[SOLVED] Youtube Video Playback Issue in Mint

byebyemrgates · 09-22-2018, 05:39 PM

Hi there, everyone!
Can anyone explain the reason for the video playback issue (Using Firefox on Linux Mint 18 ):
In youtube, message "if playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device"
Rebooting helps for a while, then the issue re-surfaces
After some research so far I have done this:
1. Disabled hardware acceleration in FF
2. In FF's about:config, made sure media.autoplay.enabledvalue is true
3. mint codecs installed
(Some forums suggest updating NVIDIA driver - should I and how can that be done in Mint?)
Cheers!

BW-userx · 09-22-2018, 06:25 PM

what is your hardware? RAM, CPU speed, type Video Card, because you should not have to reboot your system due to laggy video streaming of youtube unless you RAM is getting used up due to lack of enough of RAM, swap, /tmp space even. Internet speed too plays a part in it.

hemlocktree · 09-22-2018, 07:01 PM

do not know the reasons but i have seen numerous posts here and other places of people having issues with you tube videos and firefox. a number had gotten freezes after playing for a while.

i never liked firefox personally so i have always used chromium. never had any issues.

possibly you are running into the same issues some of these people have had. hope someone can help you.

maybe try another browser. good luck.

JeremyBoden · 09-22-2018, 07:01 PM

Leave the nvidia driver alone - unless it is actually known to be at fault.

Does it make any difference whether the video is windowed or played full-screen?

byebyemrgates · 09-23-2018, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

what is your hardware? RAM, CPU speed, type Video Card, because you should not have to reboot your system due to laggy video streaming of youtube unless you RAM is getting used up due to lack of enough of RAM, swap, /tmp space even. Internet speed too plays a part in it.

here it is

Code:

System:    Host: Lab1 Kernel: 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.28) Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3397
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: K01 v02.05 date: 05/07/2012
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-3770 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 27137
           clock speeds: max: 3900 MHz 1: 1596 MHz 2: 1596 MHz 3: 1596 MHz
           4: 1596 MHz 5: 1596 MHz 6: 1596 MHz 7: 1596 MHz 8: 1596 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Desktop
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel 7 Series/C210 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-34-generic
Network:   Card: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
           driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
           IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (13.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST500DM002 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 451G used: 55G (13%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.46GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 289 Uptime: 17:03 Memory: 2472.3/7851.7MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35

ondoho · 09-23-2018, 01:35 AM

youtube is telling you to reboot your computer? interesting, never seen that. sounds wrong to me.

do you have this issue with ALL video? only youtube, or other video sites also?
please be precise.

do you use flash plugin or html5? do you also have the issue when you use the other (youtube has a page where this can be forced)?

Shadow_7 · 09-23-2018, 03:34 AM

Fuzzy video on youtube is normally network related. Once the bandwidth drops below a threshold it lowers the bitrate. Try using a usb to ethernet dongle and see if the problem persists. I have an ethernet port on one of my HPs that just stops working after a period of usage. Never an issue with any of my usb dongles though.

JeremyBoden · 09-23-2018, 05:32 AM

That inxi output indicates a Gigabit wired connection.

What is your internet download speed according to a convenient speedtest?

Do you get the same problems for video downloads?

BW-userx · 09-23-2018, 08:39 AM

like ondoho pointed out, telling you to reboot due to slow video play back, I too never seen that on youtube or anywhere else.

I'd say you got a CPU that can deal with it, have you tired a different web browser to see if this issue is is browser dependent, or happening on whatever you try?

as others stated if your provider throttle down your data speed due to usage this too would make it slow down after you reach your max limit of unlimited data, fine print agreement most do.

byebyemrgates · 09-24-2018, 11:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

like ondoho pointed out, telling you to reboot due to slow video play back, I too never seen that on youtube or anywhere else.

I'd say you got a CPU that can deal with it, have you tired a different web browser to see if this issue is is browser dependent, or happening on whatever you try?

as others stated if your provider throttle down your data speed due to usage this too would make it slow down after you reach your max limit of unlimited data, fine print agreement most do.

Thanks everyone!
Internet speed 11 Mbps download
The problem occurs in both Firefox AND Chromium
AND - just realized that I can't playback Audion and Video files either!!
Can someone help?
Thanks!

