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Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub

Message-ID <67d20015@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
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Date 2025-03-13 07:43 +1000
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Computer Nerd Kev  <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>>> It's specific to Firefox playing the video.
>> 
>> Does Firefox use GPU hardware video decoding (look for
>> "HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING" on the about:support page)? I'm not sure
>> if mplayer does hardware video decoding, ffmpeg requires specific
>> options to enable it. You also need the relevent drivers installed.
>> Hardware will also only support certain codecs, so it's possible
>> that only Firefox is using it, with a video format used by YouTube.
> 
> It is "available". I don't know if it gets used, but probably. Youtube
> videos play, so however it happens, it works.

They'd play with CPU decoding as well, but it sounds like a good
possibility that hardware decoding is used on YouTube.

> You think something about hardware video decoding could bump my hub off?

I gather this is some laptop/tablet computer since you say it's a
"Surface". These days they tend to build lots of functions into the
same chip ("lspci" often shows evidence of this) with such
computers, and the same chip doing USB and graphics is quite
possible. So I can easily imagine a bug in one driver, for h/w
video decoding on the GPU, messing up USB if it's done on the same
chip.

> Is there an about config to try turning that off?

I disable video playback in Firefox so I don't know for sure, but
this setting looks like a safe bet for disabling it in
about:config:

media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled = false

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riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-11 20:00 +0000
  Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-11 20:18 +0000
    Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-11 20:31 +0000
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-03-11 20:55 +0000
        Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-12 01:28 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 11:59 +0000
            Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-15 22:25 +0000
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-03-12 12:43 +1000
        Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-12 04:45 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 12:01 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-03-12 12:48 +0000
            Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-13 03:31 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-03-13 07:43 +1000
            Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-13 04:38 +0000
              Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-03-13 12:47 +0000
              Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-15 22:28 +0000
                Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-03-17 07:54 +1000
        Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 12:00 +0000
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-12 03:10 +0000
        Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-12 04:47 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-03-12 21:55 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-15 22:26 +0000
            Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-16 00:05 +0000
              Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-03-16 19:08 +0000
                Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-16 21:43 +0000
              Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2025-03-17 10:31 +0000
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 11:57 +0000
  Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-12 08:55 +0000
  Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-13 08:24 +0100
    Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-13 08:31 +0100
    Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-14 04:54 +0000
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-14 07:40 +0100
      Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-14 11:15 +0100
        Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-03-14 22:56 +0000
          Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-15 09:02 +0000
            Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-03-15 19:47 +0000
              Re: riddle me this: youtube kills my usb hub The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-03-16 01:39 +0000

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