Chromium won't play youtube videos

[akontsevich]

Continuing the discussion from Is it a known bug that Chromium doesn't play Youtube videos (openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240118)?:

Exact same issue happened to me with with the latest Chromium on TW: 133.0.6943.98 (openSUSE Build), stable (64 bit). Flatpak version works just fine.

Error screenshot:

Is it a known bug that Chromium doesn't play Youtube videos (openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240118)?

Hi, I have the same problem with Chromium, I can’t watch youtube videos. I get this error [Captura desde 2024-01-20 18-54-02]

All settings cleared (~/.config/chromium deleted), so no extensions, cookies, cache, etc. All codecs from packman installed, etc.

Seems need to reopen 1219070 – Chromium won't play youtube videos bug.

Created:

• 1237071 – Chromium won't play youtube videos, Firefox works OK
• 1237266 – Chromium won't play youtube videos

[myswtest]

@akontsevich wrote:

~/.config/chromium deleted)

Did you also delete everything under

xxxx@yyyy:->  ~/.cache/chromium/*

???

That’s the first thing we’d clear out if having a Chrome-based browser. It’s a common issue that the .cache/chromium* content gets corrupted.

It’s rare we would clear out .config, since it contains user data, settings, etc. If forced to test .config issue, we’d back it up or rename it.

EDIT: There are times when we do clear out the GPUCache/* subdir contents, found down in the .config/chromium … path

[akontsevich]

@myswtest

Did you also delete everything under

Yep, does not help as well. Bug as previous.

@myswtest

EDIT: There are times when we do clear out the GPUCache/* subdir contents, found down in the .config/chromium … path

Do not have this.

[myswtest]

@akontsevich

@myswtest

EDIT: There are times when we do clear out the GPUCache/* subdir contents, found down in the .config/chromium … path

Do not have this.

Yea, it’s not there, because you wiped out the contents of ~/.config/chromium/*

But it will exist when starting up the application … as you can see from my output, it’s there for all the Chrome-based browsers:

xx@yy:~> find . -name GPUCache -ls
     7198 0 drwx------ 58 Jan 17 17:40 ./.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser-Beta/Default/GPUCache
    20900 0 drwx------ 58 Apr  8  2024 ./.config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache
  1964099 0 drwx------ 58 Nov  6 17:48 ./.config/google-chrome-beta/Default/GPUCache
  1964383 0 drwx------ 58 Nov  6 17:48 ./.config/google-chrome-beta/Default/Storage/ext/nmmhkkegccagdldgiimedpiccmgmieda/def/GPUCache
  1964884 0 drwx------ 58 Nov  6 17:48 ./.config/google-chrome-unstable/Default/GPUCache
  1965164 0 drwx------ 58 Nov  6 17:48 ./.config/google-chrome-unstable/Default/Storage/ext/nmmhkkegccagdldgiimedpiccmgmieda/def/GPUCache

  3039117 4 drwx------ 58 Feb 17 12:11 ./.config/chromium/Default/GPUCache

      958 0 drwx------ 58 Apr  8  2024 ./.local/share/openSUSE/org.opensuse.opensuse_welcome/QtWebEngine/Default/GPUCache
   506238 0 drwx------ 58 Jul  1  2024 ./.local/share/konqueror/QtWebEngine/Default/GPUCache
  1078346 0 drwx------ 58 Aug  8  2024 ./.local/share/digikam/QtWebEngine/Default/GPUCache
  1630947 0 drwx------ 58 Sep 27 08:24 ./.local/share/kontact/QtWebEngine/Default/GPUCache
xx@yy:~>

[akontsevich]

Nevertheless it is removed, so problem is not there.

[Vernius]

Hi, I’m getting the chromium bug again when viewing youtube videos. In other instances like Peertube the videos work fine. Regards

System:
  Host: opensuse Kernel: 6.13.2-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.4 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250216
Machine:
  Type: Mini-pc System: AZW product: SER v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: AZW model: SER v: V2.0 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American
    Megatrends LLC. v: SER5H512 date: 09/06/2024
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1112 min/max: 400/4507 cores: 1: 1112 2: 1112 3: 1112
    4: 1112 5: 1112 6: 1112 7: 1112 8: 1112 9: 1112 10: 1112 11: 1112 12: 1112
    13: 1112 14: 1112 15: 1112 16: 1112
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series /
    Radeon Mobile Series] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.4 renderer: AMD Radeon
    Graphics (radeonsi renoir LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.59 6.13.2-1-default)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo,vulkaninfo x11: xprop,xrandr

[Svyatko]

Try to use Vivaldi browser.

For tests run browsers from command prompt.

[myswtest]

@Svyatko

Try to use Vivaldi browser.

Why learn a completely different browser?

In Post #1, we read:

@akontsevich

Flatpak version works just fine.

So, they do have a Chromium option that works