Re: Youtube not playing again...

On 21/08/2024 16:36, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:06:01 -0000 (UTC), bp wrote:
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Since an update a few days ago Chromium on Bookworm and Wayland have
stopped playing YouTube videos.

I won't just blame Wayland with no evidence.

Not familiar with youtube-dl, but I tried looking at my Netflix account.
Same story: I can view the catalog page, click on a video, the video
window opens but then gets stuck. It's an ad-free account, so ad blocker
issues can't be in play unless the ad blocker is mistaking content for ads..

I doubt if Netflix or any streaming service will work, as they require DRM features which aren't in Chromium. Google Chrome on my x86 Linux laptop is the only thing that will play services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Leading up to this state of affairs I've seen numerous "page unresponsive"
messages. The reload button never works, but closing the tab and opening
a new one to the same (in this case, YouTube) page permitted normal operation
for at least a few (sometimes many) minutes.

I had problems with Chromium on my Pi 4Bs becoming unresponsive and not displaying the BBC news pages correctly. That was with the 32 bit variant of Bullseye. I did a semi-in-place upgrade to 64 bit, and the Chromium on that, even though it had the same version number, worked perfectly.
If you are a Pi 4 or 5, I would recommend moving to the 64 bit version of the OS, as I suspect the 32 bit variants of heavy weight desktop apps, such as browsers, are not going get as much attention. Plus 64 bit is a bit faster, as long as you have plenty of memory, (don't try it on a 1MB 3B+).
---druck