Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again

Message-ID	<69374806@news.ausics.net> (permalink)
From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
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Date	2025-12-09 07:49 +1000
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bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
>> bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>>> Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback in
>>> both Firefox and Chromium browsers. The video starts to load, thumbnails
>>> keep coming but the playback doesn't start and there's no sound. 
>>> 
>>> I've tested it on the New York Times, YouTube, Netflix and some homemade
>>> videos that used to work. Now nothing plays, failing in the same way.
>> 
>> When you start Firefox from a terminal does it complain about any
>> missing libraries? Do video files play in other programs using
>> libavcodec (mplayer, ffplay)?
> 
> If I point firefox at www.youtube.com the controlling terminal
> reports a series of

Well it's not complaining about missing/broken libraries like
libavcodec, so maybe that's working. Still I say again: Do video
files play in other programs using libavcodec (mplayer, ffplay)?

> I've not paid any attention to controlling terminals on RasPiOS recently, 
> so I don't really know what to expect. It certainly looks like both Firefox
> and Chromium have things to complain about.

In my experience Firefox complains a lot (I don't use Chrom*), so
it's not clear if those messages are relevent to your problem, but
you could try disabling graphics acceleration in the settings since
the warnings/errors are about that.

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Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-07 01:38 +0000
  Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-07 12:08 +0000
    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-07 15:49 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-07 23:41 +0000
  Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-08 10:29 +1000
    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-08 03:44 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-12-09 07:49 +1000
        Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-08 22:28 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-12-08 22:33 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-12-09 10:42 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-21 02:57 +0000
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    Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-18 06:52 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again bp@www.zefox.net - 2025-12-18 16:53 +0000
      Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-20 17:38 +1000
        Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-20 22:51 +0000
          Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-22 10:50 +1000
            Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 04:44 +0000
              Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-12-22 15:53 +1000
                Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-12-22 23:14 +0000

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