1958611 - playing a video freeze firefox with "OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb:"

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

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trying to play this video:
https://www.leroymerlin.es/productos/mortero-refractario-axton-25-kg-gris-81928351.html

Firefox freeze and I can see the following in the terminal:

libva info: VA-API version 1.22.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_22
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
[Child 2973587, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: 7f23d1ce5b80 OpenCubeb() failed to init cubeb: file /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/dom/media/AudioStream.cpp:284

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

actually, i have the same issue with youtube. I guess I have an AV stack upgrade that failed.
Maybe it should be marked invalid or we could handle the error better?!