Add Firefox 132+ to list of HEVC-supporting browsers #5876

fanonwue · 2024-08-05T02:34:49Z

Mozilla implemented support for HEVC decoding using WMF on Windows. Support for HEVC playback is being tested anyway using the canPlayHevc() function, so this should be a safe change for other operating systems (or systems without hardware HEVC decoding) as well.

Changes
Firefox (121 and later) supports HEVC decode in fMP4 containers when it's using the new WMF-based media backend, so it should be added to the conditional check for that. The new backend is only available on Windows and not enabled by default (iirc), but when it's present, decoding works perfectly.
The canPlayHevc() function correctly reports decoding capabilities, so a fallback to H264 happens when media.wmf.hevc.enabled is disabled, WMF is not present or no hardware decoding is available (I was only able to test this using WSL2 so far, but I doubt that this is going to be different for "real" systems).

Issues
Fixes #5706

EDIT: Changed version in title to 132 as there have been bugs regarding 10-bit HEVC in earlier versions.

Mozilla implemented support for HEVC decoding using WMF on Windows. Support for HEVC playback is being tested anyway using the canPlayHevc() function, so this should be a safe change for other operating systems (or systems without hardware HEVC decoding) as well. Fixes jellyfin#5706

gnattu · 2024-08-11T18:37:44Z

Firefox does not support 10bit HEVC and is lying with the feature tests. The playback will automatically fallback to transcoding with our fail and retry mechanism, but I think it is better to add check here:

jellyfin-web/src/scripts/browserDeviceProfile.js

Lines 964 to 983 in 9fe9666

    
           // hevc main10 level 4.1 
        
           if (videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hvc1.2.4.L123"').replace(/no/, '') 
        
                   || videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hev1.2.4.L123"').replace(/no/, '')) { 
        
               maxHevcLevel = 123; 
        
               hevcProfiles = 'main|main 10'; 
        
           } 
        
           // hevc main10 level 5.1 
        
           if (videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hvc1.2.4.L153"').replace(/no/, '') 
        
                   || videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hev1.2.4.L153"').replace(/no/, '')) { 
        
               maxHevcLevel = 153; 
        
               hevcProfiles = 'main|main 10'; 
        
           } 
        
           // hevc main10 level 6.1 
        
           if (videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hvc1.2.4.L183"').replace(/no/, '') 
        
                   || videoTestElement.canPlayType('video/mp4; codecs="hev1.2.4.L183"').replace(/no/, '')) { 
        
               maxHevcLevel = 183; 
        
               hevcProfiles = 'main|main 10'; 
        
           }

Basically we should skip these main10 profile tests for Firefox so that they are not mistakenly marked as supported to avoid unnecessary retry and reduce video load time.

fanonwue · 2024-08-14T15:21:28Z

Nothing can ever be easy, huh?

So basically if the browser is Firefox, we should only add main and not main 10 to the profiles, right?

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fanonwue · 2024-08-14T15:49:06Z

I have added an override for Firefox's real capabilities at the end of the block of checks that determine HEVC profile compatibility (seems cleaner to me to do it at the end instead of making each condition longer, I doubt the "unnecessary" checks will make a significant difference).

jellyfin-web/src/scripts/browserDeviceProfile.js

Lines 983 to 987 in dac35a1

    
           // Firefox does not support 10-bit HEVC, but is lying about it's capabilities 
        
           if (browser.firefox) { 
        
               maxHevcLevel = 123; 
        
               hevcProfiles = 'main'; 
        
           }

I was able to test this using a HEVC main and HEVC main10 video. The main10 one even gets transcoded into HEVC again (the setting for that is still on auto). Playback works perfectly, the main profile one is using direct play.

What @gnattu said confused me a bit tbh, because it was working before as well. But checking the logs showed that Jellyfin did an automatic fallback to transcoding when playback of the the main10 video failed. So I guess it's better to catch this beforehand.

This override will need to be removed once Firefox supports main10 playback though. Sad that they don't report the capabilities correctly.

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fanonwue · 2024-08-29T14:50:21Z

Hi,

I understand that you are probably quite busy. But I wanted to ask whether anyone from the JF team thinks we can proceed with adding this? Is there something else I could do?

gnattu · 2024-08-29T18:34:54Z

Please be patient as the web team is super busy. It is normal that a PR is not merged for weeks as lots of mine are in this state as well. I'm good with your current solution but we still need the web team members to look at it.

kam821 · 2024-09-01T20:03:30Z

It may be a good idea to further restrict HEVC to Windows only by adding appropriate check:
(browser.firefox && browser.versionMajor >= 121 && browser.windows)
Bugs I've noticed so far - on one HEVC-encoded video, a horizontal, green line is displayed at the bottom of the video content.
So far, this problem only affects one video (series). Once, randomly I managed to play that title without that line appearing, but generally this line is almost always displayed.

