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From:
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject:
Re: ffmpeg-9.0.1 against firefox and friends
To:
Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com>
Cc:
landry@openbsd.org, ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:30:06 +0200

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:00:03 +0200,
Caspar Schutijser <caspar@schutijser.com> 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?

-- 
wbr, Kirill