For about a week i have trouble playing youtube and some other streaming services. The videos load, they buffer, but they don’t start. I can click forward on the bar, and it skips to new images, but they don’t play. I have tried different browsers but the problem persists.
Your system is on the low end of spec. YouTube does support AV1 encoded video, which is quite hardware intensive. It might be possible to disable AV1 support, but how will be browser specific.
Yes i have tried the latest mainline and LTS kernels. I have also tried an empty profile and both Firefox and Chrome. I can play stuff with MPV/VLC. Further testing shows that i get stuck when i switch in between sources, i watch a clip on Youtube, pause it and open up MPV and listen to some music. If i go back to the clip on Youtube it have stuck, and i can’t play another clip. If i try to listen to music via MPV it has also stuck. The only thing that solves it temporarily for some time is to reboot, bur only for a while.
Sorry for my English, it is not my native language, but i try my best : ) Silvia.
Hello Bink, thanks for getting back to me, i will do that. Yes my computer i kind of a potato, i know, but it has worked beautifully until a couple of days ago.
The video being played back there appears to be 50fps. If you drop the video resolution down to a setting where the higher framerate is not used does it resolve it? That’s about 720p if memory serves.
The video in your example is using the VP9 codec. That’s not nearly as hardware intensive as the AV1 codec that supersedes it. If it were AV1, there’s probably a bit more you can do to address it, but VP9 is quite ubiquitous and there’s not so much.
I wonder that the VP9 codec is not hardware decoded by your generation of hardware, whereas the H.264 and H.265 alternatives, are commonly hardware decoded. Just a thought.
To help understand the issue, it’d be worthwhile seeing the “Stats for nerds” of a video that works too. I’d suspect they’re no more than 30fps, and/or encoded with H.264 or H.265.
The first one is 720 the second 1080. Further testing shows that when i switch in between sources i get stuck, both in Youtube and audio via celluloid/mpv.
Hello,
It should not be a question of source, both, the video and the music can be played at the same time (it sounds ugly, but you can do it ).
For example play a Youtube video with :
mpv 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zOi8h-Uds'
and for audio, in Thunar, right click on the audio file → open with mpv.
Did you try with two different players, for example mpv for the video and Parole for the music ( which don’t depends on mpv).
youtube is a miserable, mostly unplayable nightmare lately. call me tinfoilly but the more control I relenquish in Umatrix, the happier youtube gets. Or disabling extensions completely also has a positive effect: poof the sluggishness disappears. I’m convinced they are testing extensions and/or discouraging them. I think they value their canvassing/fingerprinting more and more lately–that’s the only explanation that makes sense to me.
The key info there is your GPU appears to support H.264 hardware accelerated decoding. It supports MPEG2 as well but that’s not particularly relevant to modern streamed content, but may apply to DVD’s and such.
The current widely used codecs missing there in terms of internet streaming, and therefore not hardware accelerated are:
VP8
VP9
H.265
AV1
You have reported issues with VP9 (@50fps) and AV1 (not surprisingly).
It’s perhaps worth seeing if this issue persists with H.264 encoded videos. If it does, it would seem it’s not a matter of (just) whether it’s hardware decoded or not.
The situation of hardware decoding in web browser in Linux is not great, but Silvia’s GPU+CPU is good enough for watching videos on Youtube (I had an i3-3220 which is similar to her CPU with worse GPU), even with no hardware decoding.
Few years ago, I could watch AV1 videos in 1080p with a CPU that is a little bit more powerful, it seems Silvia has no problem watching a video, only when switching sources.
OK, so yesterday this started to happen to me but I believe that the specs for my machine are a bit higher yet I cannot do any video playback. Streaming or local. Not sure what all information would be needed but here you go.
[nexxuz@firefly ~]$ sudo lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
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system Latitude 5500 (08B9)
/0 bus 0M14W7
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/1c memory 16GiB System Memory
/0/1c/0 memory 16GiB SODIMM DDR4 Synchronous 2667 MHz (0.4 ns)
/0/1c/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/25 memory 256KiB L1 cache
/0/26 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/27 memory 6MiB L3 cache
/0/28 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8365U CPU @ 1.60GHz
/0/100 bridge Coffee Lake HOST and DRAM Controller
/0/100/2 /dev/fb0 display WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
/0/100/4 generic Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem
/0/100/8 generic Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
/0/100/12 generic Cannon Point-LP Thermal Controller
/0/100/14 bus Cannon Point-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Controller
/0/100/14/0 usb1 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/0/1 bus USB2.1 Hub
/0/100/14/0/1/1 bus USB2.1 Hub
/0/100/14/0/1/1/1 generic USB C Video Adaptor
/0/100/14/0/1/2 bus USB2.0 Hub
/0/100/14/0/1/2/1 card0 multimedia USB PnP Audio Device
/0/100/14/0/1/2/2 input Corsair Gaming K55 RGB Keyboard
/0/100/14/0/1/2/4 input USB Receiver
/0/100/14/0/1/2/4/0 input50 input Logitech M310
/0/100/14/0/1/3 generic CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller
/0/100/14/0/6 multimedia Integrated_Webcam_HD
/0/100/14/0/8 generic 58200
/0/100/14/0/a communication Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP)
/0/100/14/1 usb2 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/1/1 bus USB3.1 Hub
/0/100/14/1/1/1 bus USB3.1 Hub
/0/100/14/1/1/1/2 communication AX88179A
/0/100/14/1/1/1/3 scsi1 storage Mass Storage Device
/0/100/14/1/1/1/3/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk SD/MMC
/0/100/14/1/1/1/3/0.0.0/0 /dev/sda disk
/0/100/14/1/1/1/3/0.0.1 /dev/sdb disk Micro SD/M2
/0/100/14/1/1/1/3/0.0.1/0 /dev/sdb disk
/0/100/14/1/1/1/4 generic USB Station
/0/100/14/1/1/2 bus USB3.0 Hub
/0/100/14.2 memory RAM memory
/0/100/14.3 wlan0 network Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC]
/0/100/15 bus Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
/0/100/15.1 bus Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
/0/100/16 communication Cannon Point-LP MEI Controller #1
/0/100/16.3 communication Cannon Point-LP Keyboard and Text (KT) Redirection
/0/100/17 storage Cannon Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
/0/100/19 bus Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Host Controller
/0/100/1c bridge Cannon Point PCI Express Root Port #8
/0/100/1c/0 mmc0 bus RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader
/0/100/1d bridge Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #13
/0/100/1d/0 /dev/nvme0 storage WD Blue SN570 500GB
/0/100/1d/0/0 hwmon3 disk NVMe disk
/0/100/1d/0/2 /dev/ng0n1 disk NVMe disk
/0/100/1d/0/1 /dev/nvme0n1 disk 500GB NVMe disk
/0/100/1d/0/1/1 /dev/nvme0n1p1 volume 299MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/1d/0/1/2 /dev/nvme0n1p2 volume 448GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1d/0/1/3 /dev/nvme0n1p3 volume 16GiB Linux swap volume
/0/100/1f bridge Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller
/0/100/1f/0 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f/1 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f/2 system AT Real-Time Clock
/0/100/1f/3 generic PnP device INT3f0d
/0/100/1f/4 input IBM Enhanced keyboard controller (101/2-key)
/0/100/1f/5 generic PnP device DLL08b9
/0/100/1f/6 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f/7 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f/8 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f/9 system Motherboard registers
/0/100/1f.3 card1 multimedia Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1f.3/0 input25 input HDA Intel PCH Headphone Mic
/0/100/1f.3/1 input26 input HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3
/0/100/1f.3/2 input27 input HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7
/0/100/1f.3/3 input28 input HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8
/0/100/1f.4 bus Cannon Point-LP SMBus Controller
/0/100/1f.5 bus Cannon Point-LP SPI Controller
/1 power DELL C5GV285
/2 input0 input Lid Switch
/3 input1 input Power Button
/4 input13 input DELL08B9:00 0488:121F Mouse
/5 input14 input DELL08B9:00 0488:121F Touchpad
/6 input15 input DELL08B9:00 0488:121F UNKNOWN
/7 input2 input Sleep Button
/8 input20 input Video Bus
/9 input3 input AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/a input5 input Intel HID events
/b input51 input ckb1: Corsair Gaming K55 RGB Keyboard vKB
/c input52 input ckb1: Corsair Gaming K55 RGB Keyboard vM
/d input6 input Intel HID 5 button array
/e input7 input PC Speaker
/f input8 input PS/2 Generic Mouse
/10 input9 input Dell WMI hotkeys
/11 eth0 network AX88179A
It is worth noting that i get this kind of problems when i switch back and forth between video and audio sources, i am well aware of that my computer is not capable to stream video with the latest codecs, but it will do for now. When i get stuck i can not play any video or audio at all, is going from pulse audio to pipewire worth trying?
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