26.2.0 segfault with gstreamer 1.0, vaapi

[Spicard]

Just upgraded to 26.2.0, and installed gstreamer1.0 good, bad & ugly packages to test out youtube.
However, I got a crash as soon as it tried to load an HTML5 video.

So, I ran in terminal for additional output and got:
libva info: VA-API version 0.36.0
libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_36
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0

** (pale moon:4814): CRITICAL **: gst_video_meta_map_vaapi_memory: assertion 'GST_VAAPI_IS_VIDEO_ALLOCATOR(mem->parent_instance. allocator)' failed
Segmentation fault

I removed gstreamer1.0-vaapi and the segfault was fixed.
But it would be nice if I could use vaapi.

Details of my system:
Debian 8 (x64)
CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U
GPU at the time was Intel® HD Graphics 4400, although this is a bumblebee system that can use nvidia as well.

Let me know if there's any more info I can provide, tracing perhaps. I'm not familiar with logging options for palemoon.

[trava90]

Which version of vaapi are you using? I don't think that this is a Pale Moon bug, but rather a bug in vappi, which was fixed in (I believe) version 0.5.9. Here's the vaapi commit: https://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-vaapi/commit/9cad85a93649b1b6da6084b85f807139e84a41a4?p=vaapi:gstreamer-vaapi.git;a=commit;h=9cad85a93649b1b6da6084b85f807139e84a41a4

[Spicard]

I am using 0.5.9, so this fix should be included judging from this list: https://gitorious.org/vaapi/gstreamer-v ... tags/0.5.9
Debian 8's version number is "0.5.9-2"

[trava90]

Which version of libva do you have installed? Versions prior to 1.3.0 can cause crashes like this as well.

[Spicard]

It looks like I have 1.4.1 for all installed,

spicard@SW3000:~$ sudo aptitude versions libva | grep "^i" -B 1
Package libva-dev:
id 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-drm1:
i A 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-egl1:
i 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-glx1:
i A 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-tpi1:
i 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-wayland1:
i A 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva-x11-1:
i A 1.4.1-1 stable 500
--
Package libva1:
i A 1.4.1-1 stable 500

There's a lot of libva prefixed packaged though. Could there be any missing packages causing the crash?

[trava90]

We've received other reports of oddities when using gstreamer-vaapi. For now, I'd say the best solution is to just not use it.

[trava90]

We've received other reports of oddities when using gstreamer-vaapi. For now, I'd say the best solution is to just not use it.

I installed gstreamer-vaapi on my system, and the results were terrible. YouTube wouldn't even play the video, and CPU usage jumped over 10% higher than normal when on YouTube (and no video was playing!).

So at this point in time, Pale Moon should be considered incompatible with gsteamer-vaapi.

[Moonchild]

Moving this to the Linux board. I don't think we can do much about the interaction of gstreamer with vaapi from the browser side.

[Spicard]

We've received other reports of oddities when using gstreamer-vaapi. For now, I'd say the best solution is to just not use it.

I installed gstreamer-vaapi on my system, and the results were terrible. YouTube wouldn't even play the video, and CPU usage jumped over 10% higher than normal when on YouTube (and no video was playing!).

So at this point in time, Pale Moon should be considered incompatible with gsteamer-vaapi.

Oh well, thanks for looking into it.