no colour in youtube videos when using firefox and my user session

rdikarlus

Hi all,
Love using NetBSD as my daily os at home - also in some servers at work. I have a strange problem when watching youtube videos with firefox 117.0.1 (64-bit) running NetBSD 10 RC1. I can only see them in black and white, no color at all... sound works fine, quality is also fine but no color. Videos works normal - colorful - when using seamonkey and also with firefox in other users session. Any Idea where's the probleme ? .
Thanks for your help !

rvp

rdikarlus I have a strange problem when watching youtube videos with firefox 117.0.1 (64-bit) running NetBSD 10 RC1. I can only see them in black and white, no color at all... sound works fine, quality is also fine but no color. Videos works normal - colorful - when using seamonkey and also with firefox in other users session.

Do you have a add-on installed which greyscales videos? Or, do you have a CSS greyscaling filter applied for YouTube?

rdikarlus

I found out the problem. I added this line to my .xsession file:

export LANG=es_ES.UTF-8

In order to have my wm in Spanish. This was causing the problem. Once I cancelled this line, firefox displays the videos properly again. That was the reason when another user logged in, firefox was displaying videos correctly.

Thanks for the help!

rvp

rdikarlus I had almost thought you were pulling my leg with this, except that I just tried

env LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 firefox

and...

I got no video playing back at all: it "plays" but, the "video" is blank (all black).
A lot of graphics elements (rounded corners, some labels, ...) just aren't rendered.

File a pkgsrc PR.