1999515 - (critical) YouTube videos are no longer playing after upgrading to Android 16

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox for Android :: Media, defect)

Description

[raj.azharuddin]

Attachment: YT playback issue.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 16; Mobile; rv:147.0) Gecko/147.0 Firefox/147.0

Steps to reproduce:

Recently my device upgraded to Android 16, post that YouTube videos are no longer playing, the circle keeps rotating ..same issue with stable or beta version with fresh installation..

I suspect this is after Android 16 update..videos are playing fine in chromium browsers

Attaching a video.

Comment 1

[raj.azharuddin]

Finally I found the cause..something to do with Av1 decoder..if I disable it in about:config , videos are playing fine...I suspect something has changed with a16 which mozilla didn't fix/implement

Comment 2

[Cathy Lu [:calu]]

Jim, could the media team take a look at this?