Green line:

Encoding parameters of problematic video (container: mkv):

gnattu · 2024-09-01T23:07:20Z

It may be a good idea to further restrict HEVC to Windows only by adding appropriate check:

Firefox on other platforms do not report HEVC as supported so this is currently redundant

Bugs I've noticed so far - on one HEVC-encoded video, a horizontal, green line is displayed at the bottom of the video content.

We can do little if it is a firefox bug

kam821 · 2024-09-02T19:26:03Z

We can do little if it is a firefox bug

This may not necessarily be a problem with Firefox itself.
I found some links that describe same/similar problem that has been fixed in the past.
jellyfin/jellyfin#2292
jellyfin/jellyfin#3021
jellyfin/jellyfin#5535

nyanmisaka · 2024-09-02T20:04:46Z

We can do little if it is a firefox bug

This may not necessarily be a problem with Firefox itself. I found some links that describe same/similar problem that has been fixed in the past. jellyfin/jellyfin#2292 jellyfin/jellyfin#3021 jellyfin/jellyfin#5535

One is an AMD driver issue and the other two are a QSV filter issue I handled in the past. They are not related to this one because there is no hardware transcoding involved. If Chrome doesn't have this problem on the same file, then you need to wait for Firefox to fix their frame cropping.

GodTamIt · 2024-09-22T13:47:40Z

Firefox does not support 10bit HEVC and is lying with the feature tests.

@gnattu Which feature tests/under which conditions is Firefox lying? I recently filed a related bug and may look into upstreaming a fix for it so might be useful to collect all issues into a fix.

This link might be helpful: https://cconcolato.github.io/media-mime-support

gnattu · 2024-09-22T14:12:37Z

Which feature tests/under which conditions is Firefox lying?

Firefox reports HEVC main10 as supported for canPlayType() method but it actually does not, see code quoted here for the real test.

nyanmisaka · 2024-10-30T07:23:28Z

@fanonwue Just tested Firefox 132 stable with media.wmf.hevc.enabled == 1 and found that HEVC Main 10 playback has been fixed in this version. Client-side HDR tonemapping is still not supported. But I think this PR can go ahead.

fanonwue · 2024-10-30T11:35:52Z

@fanonwue Just tested Firefox 132 stable with media.wmf.hevc.enabled == 1 and found that HEVC Main 10 playback has been fixed in this version. Client-side HDR tonemapping is still not supported. But I think this PR can go ahead.

In that case, do you want me to adjust the workaround to only work below 132?

nyanmisaka · 2024-10-30T14:57:47Z

In that case, do you want me to adjust the workaround to only work below 132?

Since HEVC is experimental in older versions, I don't think it's necessary to add a workaround specifically for those broken versions, as browser updates are usually frequent.

fanonwue · 2024-10-30T16:14:04Z

In that case, do you want me to adjust the workaround to only work below 132?

Since HEVC is experimental in older versions, I don't think it's necessary to add a workaround specifically for those broken versions, as browser updates are usually frequent.

Sorry, this is my first time contributing to a larger project: Do you want me to revert the last commit that introduced the override then? I think it would be good to update the minimum FF version to 132 then as well, I've set it to 121 in the original commit.

nyanmisaka · 2024-10-30T17:24:06Z

Sorry, this is my first time contributing to a larger project: Do you want me to revert the last commit that introduced the override then? I think it would be good to update the minimum FF version to 132 then as well, I've set it to 121 in the original commit.

It should be enough to bump the checked version up to 132.
All that's left is for the user to manually enable the experimental flag in Firefox.

HEVC 10bit was broken before, but the support seems to be mores table now

sonarcloud · 2024-10-31T21:27:38Z

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fanonwue · 2024-10-31T21:27:48Z

It should be enough to bump the checked version up to 132.

I've removed the previous override (disallowing HEVC main10) and raised the minimum version to 132.

gnattu · 2024-10-31T21:31:20Z

We have more problems regarding this because Firefox 132 on Windows is lying again where it will report HEVC as supported even that flag is disabled as long as the media codec extension is installed which is super annoying. In the worst case we have to implement manual switch for Firefox users to enable this manually but I really don't want to go that approach.

fanonwue · 2024-11-06T23:05:10Z

We have more problems regarding this because Firefox 132 on Windows is lying again where it will report HEVC as supported even that flag is disabled as long as the media codec extension is installed which is super annoying

Just tested it with Firefox Nightly 134 and this does not happen. My test video is HEVC main10, it's streaming directly when setting media.wmf.hevc.enabled to 1. But when you set it back to 0 (and restart the browser), it gets transcoded to H264 again.

EDIT: Also works with stable 132. I think the important part is to restart the browser. It works for HEVC main and HEVC main10.

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HEVC support for Firefox 120/121+ (Windows) #5706

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Raise minimum Firefox version to 132 for HEVC playback

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HEVC 10bit was broken before, but the support seems to be mores table now

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