Re: ffmpeg-9.0.1 against firefox and friends

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:29:53 +0200,
[email protected] wrote:
> 
> Le Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Stuart Henderson a écrit :
> > On 2026/08/19 12:35, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > > So, we're waiting Tor Browser which may or may not be released in September?
> > > 
> > > Let me quote their blog:
> > > 
> > > > For the remainder of this release cycle, we will be focusing on auditing
> > > > these issues and fixing bugs until the 16.0 alpha series is ready to
> > > > become Tor Browser Stable 16.0. We are optimistically targeting a
> > > > September release, which would put us one month ahead of schedule compared
> > > > to last year.
> > > 
> > > Not sure that it is good idea, because we need some room to fix that is
> > > fixed, special if release is targeted in October.
> > > 
> > > I plan to go in patches to bring support of ffmpeg-9.0 this week, continue
> > > run my bulk and I think that the next week, if amd64 / arm64 bulks are ok
> > > with that fixes, is good time to go ffmpeg-9.0.1 in.
> > > 
> > > At least it buys a few weeks to test and fix before the lock.
> > 
> > If we want FFmpeg 9.x for OpenBSD 8.0 (which is probably a good thing as
> > far as 8.0-stable is concerned), it needs to go in soon. It's used by
> > 100+ ports and we're not going to get good runtime testing across archs
> > until some time after snapshot packages are available.
> > 
> > I think it's better to patch Tor Browser to work with it rather than
> > wait for a new release at an unknown date.
> 
> yeah i've never said we should wait for tor browser to support it ootb,
> rather to patch it by backporting
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2057577 :)
> 
> i also support ffmpeg 9 in the tree soonish to have some runtime
> testing...
> 

I can make a patch releatvly fast, but it won't be a small one:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr153/rev/bdb74c45c2e1

But, again, Tor-Browser will work without that patch, just some video won't
work. Not all of them. Just some.

Not sure that watching videos via Tor network or Tor Browser is actually a
use case.

-- 
wbr, Kirill