Native Google Chrome takes more than 5 seconds to show the image of any video

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My native Google Chrome (RPM) hangs videos for 5 seconds with a black screen every time the video starts or the window is resized. However, the Flatpak version works (though with stutters). This happens on both Wayland and X11.
GPU: GTX 1650 Super (Driver 580.126.18)
Desktop: KDE Plasma (Wayland/X11)

abdulrhman@localhost:~$ nvidia-smi
Thu May  7 18:03:16 2026       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.18             Driver Version: 580.126.18     CUDA Version: 13.0     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 ...    On  |   00000000:06:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   52C    P0             27W /  100W |     794MiB /   4096MiB |      1%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A           75873      G   /usr/bin/Xorg.bin                        21MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           75944      G   /usr/bin/ksecretd                         1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76020      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                    61MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76059      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                         2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76081      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76083      G   /usr/bin/kded6                            1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76166      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                    164MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76181      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76182      G   ...it-kde-authentication-agent-1          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76274      G   /usr/bin/python3                          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76282      G   /usr/bin/Telegram                         1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76299      G   /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifier             1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76300      G   /usr/bin/kalendarac                       1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76346      G   ...ibexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76378    C+G   /usr/bin/python                          14MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76457      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_control                  1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76528      G   ...bin/akonadi_archivemail_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76532      G   ...konadi_followupreminder_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76533      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_google_resource          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76534      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_google_resource          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76535      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_google_resource          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76541      G   .../akonadi_maildispatcher_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76542      G   .../bin/akonadi_mailfilter_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76543      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_mailmerge_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76546      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_migration_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76549      G   ...akonadi_newmailnotifier_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76551      G   /usr/bin/akonadi_sendlater_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76552      G   .../akonadi_unifiedmailbox_agent          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76704      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd6                        1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           76979      G   /app/share/mailspring/mailspring         41MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           77630      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox              200MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           77988      G   ...asma-browser-integration-host          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           81572      G   /usr/libexec/baloorunner                  1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           89994      G   /usr/bin/dolphin                          1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           94869      G   /opt/google/chrome/chrome                 1MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           94918    C+G   ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192         76MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           97239      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
abdulrhman@localhost:~$ hostnamectl
Transient hostname: localhost
   Static hostname: (unset)                                             
         Icon name: computer-desktop
           Chassis: desktop đź–Ą
        Machine ID: 2ec004d98c744cdda9685b7819b42336
           Boot ID: b13b05569d0240ef9d0dbf10a0ff1be3
  Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed                          
       CPE OS Name: cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20260505:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
            Kernel: Linux 6.19.12-1-default
      Architecture: x86-64
   Hardware Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
    Hardware Model: B450 AORUS ELITE V2
  Hardware Version: x.x
  Firmware Version: F1
     Firmware Date: Fri 2020-08-14
      Firmware Age: 5y 8month 3w 1d                                     
abdulrhman@localhost:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
wayland
abdulrhman@localhost:~$ sudo cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset
[sudo] password for root: 
Y
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Which videos from where?
Can’t confirm your issues on any TW box.
Do you have any addblocker installed? Delay in starting a video is possible when using addblockers on youtube as example. Instead of the add a black screen appears.

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Regarding videos: It happens on YouTube, but also on any site with video content (e.g., Twitter/X or Facebook). It’s not an adblocker issue because the video playback hangs for 5 seconds with a black screen specifically when I resize the window or enter/exit fullscreen.

I have AdBlocker Ultimate, which is also present in Firefox, but without the issue.

  1. The Error Log: [ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc] vaQuerySurfaceAttributes failed, VA error: invalid parameter [ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc] FillProfileInfo_Locked failed for va_profile VAProfileH264Main
  2. Specific Workaround active in Native but NOT Flatpak: disable_rgb_to_yuv_conversion is applied in the native RPM.
  3. Command Line Flags: The native version is running with --render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128.
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Really? Providing an answer which was fabricated by AI which can be seen on the edit history of your post?

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I’m sorry about this I’m just trying to give you a clear info.

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What can I do to provide you with the full issue?

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I was trying to solve it with Gemini but with no avail, so I came here.

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@alkabeer2awy if you browse to chrome://gpu what info is present for “Graphics Feature Status”

I’m on GNOME but I see;

Graphics Feature Status
=======================
*   Canvas: Hardware accelerated
*   Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
*   Compositing: Hardware accelerated
*   Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
*   OpenGL: Enabled
*   Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
*   Raw Draw: Disabled
*   Skia Graphite: Disabled
*   TreesInViz: Disabled
*   Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
*   Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Vulkan: Enabled
*   WebGL: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGPU: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGPU interop: Hardware accelerated
*   WebNN: Disabled
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Here’s mine:

Graphics Feature Status
=======================
*   Canvas: Hardware accelerated
*   Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
*   Compositing: Hardware accelerated
*   Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
*   OpenGL: Enabled
*   Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
*   Raw Draw: Disabled
*   Skia Graphite: Disabled
*   TreesInViz: Disabled
*   Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
*   Video Encode: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
*   Vulkan: Enabled
*   WebGL: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGPU: Hardware accelerated
*   WebGPU interop: Hardware accelerated
*   WebNN: Disabled
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@alkabeer2awy I always add my user to the “video” and “render” groups as well…

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I tried:

sudo usermod -aG video,render $USER

The issue remains even after restarting the wayland session.

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I have a related problem. But I am not using Nvidia on this pc. I have an Intel 2000 gpu. To solve an nvidia problem on another pc, I would run a video (mp4) to clear a video “stutter.” After the update to the 7.01 kernel, this pc was getting artifacts like dark areas of the monitor changing to a shimmering blue and thin lines moving up and down the display. So, I have updated and rebooted a couple of times.

But now, playing an mp4 gives me audio but no video. Oddly, this happens only with videos I created on my cell phone but not ones created online. Previously, all videos played perfectly. So, maybe not an nvidia problem?

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I locked my kernel to 6.19.12-1 after seeing the black screen issue of the 7.01.

Actually, this issue is present with me from a long time ago.
I only noticed it now when I tried to move from chrome to Firefox and figured out that all videos run instantly not like Chrome.

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@alkabeer2awy then not really sure, I’m running the 595.71.05 driver on kernel 7.0.2, the GPU is a Quadro RTX 4000, so Turing based…

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Just a quick stop-in to comment. Been using Chrome for years, and only use those from Google channel (primarily use Stable, but sometimes use Beta and Unstable for curiosity).
The native Google repos based on:
==> dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64

(We also use the Brave browser, updating from their native repos too).

Anyway, (using Chrome) we have zero issues running any sort of videos, be it YouTube, videos published from our smartphones or other cameras to the 'Net, or other odd-ball “https” video URLs.

The one thing I noticed is your mention of NVIDIA. None of our machines use NVIDIA stuff :+1: Oh yea, we use Leap 15.6, not TW.

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@myswtest A mixture of Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0, Intel, Intel ARC and Nvidia all work fine with google-chrome. But I run GNOME on Wayland, have been for a long time…

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Thanks to everyone who tried to help.
I found that the issue was a certain extension in Chrome.

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