Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback in
both Firefox and Chromium browsers. The video starts to load, thumbnails
keep 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 homemade
videos 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


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On 07/12/2025 01:38, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback in
both Firefox and Chromium browsers.

What do you mean "once again"? Have you had this problem before? How did
you solve it then?

... and why upgrade to Bookworm? Trixie (Debian 13) is the current version.

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Cheers,
Daniel.

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Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> wrote:

On 07/12/2025 01:38, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:

Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback in
both Firefox and Chromium browsers.

What do you mean "once again"? Have you had this problem before?

It's been cropping up routinely, a day or so after updating the system.

How did you solve it then?

Simply continuing to update as updates were offered. Last time this
occurred the issue was resolved in a couple of weeks, IIRC.

... and why upgrade to Bookworm? Trixie (Debian 13) is the current version.

Bookworm is the established install on the host in question.

If there was reason to think upgrading to Trixie would help I'd try it,
but so far nobody has suggested that's the case. Bullseye seemed to work
pretty well, Bookworm somewhat less so. That trend isn't encouraging....

Far as I've seen, the _only_ problem has been with watching videos.
Otherwise the system is well-behaved.

Thanks for writing,

bob prohaska


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