conversion library | Paket
i  | libvo-amrwbenc0    | VisualOn AMR-WB encoder library                              | Paket
i  | libx264-161        | A free h264/avc encoder - encoder binary                     | Paket
i  | libx265-192        | A free H265/HEVC encoder - encoder binary                    | Paket
i  | libxvidcore4       | Shared library libxvidcore                                   | Paket
i  | vlc-codecs         | Additional codecs for the VLC media player                   | Paket
i+ | vlc-vdpau          | Additional vdpau codecs for the VLC media player             | Paket
 >

**swannema** · 13-Jan-2021, 10:25

No problems here on my Tumbleweed, just updated to 84.0.2 a couple of minutes ago.

Question: Where is your Firefox coming from? 84.0.2 was made available for TW with the latest snapshot 20210111 that was pushed into the repos this afternoon.

**tuxEvangelist** · 13-Jan-2021, 11:55

FYI, I've opened an entry about this in Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686079

Not so much replies until now, I'm afraid...

You can also find some more details there (some examples are failing on Leap 15.2. and Win10 :-o ).

My FF 84.0.2 on Leap 15.2 came from

http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...USE_Leap_15.2/

My multimedia libs are also packman-based:

Code:

>zypper search --installed-only --repo packman 
Repository-Daten werden geladen... 
Installierte Pakete werden gelesen...

S  | Name                         | Zusammenfassung                      | Typ 
---+------------------------------+--------------------------------------+------ 
i  | MPlayer                      | Multimedia Player                    | Paket 
i+ | asunder                      | Graphical CD Ripper and Encoder      | Paket 
i  | autopano-sift-C              | SIFT Feature Detection implementat-> | Paket 
i  | dvgrab                       | Record Digital Video (DV) via an I-> | Paket 
i  | faac                         | Frontend for encoding MPEG2/4 AAC    | Paket 
i  | faad2                        | C library and frontend for decodin-> | Paket 
i+ | ffmpeg-3                     | Library for working with various m-> | Paket 
i+ | gpodder3                     | A free podcast aggregator for Linux  | Paket 
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-bad        | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-bad-lang   | Translations for package gstreamer-> | Paket 
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-libav      | A ffmpeg/libav plugin for GStreamer  | Paket 
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-ugly       | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | gstreamer-plugins-ugly-lang  | Translations for package gstreamer-> | Paket 
i+ | handbrake-gtk                | Multithreaded Video Transcoder       | Paket 
i+ | libavcodec57                 | FFmpeg codec library                 | Paket 
i+ | libavcodec58                 | FFmpeg codec library                 | Paket 
i+ | libavdevice57                | FFmpeg device library                | Paket 
i+ | libavfilter6                 | FFmpeg audio and video filtering l-> | Paket 
i  | libavfilter7                 | FFmpeg audio and video filtering l-> | Paket 
i+ | libavformat57                | FFmpeg's stream format library       | Paket 
i+ | libavformat58                | FFmpeg's stream format library       | Paket 
i+ | libavresample3               | FFmpeg alternate audio resampling -> | Paket 
i  | libavresample4               | FFmpeg alternate audio resampling -> | Paket 
i+ | libavutil55                  | FFmpeg's utility library             | Paket 
i+ | libavutil56                  | FFmpeg's utility library             | Paket 
i  | libdca0                      | A free DTS Coherent Acoustics deco-> | Paket 
i+ | libfaac0                     | Shared library part of faac          | Paket 
i+ | libfaad2                     | Shared library part of faad2         | Paket 
i  | libfdk-aac2                  | A standalone library of the Fraunh-> | Paket 
i  | libgpac10                    | Shared libraries for gpac            | Paket 
i+ | libgstadaptivedemux-1_0-0    | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstbadaudio-1_0-0         | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1_0-0 | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0     | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstisoff-1_0-0            | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstmpegts-1_0-0           | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstphotography-1_0-0      | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstsctp-1_0-0             | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgsturidownloader-1_0-0    | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstwayland-1_0-0          | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i+ | libgstwebrtc-1_0-0           | GStreamer Streaming-Media Framewor-> | Paket 
i  | liblsmash2                   | Libraries of L-SMASH                 | Paket 
i  | libmac2                      | Monkey's Audio Codec, a lossless a-> | Paket 
i  | libmozjs185-1_0              | JavaScript library                   | Paket 
i+ | libmp3splt0                  | Library to split MP3 and Ogg Files   | Paket 
i+ | libmp3splt0-mp3              | MP3 Support Plugin for libmp3splt    | Paket 
i  | libopencore-amrnb0           | Shared library part of opencore-amr  | Paket 
i  | libopencore-amrwb0           | Shared library part of opencore-amr  | Paket 
i+ | libpostproc54                | FFmpeg post-processing library       | Paket 
i+ | libpostproc55                | FFmpeg post-processing library       | Paket 
i+ | librtmp1                     | RTMP Stream Dumper Library           | Paket 
i+ | libswresample2               | FFmpeg software resampling library   | Paket 
i+ | libswresample3               | FFmpeg software resampling library   | Paket 
i+ | libswscale4                  | FFmpeg image scaling and colorspac-> | Paket 
i+ | libswscale5                  | FFmpeg image scaling and colorspac-> | Paket 
i+ | libvlc5                      | Shared code for the VLC media play-> | Paket 
i+ | libvlccore9                  | Shared code for the VLC media play-> | Paket 
i  | libvo-amrwbenc0              | VisualOn AMR-WB encoder library      | Paket 
i+ | libx264-161                  | A free h264/avc encoder - encoder -> | Paket 
i  | libx265-192                  | A free H265/HEVC encoder - encoder-> | Paket 
i+ | libxvidcore4                 | Shared library libxvidcore           | Paket 
i  | mac                          | Monkey's Audio Codec console player  | Paket 
i+ | mp3info                      | MP3 Technical Info Viewer and ID3 -> | Paket 
i+ | mp3splt                      | Utility for MP3/Ogg Splitting with-> | Paket 
i  | mppenc                       | Command-Line Musepack Encoder        | Paket 
i+ | mtpfs                        | FUSE filesystem that supports MTP -> | Paket 
i+ | normalize                    | An Audio File Volume Normalizer      | Paket 
i  | shorten                      | Fast compression for waveform files  | Paket 
i+ | transcode                    | A linux video stream processing ut-> | Paket 
i+ | vlc                          | Graphical media player               | Paket 
i+ | vlc-codec-gstreamer          | GStreamer integration for the VLC -> | Paket 
i+ | vlc-noX                      | VLC without X dependencies           | Paket 
i  | vlc-opencv                   | OpenCV plugins for VLC media player  | Paket 
i+ | vlc-qt                       | Qt interface for the VLC media pla-> | Paket 
i+ | vlc-vdpau                    | Additional vdpau codecs for the VL-> | Paket 
i+ | x264                         | Binaries for x264 streams conversi-> | Paket 
i+ | x265                         | A free h265/HEVC encoder - encoder-> | Paket 
i  | youtube-dl                   | A tool for downloading from Youtube  | Paket 
i+ | youtube-dl-bash-completion   | Bash completion for youtube-dl       | Paket

