1340963 - Unable to play m.youtube.com video. Endless loading icon

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1350279

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Audio/Video, defect, P1)

Description

[Eric Tsai (no more review request accepted)]

From https://webcompat.com/issues/4763

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K8uYEZWw using Firefox for android 52.0b6, 53.0a2, 54.0a1 on Sony Z3C, android 5.1.1
2. Click play button on video

Expected result: play video

Actual result: endless loading icon

In web console, I see "unable to decode media resource blob:https://m.youtube.com/75a5f2a9-c255-41e2-b2a9-a6e77ae3482c"

Firefox for android 54.0a1 crash report: href="https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-513dfb1d-8d7b-40b8-b9bb-d562c2170220

Comment 1

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

Tried 52.0b5 and my local Fennec builds on my Z3C/Android 5.1.1 but had no luck reproducing it. The video played fine without error.

BTW, the crash report https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-513dfb1d-8d7b-40b8-b9bb-d562c2170220 shows assertion in MozPromise.

Comment 2

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

Logcat:

02-20 14:12:00.391 11938 12560 W ACodec  : Allocating component 'OMX.qcom.video.decoder.avc' failed, try next one.
02-20 14:12:00.391 11938 12560 E ACodec  : Unable to instantiate codec 'OMX.qcom.video.decoder.avc'.
02-20 14:12:00.391 11938 12560 E ACodec  : signalError(omxError 0x80001003, internalError -2147483648)
02-20 14:12:00.391 11938 12559 E MediaCodec: Codec reported err 0xfffffffe, actionCode 0, while in state 1
02-20 14:12:00.391 11938 11959 W MediaCodec-JNI: try to release MediaCodec from JMediaCodec::~JMediaCodec()...
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W MediaCodec-JNI: done releasing MediaCodec from JMediaCodec::~JMediaCodec().
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 E GeckoRemoteCodec: FAIL: cannot create codec -- OMX.qcom.video.decoder.avc
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to initialize OMX.qcom.video.decoder.avc, error 0xfffffffe
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.native_setup(Native Method)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.<init>(MediaCodec.java:497)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at android.media.MediaCodec.createByCodecName(MediaCodec.java:481)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.JellyBeanAsyncCodec.<init>(JellyBeanAsyncCodec.java:264)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.AsyncCodecFactory.create(AsyncCodecFactory.java:12)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.Codec.configure(Codec.java:334)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.media.ICodec$Stub.onTransact(ICodec.java:75)
02-20 14:12:00.392 11938 11959 W System.err: 	at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:446)

Comment 3

[Eric Tsai (no more review request accepted)]

Hi John, if you want to get my device to reproduce this issue, it's welcome to grab me.

Comment 4

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

Got the device from Eric and will investigate the problem.

Comment 5

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

The device failed to create codec 'OMX.qcom.video.decoder.avc'. Log shows 'OMX-VDEC-1080P: Omx_vdec::Comp Init Returning failure, errno 12' and that's ENOMEM. It seems the video decoder driver is in unusable state so I tried rebooting and video now plays fine.

Comment 6

[Blake Wu [:bwu][:blakewu]]

Probably, there is no more instances of video decoder available. If it is that case, usually video decoder is fully occupied by other APPs or tabs and it should be easily reproduced by creating two tabs which both play videos.

Comment 7

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

Tried launched 3 instances of Fennec and play the video simultaneously, then launch Youtube app and play the video at the same time. All play fine. :(

Comment 8

[John Lin [:jhlin][:jolin]]

Fixed in bug 1350279 by falling back to SW decoder when HW fails to init.