1450137 - Decoder may not have the capability to handle the requested video format with YUV444 chroma subsampling

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Prisma CT]

Attachment: Use this file to reproduce the issue.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180319141609

Steps to reproduce:

Record a video with the Kazam screenrecorder (Linux Mint only, I believe)
Play it in FIrefox


Actual results:

Said the video was corrupt and could not be played.


Expected results:

Played the video without error.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

We do not support YUV444 H264, as the Microsoft Windows and Apple Video Toolbox decoder do not support it.

For platform consistency, we've disabled support on linux too.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

Kazam supports webm/VP8, those are free (in GNU Free meaning) codecs and fully supported in Firefox.