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From: bp@www.zefox.net
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Subject: Re: Browser video problems on Bookworm
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 23:14:35 -0000 (UTC)
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druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> On 16/05/2025 18:31, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
>> I just tried copying an old mp4 file that used to play in Chromium via
>> http to my local Pi5. The video has incidental sound. Played locally
>> with VLC the video runs, but silently.
>> 
>> Played locally with chromium, it does not run at all. Progress bar stuck
>> at zero.
> 
> Do you have any extensions installed which may affect video, such as 
> h264ify?
> 
The only manually added extension is ublock.origin. It wasn't causing
problems before the OS update. Turning off ublock.origin and h264ify
and restarting chromium made no difference. 

>> Not sure what to make of this behavior, but it does seem that chromium
>> fails worse than VLC.
> 
> Is Firefox any better?
>

Not really, it still doesn't play but does display the initial frame.
Turning off extensions (h264ify and ublock.origin) makes no difference. 

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska