Re: ffmpeg-8.0 unable to play certain video formats

On Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:56:59 +0100,
David Goudou <david.goudou@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03 Nov 25 - 15:50, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > Le Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 03:35:05PM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:46:35 +0100,
> > > David Goudou <david.goudou@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > here's the error i encountered:
> > > >
> > > > [Child 95605, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1]
> > > > WARNING: Decoder=d9fd0a9c000 Decode error:
> > > > NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_METADATA_ERR (0x806e0006):
> > > > file /usr/obj/ports/firefox-144.0.2/firefox-144.0.2/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168
> > > >
> > > > example test video: https://justdavid.org/x3kja9d680zf1.mp4
> > > >
> > > > youtube does play fine for me too
> > > >
> > >
> > > I can play this video via ffplay and chromium. In firefox it says:
> > >
> > > > No video with supported format and MIME type found.
> > >
> > > ... it looks like a firefox bug, so added landry@ as CC
> >
> > if the same video works w/ ffmpeg 6 then that's a regression from the
> > ffmpeg update used by firefox at runtime :)
> >
> > (no, i wont be able to look into the details now)
> >
>
> can confirm working with ffmpeg 6
>

Probably related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1993140


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wbr, Kirill