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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:14:58 -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:  <CAN6yY1vCsT1gGUvZbYo1VQgoZh7Jzj_Ps6f-MXi2unco46bg8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:12 PM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Forgot to add that local MP4 video plays fine with mpv on the Mint guest.
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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