Hi, just a quick PSA the latest mesa 24.1.4-2 update causes my desktop (AMD 7480u) to eventually freeze while playing videos on youtube using firefox. The videos are also corrupted when they start playing. No idea if it’s tied to a certain codec or if other applications are also impacted.
I reverted to mesa 24.1.2-7 from the archive repositories. After a reboot no more issues, for now I’m excluding the mesa packages in my updates. Not really sure where to report the issue though.
The issue also seems to be fixable in multiple ways which might further complicate things (can’t really judge as I’m not a packager/developer). But as I understand it now the options seem to be:
revert back to older version of mesa like I’ve done for the moment
use newer mesa version together with ffmpeg fixes, this only fixes systemwide ffmpeg, some applications come with their own bundled version of ffmpeg which might still have issues with newer mesa versions
use newer mesa version together with ffmpeg fixes and also use a fixed version of Firefox, using their own bundled version of ffmpeg, the fixes for this seem to be included from Firefox 130+
