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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:12:51 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <emulation@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: YouTube and other videos fail to play in VirtualBox VMs
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1uHPibYXpuzGCfzoT5M%2BbowxhkU6W-kHmvdw3GbgRMKSQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:37 AM Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:

> I tried FreeBSD 13 and Ubuntu-19 guests. Everything works except that
> youtube, vimeo and other video sites fail to play videos.
>
> They seem to struggle to load them, and videos keep freezing.
>
> I tried Firefox and Chromium - the same problem in both.
>
>
> How can that be? What could be a problem?
>
>
> Yuri
>

Just tried my Win7 guest on my 12-STABLE host and video played fine. I then
tried Mint and see the same issue you are. High CPU usage and the initial
frame of the video appears and then the spinner just keeps spinning,
seemingly forever, with no further frames displayed.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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