Youtube/Video Problem

[Qubr]

I have a fresh install of qubes 3.2 and I cannot get Youtube videos to play in any browser (firefox or chrome). I can see the video loading and I can skip to different parts and see the frame at that point, but it refuses to play.

My issue is pretty much exactly the same as the issue here: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2374 except I have different hardware. If it helps, I have a Radeon HD7950 GPU and I can see the radeon kernel module is loaded. Other than this issue, everything else has been smooth so far.

[cooloutac]

On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 4:39:59 PM UTC-4, Qubr wrote:
> I have a fresh install of qubes 3.2 and I cannot get Youtube videos to play in any browser (firefox or chrome). I can see the video loading and I can skip to different parts and see the frame at that point, but it refuses to play.
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> My issue is pretty much exactly the same as the issue here: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2374 except I have different hardware. If it helps, I have a Radeon HD7950 GPU and I can see the radeon kernel module is loaded. Other than this issue, everything else has been smooth so far.

issure is in both debian and fedora template based appvms? Do other websites play videos? Can you play video at all like in media player like vlc? Disable flash if enabled.

[Qubr]

I've tried on Debian 8 and Fedora 23, then upgraded to Fedora 24 and still no dice. I tried Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion in Firefox and Chrome. All of them play ony 1 or 2 frames then the video stops. Same as before, I am able to skip to different parts of the video but never play.

I was able to play a local video in vlc on both Debian and Fedora without a problem. And flash is not enabled. I thought maybe I was missing some libs, but I would think installing vlc would have brought everything in that I needed.

[cooloutac]

On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 12:33:18 AM UTC-4, Qubr wrote:
> I've tried on Debian 8 and Fedora 23, then upgraded to Fedora 24 and still no dice. I tried Youtube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion in Firefox and Chrome. All of them play ony 1 or 2 frames then the video stops. Same as before, I am able to skip to different parts of the video but never play.
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> I was able to play a local video in vlc on both Debian and Fedora without a problem. And flash is not enabled. I thought maybe I was missing some libs, but I would think installing vlc would have brought everything in that I needed.

what if you try that html only youtube extension and see if that works for the hell of it, even though you have flash disabled and it should be doing that in the browser, worth a shot.

[cooloutac]

there is also vlc plugin for firefox browser. vlc uses its own codecs don't think it installs anything for systemwide. You have to install gstreamer packages for that. Although you shouldn't need to to for youtube, but i had to install gstreamer1-libav to play mp4 streams, maybe installing some codecs would help you also even though you shouldn't have to.

This happens in all vms?

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

On 05/07/2017 07:07 PM, cooloutac wrote:
> there is also vlc plugin for firefox browser. vlc uses its own codecs
> don't think it installs anything for systemwide. You have to install
> gstreamer packages for that. Although you shouldn't need to to for
> youtube, but i had to install gstreamer1-libav to play mp4 streams,
> maybe installing some codecs would help you also even though you
> shouldn't have to.
> This happens in all vms?

This has to be an unrelated-to-codecs problem, because YouTube knows to
serve HTML video + WebM to YouTube.

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Rudd-O
http://rudd-o.com/

[cooloutac]

yes but the youtube html plugin is worth a shot. I don't know what he'd do for other sites though.

on another note I can't stream my usual sites either cause I have to install mp3 and mp4 codecs on this fresh install. ugh.