1871796 - AV1 Hardware Acceleration M3 MacOS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Graham Campbell]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Steps to reproduce:

Missing support for AV1 Decode Hardware Acceleration for the M3 family of Macs.

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Attachment: Bug 1871796. macOS hardware AV1 decoding.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/180d6e7d3c1b
macOS hardware AV1 decoding. r=media-playback-reviewers,padenot

Comment 4

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

Backed out for causing bustage on AppleDecoderModule.cpp

Backout link

Push with failures

Failure log

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/0c5b1757ce8c
macOS hardware AV1 decoding. r=media-playback-reviewers,padenot

Comment 6

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0c5b1757ce8c

Comment 7

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Not seeing this show up yet in telemetry fwiw - https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/98769/source?p_platform=Mac

Comment 8

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

If you switch from telemetry.main_1pct to to telemetry.main it shows up: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/queries/98772/source?p_platform=Mac

Comment 9

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

:jrmuizel do you want to include a release note? (Process info)
We could include it in the nightly release notes.

Comment 10

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Release Note Request (optional, but appreciated)
[Why is this notable]: Reduces power usage when decoding AV1 videos.
[Affects Firefox for Android]: No
[Suggested wording]: Enable AV1 hardware decode acceleration on macOS for M3 Macs.
[Links (documentation, blog post, etc)]:

Comment 11

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

Thanks, added to the Fx126 nightly release notes, please allow 30 minutes for the site to update.
Keeping the relnote-firefox flag as ? to keep it on the radar for inclusion in the final Fx126 release notes