gstreamer-vaapi + nvidia driver causes firefox to crash on animated gifs / video tags

[Joe Barnett]

when loading pages with animated gifs wtih gstreamer-vaapi packages installed, firefox crashes with the following stacktrace:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer-vaapi/+bug/1395070/+attachment/4273341/+files/stacktrace.txt

The Mozilla Crash Reporter IDs are available from:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/191714886/SubmittedCrashIDs.txt

An example URL that demonstrates this problem is = ?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gstreamer1.0-vaapi (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Nov 21 08:41:48 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-24 (269 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140218)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer-vaapi
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-08-17 (95 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

Hi Christopher,

Would love to open up an apport-created bug for this, but I don't get anything in /var/crash when firefox crashes, or get any apport dialogs (i do get them for other apps). I do get the mozilla crashreporter to show up, and i've used that to "submit a bugreport" many times, but don't know where it gets sent to.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Joe Barnett, fair enough. It would appear Firefox is a one-off exception to this. Hence, could you please provide the stack trace ID URLs as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Submitting_Crashes_to_Mozilla ?

As well, could you please provide the specific URL with animated gifs that demonstrate this issue?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Cut from Bug Description.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Joe Barnett, you don't need to file a new report, or do any further apport-collect'ing at this point, unless someone specifically asks. What is still needed though is an example URL that demonstrates this problem.

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

trying to seek in http://media02.nfl.info/NFL/Media/2014/Video14/Officiating_Media_Video_11-26-14.mp4 causes the crash 100% for me with gstreamer-vaapi installed. scrolling through animated gifs on deadspin.com articles is not quite 100%, but happens often.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Joe Barnett, when I went to the advised link via Firefox after installing the package gstreamer1.0-vaapi (no additional entries were seen in Firefox > Add-ons > plugins) it noted:
Video can't be played because the file is corrupt.

However, if I open it in Chrome, the video does work.

Hence, could you please advise which package precisely to install in order to test to this issue?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

apt-cache policy gstreamer1.0-vaapi
gstreamer1.0-vaapi:
  Installed: 0.5.7-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.5.7-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.7-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Joe Barnett (thejoe)]

you can also try http://media02.nfl.info/NFL/Media/2014/Video15/Officiating_Media_Video_12-05-14.mp4 if that works better -- not sure why it would say file is corrupt, as you saw with chrome it clearly isn't...

here are related packages i have installed when it crashes:

libvdpau1:amd64 0.7-2
vdpau-va-driver:amd64 0.7.4-3
libva-drm1:amd64 1.3.1-3
libva-glx1:amd64 1.3.1-3
libva-wayland1:amd64 1.3.1-3
libva-x11-1:amd64 1.3.1-3
libva1:amd64 1.3.1-3
libgstreamer-vaapi1.0-0:amd64 0.5.9-2
gstreamer1.0-vaapi:amd64 0.5.9-2
firefox 34.0+build2-0ubuntu0
nvidia-331-updates 331.89-0ubuntu5
nvidia-331-updates-uvm 331.89-0ubuntu5
nvidia-cg-toolkit 3.1.0013-1
 nvidia-libopencl1-331-updates 331.89-0ubuntu5
nvidia-opencl-icd-331-updates 331.89-0ubuntu5
nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8

removal of gstreamer1.0-vaapi also removes libgstreamer-vaapi1.0-0 and libva-glx1, after which firefox is able to successfully play and seek within the video without crashing.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Joe Barnett, it may be the reason I can't reproduce is I have different extensions and plugins installed then you that cause the plugin to not work. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss as to what precisely is causing my not being able to view the video.

[Forage (forage)]

The same issue occurs with the AMD catalyst drivers, so it's not related to just NVIDIA. I'm using Catalyst 14.12.
Starting to play a HTML5 video will instantly crash the browser, no need to seek.

[Forage (forage)]

Upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894372

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

This bug should be closed because Firefox doesn't use gstreamer anymore, see last comment at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=894372

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Mantas Kriaučiūnas, the package gstreamer-vaapi is still available in latest Ubuntu. Also, upstream report notes folks who desire gstream-vaapi with Firefox in select use cases.

Given this report is scoped to the package gstreamer-vaapi crashing when in use, and not firefox support of gstreamer-vaapi, I don't see a problem with leaving this report open until issue is resolved for the original reporter, or issue tested resolved.