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#1 2018-03-17 06:03:56

thebongy
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Registered: 2018-03-17
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Only Firefox and Chrome play video, other browsers crash/don't play

The Problem

I have been recently trying to switch to a ligthwieght browser alternative from firefox and chrome because of my old PC. I have noticed that firefox and chrome are able to play HTML5 video and audio perfectly without any issues (without the flash plugin). But other browsers I tried like luakit and surf don't seem to play video at all. Surf and Luakit both are able to play audio files correctly as tested from this page . But on playing video surf just shows a black window or an emtpy frame with video controls only (No audio/video). On playing youtube videos particularly, I have seen that surf also rasies an xlib error (but doesn't crash):

Xlib: sequence lost (0x13fcd > 0x3fcf) in reply type 0x0!
What I have tried

Several pages on this forum and on other websites suggested installing gstreamer, ffmpeg2.8, gst-libav and the gst-plugins-* packages on the gstreamer arch wiki page. I have all these packages installed, but surf still fails to play video.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? I am open to providing any more information if required...

Last edited by thebongy (2018-03-17 06:05:34)

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