Re: Browser video problems on Bookworm

On 16/05/2025 18:31, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

I just tried copying an old mp4 file that used to play in Chromium via
http to my local Pi5. The video has incidental sound. Played locally
with VLC the video runs, but silently.
 Played locally with chromium, it does not run at all. Progress bar stuck
at zero.

Do you have any extensions installed which may affect video, such as h264ify?

Not sure what to make of this behavior, but it does seem that chromium
fails worse than VLC.

Is Firefox any better?
---druck