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FS#26339 - Chromium fails to play HTML5 Video

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 15:24 GMT
Last edited by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 09 October 2011, 19:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Chromium fails to play HTML5 video from the Youtube HTML5 trial. When you try to watch an HTML5 video, the audio will play, but the page will not render, and the browser tab crashes shortly afterward. I've tested this with Google Chrome on other operating systems and this problem does not occur. Is it because the Archlinux Chromium isn't built with the right media codecs? The Youtube HTML5 uses Webm as the container format. The audio should be OGG Vorbis and the video should be VP8.

Additional info:

* chromium 14.0.835.202-1

Steps to reproduce:

* Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and click "Join the HTML5 trial".
* Watch an HTML5 youtube video, for instance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZvCqslpp6M.
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Closed by  Ionut Biru (wonder)
Sunday, 09 October 2011, 19:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 16:02 GMT
I use the same version of chromium and it works great here. No crashes and no strange rendering.
Chromium 14.0.835.202

Packages installed on my system with "chromium" in the name:
extra/chromium 14.0.835.202-1
aur/mozplugger-chromium 1.14.3-3
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 16:03 GMT
Removed mozplugger-chromium, and there are still no problems.
Have you tried installing codecs64 from aur?
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 16:04 GMT
Removed codecs64, and still no problems. I'm also on x86_64. Can't reproduce.
Comment by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 17:41 GMT
Huh, well for what its worth, this is the message I get when the error occurs.

(exe:4689): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[4630:4722:8805535422:ERROR:alsa_output.cc(712)] Failed querying delay: Input/output error
Comment by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Saturday, 08 October 2011, 17:52 GMT
Also, it doesn't seem to be a codec problem, cause I just went to http://erunways.com/html5/WebM_VP8_video/ and didn't have any problems. So maybe it's a problem with a javascript engine? I notice that a lot of javascript-heavy sites cause similar problems for me.
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 09 October 2011, 09:09 GMT
How is your network speed? I've experienced strange rendering with Chromium from time to time if there is too much network traffic.
Comment by Zhehao Mao (zhehao) - Sunday, 09 October 2011, 13:43 GMT
No network speed is fine. I think I've figured out the problem, it's an issue with the GPU acceleration. I turned on "GPU acceleration for all pages" in the about:flags menu and then no web page could load. I'm using the Nouveau driver on a GeForce 8400 GS GPU. Perhaps I should use the proprietary Nvidia driver instead?
Comment by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Sunday, 09 October 2011, 16:21 GMT
Glad you figured out what it was. Yes, I think it will work with the proprietary Nvidia driver. It's hard to tell if this is a chromium or nouveau bug, but my guess is that the required features just aren't implemented in nouveau yet.

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