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Jodi42

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From: India

Registered: 2025-06-09

Posts: 113

No video playback in chrome

I updated my Nvidia driver and I am guessing it is because of that, maybe, but video playback on chrome and chromium is no more there. all I see is white background in youtube videos and instagram videos. even on x and canva this is same. Most of the times I view youtube and there I a have seen this problem. I cannot go back to AUR driver 580xx as that is no more supported by ffmpeg.

uname -a
Linux Arch 7.2.8-arch1-2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:24:20 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nvidia-smi
Fri Oct  9 20:38:26 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 615.71.09              KMD Version: 615.71.09     CUDA UMD Version: 13.4     |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ...    On  |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   42C    P8             15W /   80W |     691MiB /   8192MiB |     17%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            1351      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                           340MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2619      G   ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192        253MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           18301      G   alacritty                                10MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I am using compositor picom and am on i3.

Last edited by Jodi42 (2026-10-09 15:10:03)

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 1,076

Re: No video playback in chrome

Did you tried other browsers, like Firefox or video players (vlc, mpv)?

What if you turn off hardware acceleration in chromium, just for test?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,232

Re: No video playback in chrome

Next to testing mpv,

I cannot go back to AUR driver 580xx as that is no more supported by ffmpeg.

mind to elaborate/reference the source for that?
ffmpeg will use vaapi or vdpau (or vulkan) and should rather not care about what implements that.

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