Re: Browser video problems on Bookworm

Jesper <Vitsky.kasperski@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15.05.2025 06:02, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Following a recent update to Bookworm on a Pi5 both Firefox
and Chromium lost the ability to play videos. The video
starts loading, but never begins playing.
 
Anybody else seeing this behavior?
 
Thanks for reading,
 
bob prohaska
 

Yes! Thanks for joining. Please see the thread "Video speed at a crawl".

Thanks, I didn't make the connection till you pointed it out.

There are some replies, but no solution. Druck suggests having a look at
video codecs, if some are hit and some not. I do not know how to find
which codec a video s using, except that a mp4-video shot with my phone
is playing normal, but nearly every video shown in a browser will not
work (speed like 2-3 frames once in a while). For example if you go to
https://tv.nrk.no/serie/fra-boelle-til-bestevenn, you will see a
teaser-video running fine, but if you click on the "Play" button, the
video starts, but at a crawl.

Far as I can tell, they don't even crawl....

I just found a 10 second ideo on this page which does at least play.
It's silent, however:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverfly

Could the absence of sound be significant? Has anybody tested whether
Wayland is the problem? Can't remember if I'm using Wayland or X11 at
the moment...

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska