1622142 - Some YouTube videos flickering in Nightly after March 12th build

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics: Layers, defect)

Description

[wvyar.comms]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:76.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/76.0

Steps to reproduce:

Using Firefox Nightly, play certain videos in YouTube (one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPCjC543llU ). This bug does not occur for all videos (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIbuwNDpDo plays normally). This bug occurs even on a fresh profile in safe mode.

Actual results:

The video to rapidly repeats a small number of frames for the duration of the video. The specific frames flickering seems to depend on where in the video playback is started (e.g. starting later in the video causes frames from later in the video to repeat). This issue seems to have started with the first March 12th build and occurs on Windows 7, 10, and Ubuntu.

Expected results:

The video should play normally.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: some video playback glitch

Regression window;
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=b9bf352a94d2d41df26dae4a672daadb5185fdce&tochange=71df0e854e4f728d2eade9260fb2ecf44e5ab3d5

Comment 4

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

It seems that I saw the problem only when WebRender is disabled and compositor is used for rendering.

Alice0775 White, can you reproduce the problem with WebRender?

Comment 5

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

Attachment: Bug 1622142 - Disable recycle allocator usage for av1 video for now

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

[REPRODUCED, flickering and looping video image]
Basic(i.e. HWA off) and Direct3D11(Advanced Layers) on Windows10
OpenGL(layers.acceleration.force-enabled= true) on Ubuntu18.04 of VMWare guest.

[NOT REPRODUCED]
WebRender enabled on Windows10.

[REPRODUCED Maybe not related to this bug, sometimes flickering, but not looping video image]
Basic(i.e. HWA off) on Ubuntu18.04 of VMWare guest.

[NOT TESTED]

• on MAC OS
  WebRender on Ubuntu18.04 of VMWare guest.

Comment 7

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

Thank you for the checking!

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/30b275cb80cd
Disable recycle allocator usage for av1 video for now r=nical

Comment 10

[Arthur Iakab [arthur_iakab]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/30b275cb80cd

Comment 11

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

The recycle allocator usage is going to be re-enabled by Bug 1622709 by addressing the problem.

Comment 12

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Reproduced the issue using Firefox 76.0a1 (20200312215313) on Windows 10x64 and STR from comment 0 and comment 6.
The issue is verified fixed using the video from comment 0 with Firefox 76.0b4 (20200412214314) on Windows 10x64, macOS 10.12 and Ubuntu 18.04.