[Bug 1964547]

[Klubella]

(In reply to temptempor from comment #62)
> (In reply to Gian-Carlo Pascutto [:gcp] from comment #61)
> > >Can you please clarify what does fix-optional status for firefox 100 mean for this bug?
> > 
> > It means that if there is a simple fix for the issue, release management would've considered taking that fix into Firefox 100. As is hopefully rather obvious, there isn't going to be a simple fix for this. It needs a ton of work - that has progressed well, thankfully.
> > 
> > >I assume this bug will be fixed once video decoding has been moved to a utility process (bug 1722051).
> > 
> > The utility process makes it easier to move things in a separate processes each with a custom sandbox, but the plan is to fix the current RDD process for VA-API support before we consider that. The difficulty is adding support for exactly those features VA-API needs - multiplied by each video driver having slightly different requirements. Once the sandboxing code supports that we can look if there'd be a meaningful security benefit in moving things around.
> 
> Is  there an official way of working around this in the meantime? Since disabling RDD sandbox isn't enough anymore on Firefox 100?

For me, it still works with disabling sandbox even on Firefox 100.0. But
I still hope this gets fixed soon. :)

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  [upstream] RDD sandbox prevents HW-accelerated video playback

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