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Quanttek

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Registered: 2015-01-10

Posts: 22

Problems with video acceleration in Firefox

I am currently unable to watch HTML5 videos in Firefox because of some issues with VA-API and also had - before I uninstalled it - frequent crashes with Flash, when using hardware acceleration.

Firefox instantly crashes when I open any hardware accelerated HTML5 (therefore h.264) video.

Here's what Firefox prints out when started from the console:

(process:20154): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed
libva info: VA-API version 0.37.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

** (firefox:20154): CRITICAL **: gst_vaapi_mini_object_unref: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_mini_object_lock: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_memory_unmap: assertion 'mem != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_memory_get_sizes: assertion 'mem != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_mini_object_lock: assertion 'object != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_memory_unmap: assertion 'mem != NULL' failed

(firefox:20154): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_memory_get_sizes: assertion 'mem != NULL' failed
fish: Job 1, 'firefox' durch Signal SIGSEGV (Adressbereichsfehler) beendet

Related packages installed:

libva
gst-vaapi
gstreamer0.10-vaapi
libvdpau-va-gl
mplayer-vaapi
xvba-video/libva-xvba-driver
libvdpau
vdpauinfo

It doesn't matter if I use xvba-video or libva-xvba-driver

I currently have some general issues with Catalyst like really low FPS in games too

wast3

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Registered: 2012-01-26

Posts: 27

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Re: Problems with video acceleration in Firefox

I have this too. Green background when gst-vaapi is installed. Totem is also affected. VAAPI itself works fine in mplayer and vlc. First generation Core i7 here with Intel HD Video. Has been like this for months now...

Quanttek

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Registered: 2015-01-10

Posts: 22

Re: Problems with video acceleration in Firefox

bump

neo1973

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Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 3

Re: Problems with video acceleration in Firefox

I have this too. Green background when gst-vaapi is installed. Totem is also affected. VAAPI itself works fine in mplayer and vlc. First generation Core i7 here with Intel HD Video. Has been like this for months now...

Same problem here... And in this thread some experience the same behavior: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1480991

Edit: Package name is now gstreamer-vaapi

Last edited by neo1973 (2015-02-12 09:25:25)