Re: Browser video problems on Bookworm

druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

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?
 

The only manually added extension is ublock.origin. It wasn't causing
problems before the OS update. Turning off ublock.origin and h264ify
and restarting chromium made no difference.

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

 
Is Firefox any better?
>

Not really, it still doesn't play but does display the initial frame.
Turning off extensions (h264ify and ublock.origin) makes no difference.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska