[Dev] iceweasel 98

bill-auger bill-auger at peers.community
Fri Mar 18 06:48:28 GMT 2022


the video on the gnu.org home page plays correctly for me too -
youtube also - could you try these:

on this site, the video plays; but the sound is garbled:
  https://www.adultswim.com/streams/rick-and-morty

on this site, the video page loads but is empty:
  https://pluto.tv/en/live-tv/the-bob-ross-channel

this site is perhaps using one of those cloudflare-like
gatekeeper services - i could not even find a video to test -
regardless of the URL (even the home page),
it redirects to a 500 page:
  https://therokuchannel.roku.com

i compared the difference between the .BUILDINFO in the 97.0.2 
in libre (which has no media problems) and the one i compiled
a few days later (which has the same media problems as 98) -
the only one which popped out at me was 'libvpx' (the VP9 codec) -
however, when i compiled v98 against the same 'libvpx' as the
libre package, it had the same problems

IIRC, i first tried compiling v97.0.2 against the new (old)
'ffmpeg4.4' (the one arch is using, to avoid ffmpeg v5) -
although the working package was compiled against ffmpeg v5 -
it was worth a try; but there was no change -
'ffmpeg' and 'libvpx' are the most likely culprits
(and the only obvious ones);
so the available trouble-shooting options are dwindling

i am compiling 97.0.2 now, against the previous 'libvpx' -
if it has the same problem, i will put it in libre-testing;
and i will compile again, with _all_ of the same packages
which were installed when the package in libre was compiled


in summary:

iceweasel 97.0.2 (libvpx=1.11.0-1, ffmpeg=5)   -> no problems
iceweasel 97.0.2 (libvpx=1.11.0-2, ffmpeg=5)   -> media playback problems
iceweasel 97.0.2 (libvpx=1.11.0-2, ffmpeg=4.4) -> media playback problems
iceweasel 98.0   (libvpx=1.11.0-1, ffmpeg=4.4) -> media playback problems
iceweasel 98.0   (libvpx=1.11.0-2, ffmpeg=4.4) -> media playback problems


this is the diff between the working published package (97.0.2-1.parabola1)
and the problematic on (97.0.2-1.parabola2):

$ Untar() { tar xf $1 .BUILDINFO --to-stdout ; }
diff <(Untar pkgs/iceweasel-1\:97.0.2-1.parabola1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst) \
     <(Untar pkgs/iceweasel-1\:97.0.2-1.parabola2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst)
4c4
< pkgver = 1:97.0.2-1.parabola1
---
> pkgver = 1:97.0.2-1.parabola2
6c6
< pkgbuild_sha256sum = 08c77cf2df98458921b4c14337101d9b2402d9c266daf3dd3fb58b68a684f575
---
> pkgbuild_sha256sum = 8de9fee1f603ebe03098376c386f629ffed07bfc57f0bbcc74a807c56a4b96b0
8c8
< builddate = 1646705959
---
> builddate = 1647083243
35c35
< installed = archlinux32-keyring-20220131-1.1.parabola1-any
---
> installed = archlinux32-keyring-20220209-1.0-any
63c63
< installed = curl-7.81.0-3-x86_64
---
> installed = curl-7.82.0-1-x86_64
76c76
< installed = fakeroot-1.27-1-x86_64
---
> installed = fakeroot-1.28-1-x86_64
102c102
< installed = gpgme-1.17.0-2-x86_64
---
> installed = gpgme-1.17.1-1-x86_64
112c112
< installed = harfbuzz-4.0.0-1-x86_64
---
> installed = harfbuzz-4.0.1-1-x86_64
214c214
< installed = libvpx-1.11.0-1-x86_64
---
> installed = libvpx-1.11.0-2-x86_64
312c312
< installed = sudo-1.9.9-2-x86_64
---
> installed = sudo-1.9.10-1-x86_64
336c336
< installed = vulkan-icd-loader-1.2.203-1-x86_64
---
> installed = vulkan-icd-loader-1.3.207-1-x86_64


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