Chromium 73.0.3683.75-1: can't watch youtube anymore

Nase · 2019-03-13 01:06:59

Hi,

basically, since the upgrade to chromium 73.0.3683.75-1, the youtube player just hangs. It doesn't play any videos anymore. Also, html5test.com will never finish loading.
Netflix works fine.

Do you guys have the same problems?

jasonwryan · 2019-03-13 01:24:28

Nase wrote:

Do you guys have the same problems?

No.

Please provide information: video card/driver, strace, etc...

Moving to NC.

Nase · 2019-03-14 02:01:14

Videos at 480p work, videos at 720p don't.

Processor is a 7700HQ, Xorg-X11 using modestting driver on Intel HD Graphics 630.

I will try to provide an strace.

miomio · 2019-03-14 02:20:36

Yes, I have an issue since upgrading to 73 but might be different if you are not using h264ify extension. I am also using the iHD driver (intel-media-driver). H264ify correctly switches from VP* format to MPEG4, but if I skip to any place this causes the video to fail.

To reproduce my issue start chromium from terminal so stderr is directed to terminal. Then open a video at Youtube. Skip to any place using the meter. Terminal output reports:

[30264:30264:0314/014148.929390:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(1169)] Failed syncing surface VA error: internal decoding error
[1:14:0314/014148.930241:ERROR:render_media_log.cc(30)] MediaEvent: MEDIA_ERROR_LOG_ENTRY {"error":"VDA Error 4"}
[1:14:0314/014148.930769:ERROR:render_media_log.cc(30)] MediaEvent: MEDIA_ERROR_LOG_ENTRY {"error":"video decode error"}
[1:1:0314/014148.940886:ERROR:render_media_log.cc(30)] MediaEvent: PIPELINE_ERROR PIPELINE_ERROR_DECODE

More info: https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/469

I didn't have this issue before upgrading to 73, despite being able to use hw acceleration for video decoding.

Nase · 2019-03-14 03:27:44

This is the output in a terminal. I'm not using intel-media-driver or h264ify. Also, I thought that standard chromium didn't have video acceleration on Linux.

[6344:6344:0314/042550.175487:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(364)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[6314:6314:0314/042550.919844:ERROR:display_info_provider.cc(195)] Not implemented reached in virtual void extensions::DisplayInfoProvider::UpdateDisplayUnitInfoForPlatform(const display::Display &, extensions::api::system_display::DisplayUnitInfo *)
[6314:6314:0314/042553.663619:ERROR:CONSOLE(6)] "Uncaught ReferenceError: gbar is not defined", source: [url]https://clients5.google.com/pagead/drt/dn/[/url] (6)

Last edited by Nase (2019-03-14 03:29:31)

olive · 2019-03-14 15:01:51

Recently, ArchLinux chromium was compiled with an unofficial patch to enable vaapi video hardware acceleration support. It is usually a good idea to have it enabled but can pose some problems. Could you type vainfo in a terminal to see if vaapi is available to your system? If vaapi gives you trouble, you can disable vaapi support for chromium. Type about:flags in the address bar and:

Hardware-accelerated video decode -> disabled
Hardware-accelerated mjpeg decode for captured frame -> disabled

If you want to debug vaapi, you will need to provide the exact graphic card and video module you use. You may try to test vaapi with a standalone player such as mpv or vlc.

Nase · 2019-03-14 16:52:47

Youtube videos are working fine on my PC at work (Haswell) but not on my XPS 9560 (Intel Core i7 7700HQ) and not on my XPS 9370. On both, I get the same error. I have libva-intel-driver installed. Maybe intel-media-driver works better. I will check and report.

Last edited by Nase (2019-03-15 00:40:56)

Nase · 2019-03-14 16:57:35

intel-media-driver doesn't work either. I started chromium with "LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD chromium" in a terminal, and it failed with the same errors as I posted above.
When uninstall libva-intel-driver, which effectively disables vaapi, youtube also works.

Nase · 2019-03-15 00:39:42

Disabling hardware video decoding in about:flags also fixes the issue.

Nase · 2019-03-15 00:40:30

Are you sure that the vaapi support for Chromium is ready? This is pretty much a show-stopper.

seth · 2019-03-15 07:26:11

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244031

olive · 2019-03-15 08:51:59

Chromium has the habit to ignore (reset) all environment variables for "security reasons". I am not sure that the variable LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME is taken into consideration (look at /proc/<pid of chromium>/environ to be sure.

As mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ch … celeration, hardware video acceleration is not present in the official chrome but a patch exists that enable it and Arch now apply it. I think hardware video acceleration is enabled in Chromeos (for the Chromebook) since Chromeos is based on Linux and the code base is the same, a relatively simple patch can enable it for Linux too. It works for many (most) people but this is still experimental. Whether it was a good idea to apply this patch in Arch will undoubtedly degenerate into a flame war...

cortexalf · 2019-04-30 16:51:16

Hi, I also experience same issue and also using intel HD 630. This problem occurs when using LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=iHD, but working fine when using LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965

Arch Linux

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