[SOLVED] Chromium + pepper = Video @ double speed

dcbdbis · 2013-12-27 20:01:34

I am using the latest stable chromium, with the pepper-stable package from the AUR recommended in the Chromium wiki.

I moved to Chromium as Flash is no longer being developed for Firefox....And Firefox 26 crashes a lot, and randomly, including with all plugins removed. So It's a problem right now.

As the subject mentions....I am getting weird video issues. Usually, the video plays back at double speed, with the associated spastic audio output. Here is an example: Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCQ2g9L7PU.

This used to play fine in Firefox with the old flashplugin.

In my porting process, here is what I did:

With no browser open:

a) "sudo pacman -Rs flashplugin"
a1) Verified that flash was no longer operating in Firefox.

b) "sudo pacman -S chromium"

c) "yaourt -S chromium-pepper-flash-stable"

d) In chromium: "chrome://plugins" to verify that flash wasn't showing up.

Arch x86_64 (current), NVidia GTX-660, using the nvidia drivers from Arch...extra. (rev 331.20) vdpau is installed in both the 64 and lib32 variants.

I have tried disabling hardware acceleration in the pepper-flash plugin, restarted the browser and retried. I have tried enabling hardware acceleration, restarted the browser and retried.
Playback seems unaffected in either scenario, and remains unusable.

Gnash has never performed properly for me in any scenario where I've tried it. So Gnash is not an option. Gnash has a long way to go until it is ready to be a good drop-in replacement for an official "flash plugin".

So for now, I have to use the smtube for smplayer to view YouTube/major news site videos properly.

I am requesting, please, some assistance in fixing my video playback issue in Chromium.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Dave

PS: I'm curious, why does the firefox community appear to be sitting on their hands when Adobe has made it clear for a long time that Adobe Flash for linux is being abandoned as of 01-JAN-2014? I would have expected some really heavy programming resources to be assigned to gnash to make it better, or write some sort of wrapper for the chromium pepper plugin....for official Adobe support.

Is there another reliable flash playback mechanism that I am missing all together?

Last edited by dcbdbis (2013-12-28 01:24:51)

ewaller · 2013-12-27 20:35:06

dcbdbis wrote:

PS: I'm curious, why does the firefox community appear to be sitting on their hands when Adobe has made it clear for a long time that Adobe Flash for linux is being abandoned as of 01-JAN-2014? I would have expected some really heavy programming resources to be assigned to gnash to make it better, or write some sort of wrapper for the chromium pepper plugin....for official Adobe support.

Is there another reliable flash playback mechanism that I am missing all together?

I think the hope is to leave Flash behind and banish it into history along with other bad ideas. HTML5 is the future.

dodo3773 · 2013-12-27 20:43:26

I agree with ewaller (the new html5 player for youtube is good) but to answer your question I had a similar issue with pepperflash and if I recall correctly it was related to sound issues. I do not remember which package solved the issue but here is the alsa / pulseaudio packages I have installed:

$ yaourt -Ss alsa | grep installed
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.27-2 [installed]
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2 [installed]
multilib/lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1 [installed]
multilib/lib32-alsa-plugins 1.0.27-1 [installed]
$ yaourt -Ss pulse | grep installed
extra/libao 1.1.0-3 [installed]
extra/libcanberra-pulse 0.30-4 [installed]
extra/libpulse 4.0-6 [installed]
extra/pavucontrol 2.0-2 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio 4.0-6 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2 [installed]
multilib/lib32-libpulse 4.0-6 [installed]

cpmielk · 2013-12-27 22:58:31

Mozilla has been working on a Firefox extension, Shumway. From their website (http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/):

Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance.

The source is on github, there is a demo site for playing with it and has landed in Firefox 27 nightly.

--Ed

dcbdbis · 2013-12-27 23:58:32

Thanks to all for the reply.....

I installed Shumway in Firefox, but like is stated on the website...it's a work in progress at the moment.

So back to the Chromium question...How do I get the video to play at the correct speed?

I validated line by line that I had the packages installed as mentioned...all of them....

Thanks!

Dave

Last edited by dcbdbis (2013-12-28 00:03:14)

Steef435 · 2013-12-28 00:10:56

What about using youtube-dl to watch youtube videos? You can also directly throw the url to mpv for streaming for example. And as mentioned earlier, the HTML5 version of YouTube is working quite fine too. There are some add-ons for firefox(and I guess for others too) that let all videos play using the HTML5 player.

dcbdbis · 2013-12-28 01:24:32

I am pleased to report success!

I dumped the pepper-flash plugin for Chromium, and added a pure HTML5 player as suggested....added a high rated html5 plugin for Firefox....and have spent the last 1/2 hour online browing some of my favorite videos with both browsers.

The playback issue is solved!

The only thing and it's so miniscule in comparison, is occassionaly I have to hit the refresh button to get rid of the adobe flash player nag.....but it works!

Thank you to all who assisted. I do apprecuate it!

Sincerely,

Dave

Arch Linux

#1 2013-12-27 20:01:34

[SOLVED] Chromium + pepper = Video @ double speed

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