1314804 - D3D9DXVAManager still initializes in the UI process when the GPU process is enabled

Status: NEW

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P3)

Description

[Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)]

When we enable the GPU process we try to disable all GPU content in the UI process so that we can't have GPU related crashes there.

D3D9DXVAManager creates its own IDirect3DDevice9 without checking the GPU process status, so we could still end up accessing the GPU this way.

It's probably very unlikely to actually have videos playing in the UI process, but this would still be good to fix.

Comment 1

[Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (needinfo for best results)]

I understand that "video decoding in GPU process" is behind a separate preference, right?  So, this is just for the part that is compositor specific, and should thus move to whatever process owns the compositor?

Comment 2

[Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)]

(In reply to Milan Sreckovic [:milan] from comment #1)
> I understand that "video decoding in GPU process" is behind a separate
> preference, right?  

It is, yes.

> So, this is just for the part that is compositor
> specific, and should thus move to whatever process owns the compositor?

It's more that we want the UI process to be blocked from using the GPU in any way when we have the GPU process, and the d3d9 decoder paths subverts our attempts to do this.

Comment 3

[Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (needinfo for best results)]

When we deal with this, we should make sure cover the scenarios where we restart the GPU process, as well as when we decide not to, and drop to software.

Comment 4

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Mass wontfix for bugs affecting firefox 52.