1758431 - va-api decoding doesn't work in firefox 98

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1751363

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

Description

[Mel]

Attachment: firefox vaapi log

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

VA-API errors out when trying to play a video:
libva info: VA-API version 1.13.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_13
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids: Permission denied

Firefox is running in wayland mode on gnome.

Actual results:

video is decoded using the CPU

Expected results:

video decoding is done using the GPU

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Mel]

va-api worked fine in 97.0.2 and stopped working in 98

Comment 3

[Akarshan Biswas]

Facing the exact same problem here.

libva info: VA-API version 1.12.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/intel-vaapi-driver/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva error: dlopen of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/GL/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so failed: libLLVM-12.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
[RDD 290: MediaPDecoder #1]: D/PlatformDecoderModule FFMPEG:   vaInitialize failed.
[RDD 290: MediaPDecoder #1]: D/PlatformDecoderModule FFMPEG:   Failed to create VA-API device context

Comment 4

[Darkspirit]

You need to start Firefox with MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 environment variable until bug 1751363 is fixed.