I’ve moved over to the flatpak version of Firefox because of it. But there is this weird bug (which firefox isn’t catching), where a video plays, but then stops randomly and just endlessly flickers.
When I run Firefox via a console I get the following error
[Child 4076, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7ff64a8ace00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_DECODE_ERR (0x806e0004) - virtual mozilla::MediaResult mozilla::FFmpegVideoDecoder<63>::DoDecode(mozilla::MediaRawData*, uint8_t*, int, bool*, mozilla::MediaDataDecoder::DecodedData&): avcodec_send_packet error: Unknown error occurred: file dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:170
The site I most frequtly see it on is on Nebula. My Mint Laptop isn’t impacted and the Flatpak version of Firefox isn’t impacted either.
I spent a good hour on this tonight after I discovered that Amazon product videos did this. I wound up on the flatpak as well. I have no idea what causes it.