**Svyatko** · 18-Jan-2021, 13:20

Originally Posted by Svyatko

Check FF parameters

Code:

media.av1.enabled
media.av1.use-dav1d

Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

For me both are true

Probably websites tries to send videos in AV1 format.
Check it with disabling support for AV1:

Code:

media.av1.enabled = false

For playing AV1 you need AV1 codecs. Firefox hints on dav1d.
AV1 is an open format, no need for searching it in closed-source repos.

dav1d - An AV1 decoder

dav1d is a SIMD-enhanced decoder for AV1 video. It features

* Accelerated assembly using x86 AVX2.
* Partial acceleration using x86 SSSE3 and ARM NEON.

* Support for bitdepths 8, 10 and 12.
* Support for chroma subsamplings 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 and grayscale.
AV1 is a royalty-free video codec by the Alliance for Open Media. It has the potential to be up to 20% better than the HEVC codec.

**tweetiepooh** · 19-Jan-2021, 07:32

I was using version from Mozilla repository. Downgrading to versions in OpenSuse ones fixes issue. But now on lower version.

**tuxEvangelist** · 19-Jan-2021, 12:24

Still the same situation here:

* 84.0.2 from Mozilla repo causes the video playback issue
* ESR 78.6.0 from OpenSuse repo fixes the video playback issue completely

**tuxEvangelist** · 23-Jan-2021, 04:08

In the meantime I've continued to track down the issue: webm videos are playing fine, mp4 videos are causing problems.

And:

On the 84.0.2 from OpenSuseRepo (http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...USE_Leap_15.2/) the issue with mp4 is there.

On the 84.0.2 from Mozilla directly (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/...nux-x86_64/de/) mp4 is playing without problems.

What's the difference between the two versions?

**karlmistelberger** · 23-Jan-2021, 06:51

Originally Posted by tuxEvangelist

FYI, I've opened an entry about this in Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686079

Not so much replies until now, I'm afraid...

For your information: Visited your links in above bugzilla with firefox. All all them play smoothly with version 84.0.2. No blocking or error messages encountered.