BW-userx · 09-25-2018, 06:19 AM

I have not experienced this issue with firefox not playing videos in youtube in a long time. having to put that adobe plugin in, and what was the other one pepper something.

I'd check your codecs installed and plugins for web browsers and how it is setup to play HTML5 or ffmpeg, and/or by whatever means youtube is using to play videos now days.

what is Audion?

Quote:

Originally Posted by WikiPealYa

The Audion was an electronic detecting or amplifying vacuum tube invented by American electrical engineer Lee de Forest in 1906. It was the first triode, .

byebyemrgates · 09-25-2018, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

I have not experienced this issue with firefox not playing videos in youtube in a long time. having to put that adobe plugin in, and what was the other one pepper something.

I'd check your codecs installed and plugins for web browsers and how it is setup to play HTML5 or ffmpeg, and/or by whatever means youtube is using to play videos now days.

what is Audion?

Sorry, misspelled - Audio
Thanks for replying - as you can see, the picture is different than what I first thought.
At some point, (after about a year of using Mint with no issues) I noticed that I could not play a YouTube video in either Firefox or Chromium.
Then I realized that I can't play back ANY audio or video file. One video file worked in VLC, but with no sound.
If I reboot, the problem disappears but re-appears after a while.
What could it be?
I have codecs installed. And like I said, for months it was OK.
Could it be a recent upgrade? One thread suggested that the kernel can be an issue... https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=234177 My kernel is

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux Lab1 4.15.0-34-generic #37~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 28 10:44:06 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

It sadly reminds me of Windows - having to reboot...
Is there some kind of cache that gets filled up or something?...

BW-userx · 09-25-2018, 06:57 AM

I assume you are running current firefox, vlc, Chromium.

Sounds like you got a glitch in the system, a hick-up that requires debugging, running output into the terminal, or a file for going through and reading it later at your leisure to see if you can find the offending glitch.

seeings how it is three applications that are having this effect, then logic states it has to / should be the mechanism being used to decode your video that all three are using to do same. outside of reinstalling the entire system to see if that fixes it, ie apple fix all for iPhones. It is beyond my knowledge scope, I'd even have to google search to figure what to look at and out how to log it to see what error is it producing to then try to fix it. As far as your Kernel version, if you know how to switch Kernels, then start there.

Shadow_7 · 09-28-2018, 12:23 PM

Strange audio issue. Which I've had a few quirks myself. I have an RPi 3B+ running jackdbus and pulseaudio setup. Which got quirky after an update to raspbian. My current work around is to run pulse locally over the alsa loopback device (snd-aloop). With alsaloop to route the audio to the remote pulseaudio. You could try deleting pulseaudio's configuration files and see if the issue goes away. Or running specifically at 16 bit and 48 kHz which was pulseaudio's only supported format at it's inception. And the least likely to be problematic.

jackofdiamonds · 03-24-2020, 04:36 PM

I had the same problem. Videos weren't playing and Youtube was suggesting a reboot.

read out of

Code:

inxi -Fxz

Code:

System:
  Host: ASUSP6T Kernel: 5.3.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.4.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
  base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P6T v: Rev 1.xx serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: American Megatrends v: 1408 date: 09/21/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7 980 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem rev: 2 L2 cache: 12.0 MiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 80180 
  Speed: 1604 MHz min/max: 1600/3334 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1604 2: 1604 
  3: 1604 4: 1604 5: 1603 6: 1604 7: 1603 8: 1604 9: 1604 10: 1604 11: 1604 
  12: 1604 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: nvidia v: 390.116 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 02:00.1 
  Device-3: Midiman type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus ID: 3-1:4 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-42-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK M3A78 Series driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 
  bus ID: 06:00.0 
  IF: enp6s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR922X Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
  v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 08:01.0 
  IF: wlp8s1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: enp0s26f7u2 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-2: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 828.97 GiB (89.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100M size: 931.51 GiB 
  temp: 24 C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.89 GiB used: 828.97 GiB (90.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 20.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 35 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35% 
Info:
  Processes: 340 Uptime: 2d 9h 00m Memory: 11.69 GiB used: 4.66 GiB (39.9%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 
  inxi: 3.0.32

Here's what fixed it for me:

Code:

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras

No reboot required.