1164122 - Game Nothing to Hide is broken on Linux

Status: NEW

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Georg Koppen]

Starting with ESR 31.7.0 the game Nothing to Hide (http://nothing-to-hide-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html) won't load anymore. This happens only on Linux.

I have not bisected that yet, thus choosing General as component.

Comment 1

[Georg Koppen]

I get

The buffer passed to decodeAudioData contains invalid content which cannot be decoded successfully. menu.html
EncodingError: The given encoding is not supported.

in the browser console. The regression range is

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=4fe763cbe196&tochange=ab0490972e1e

Looking at the commits contained there and the ones in ESR 31.7.0. I guess this is a fallout from bug 1080995.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ralph, could you take a look?

Comment 3

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

bug 1080995 was video. I think the problem is actually Bug 981869.

The console error is misleading. NSPR_LOG_MODULES=MediaDecoder:5 gives:

-1038629120[18b4f70]: GStreamerReader(18b5a70) starting metadata pipeline
-1064859904[7f7da4001130]: GStreamerFormatHelper rejecting disabled plugin flump3dec
67450624[f1ad60]: GStreamerReader(187a4c0) read metadata pipeline failed to preroll: error
67450624[f1ad60]: GStreamerReader(187a4c0) read metadata error: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.: gstdecodebin2.c(3576): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin4/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin24:
no suitable plugins found

Unfortunately I don't have an easy fix. We'd want to see fluendo harden their implementation before re-enabling it. Fortunately mp3 will be out of patent soon and we can ship our own decoder.