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> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1uHPibYXpuzGCfzoT5M%2BbowxhkU6W-kHmvdw3GbgRMKSQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <b50af4de-7e84-784f-044d-6bc29c249749@rawbw.com> <CAN6yY1uHPibYXpuzGCfzoT5M%2BbowxhkU6W-kHmvdw3GbgRMKSQ@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 PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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