Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again

bp · 2025-12-07T01:38:05+00:00

Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback inboth Firefox and Chromium browsers. The video starts to load, thumbnailskeep coming but the playback doesn't start and there's no sound. I've tested it on the New York Times, YouTube, Netflix and some homemadevideos that used to work. Now nothing plays, failing in the same way.If anybody's seen this or knows a fix, please post.Thanks for reading,bob prohaska

Dec 07, 2025 Last reply: 6 months ago 22 Replies

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Computer Nerd Kev 7 months ago

They go to the framebuffer console X is started from (Ctrl-Alt-F1), unless they were started from a terminal window. But those messages aren't sent to syslog by the GUI applications, maybe your systems have something extra which does that when GUI programs are started?

Syslog messages go nowhere if there's no syslog daemon running.

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Lawrence D’Oliveiro 6 months ago

I never said they were.

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candycanearter07 6 months ago

If you're willing to try another player, mpv can play youtube videos if yt-dlp is installed.

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