Re: ffmpeg-9.0.1 against firefox and friends

Caspar Schutijser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 01:30:06AM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:00:03 +0200,
> Caspar Schutijser <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't realize it's preferable to have ffmpeg 9 in OpenBSD 8.0
> > but that makes sense now that sthen@ mentions it. So indeed a good idea
> > to move ahead with that.
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 02:45:35PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Hmm, okay. I don't know enough about this to know what will and what
> > won't work, but ..
> > 
> > > Not sure that watching videos via Tor network or Tor Browser is actually a
> > > use case.
> > 
> > .. in the past I have received an email (or perhaps emails) from users
> > regarding Tor Browser and the ability to play videos, so I know for a
> > fact that some people use it like that.
> > 
> > If you're indeed willing to make a patch, that would be great (even
> > if it would be a big one). As I mentioned, I can't test in the next
> > 1.5 weeks but if you or perhaps someone else is able to test the patch
> > then I'm fine with it being committed as soon as it's ready.
> >
> 
> Sure, as promised here the diff.
> 
> It was tested on this video: https://test-videos.co.uk/bigbuckbunny/mp4-h264
> 
> I have used tor-browser from my prebuided packages for ffmepg-9.0:
> https://kirill.korins.ky/pub/packages/ffmpeg-9.0.1/
> 
> It can't play the smallest one on system with ffmpeg-9.0.1, but after I
> applied and this patch to tor-browser and rebuild it, it plays video well.
> 
> Sorry for attached diff, it is really large.
> 
> Ok?

OK caspar@

Thanks!
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