786238 - Dailymotion.com videos are black rendered

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Plugins, defect)

Description

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Attachment: logs

Nightly 18.0a1 2012-08-28
Device: Samsung Galaxy R (Android 2.3.4)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to dailymotion.com
2. Play any video. 

Expected results:
The video starts playing and is correctly displayed.

Actual results:
Audio starts playing but the video is never rendered. The video player with the exceptions of the video controls is rendered black.

Note:
Issue is not reproducible on other devices tested: Samsung Note (Android 4.0.4), HTC Desire Z (Android 2.3.3), Acer Iconia Tab A500 (Android 3.2) - on the Acer the video is upside-down but this will be covered in a separate bug

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Adrian, does the video show up if you force the page to redraw by rotating the device or by zooming in and out? Can you tell whether the video controls are actually Flash or just HTML/JS?

This is a Flash video, so we either can't do anything or maybe we need to kick Flash to invalidate its video.

Comment 2

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

The video is never redrawn regardless of any user action like zoom or rotation. I can also reproduce the issue on LG Optimus 2X running Android 2.2 which has a Tegra 2 GPU so this may affect all Tegra 2 devices. Long-tapping on the video does not bring up HTML5 controls so the video may be Flash but I can't say for sure as I am seeing in the logs references to the h264 codec: 08-28 16:02:34.190: I/OMXCodec(6726): [OMX.Nvidia.h264.decode] allocating 10 buffers of size 1566720 on input port

Comment 3

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

This could just be badness with Flash. On Tegra 2 with Android < 3.2, Flash uses a different drawing method that seems to have some issues. Probably nothing we can do about this except disable Flash again, unfortunately.

Comment 4

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Videos played on Dailymotion.com (desktop version) are black rendered, but the sound plays correctly on the latest Nightly build.

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Firefox 18.0a1 (2012-09-17)
Device: Galaxy Note
OS: Android 4.0.4

Comment 5

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

This occurs on Galaxy Nexus too (Android 4.1.1)

Videos played on metacafe.com are white rendered. Is it the same issue as for dailymotion?

Comment 6

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

I don't have any problems on metacafe or dailymotion with current trunk on Galaxy Nexus. I'm charging my LG Optimus 2X right now to try it there.

Comment 7

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) from comment #6)
> I don't have any problems on metacafe or dailymotion with current trunk on
> Galaxy Nexus. I'm charging my LG Optimus 2X right now to try it there.

How did that testing go?

Comment 8

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] from comment #7)
> (In reply to James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) from comment #6)
> > I don't have any problems on metacafe or dailymotion with current trunk on
> > Galaxy Nexus. I'm charging my LG Optimus 2X right now to try it there.
> 
> How did that testing go?

Oh, typical Tegra-on-Gingerbread suckage. Worked fine at times, didn't others. No change from before.

Comment 9

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Are any QA folks able to reproduce this currently?

Comment 10

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

I am still able to reproduce the issue every time on the Samsung Galaxy R running Android 2.3.4 on Nightly 19.0a1 2012-10-18.

Comment 11

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This works for me, it could be that Galaxy R is currently stage-fright block-listed on Gingerbread; you can verify by stagefight.force-enabled set to true in about:config