BBC News and BBC iPlayer videos show black screen or error

The same thing happens on my two Dell laptops (Inspiron and Latitude), and a Hyper-V VM (on my desktop PC). They all run Bazzite Linux 6.17.7-ba25.fc43.x86_64. A video m… (read more)

The same thing happens on my two Dell laptops (Inspiron and Latitude), and a Hyper-V VM (on my desktop PC). They all run Bazzite Linux 6.17.7-ba25.fc43.x86_64.

A video may play for a second or two, and then it's either a black screen, or an error message of "The content doesn't seem to be working."

On the same two laptops and VM, the Chromium Browser, and LibreWolf (a fork of Firefox?), have no issues playing the same videos.

Firefox version on all three systems is 147.0.3.

Any help/guidance welcome with thanks.

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Firefox Audio and Video TechD replied 3 hours ago

AV1 Hardware Acceleration stopped working

AV1 Hardware Acceleration stopped working. In about:support->Media->Codec Support Information Firefox states that Harware Decode AV1 is supported but it uses only S… (read more)

AV1 Hardware Acceleration stopped working. In about:support->Media->Codec Support Information Firefox states that Harware Decode AV1 is supported but it uses only Software Decoding. AV1 worked perfeclty before in Firefox, is still working in other browsers and apps in my system.

System Specs: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-19-generic Asrock Intel Arc A380 Firefox 149.0 (64-bit)

export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD export LIBVA_DRM_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD129 export MOZ_DRM_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD129

vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0 libva info: User environment variable requested driver 'iHD' libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.12.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 24.1.0 () vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints 

     VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc
     VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointStats
     VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointEncPicture
     VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVP9Profile0            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileVP9Profile1            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVP9Profile1            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVP9Profile2            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileVP9Profile3            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileVP9Profile3            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain12             :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain422_10         :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain422_10         :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain422_12         :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain444            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain444            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain444_10         :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCMain444_10         :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCMain444_12         :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain10          :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain10          :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain444         :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain444         :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileAV1Profile0            :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileAV1Profile0            :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10      :	VAEntrypointVLD
     VAProfileHEVCSccMain444_10      :	VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
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