Subj : Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again
To   : All
From : Daniel James
Date : Sun Dec 07 2025 23:41:01

On 07/12/2025 15:49, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> If there was reason to think upgrading to Trixie would help I'd try it,
> but so far nobody has suggested that's the case. Bullseye seemed to work
> pretty well, Bookworm somewhat less so. That trend isn't encouraging....

No, I don't think there's any particular reason to prefer Trixie over 
Bookworm if Bookworm works for you. Support for Debian "oldstable" is 
usually pretty good from Debian (though I think the Raspberry Pi people 
tend to concentrate on "stable", which would be Trixie at present).

Some third-party software works well with the RaspiOS that is current 
when it is released, and may only slowly (if ever) be updated for newer 
releases -- I'm thinking of support for some of Pimoroni's devices.

OTOH things like the Pi camera software is intended for "stable", and 
newer features/cameras may not work at all with older distros.

> Far as I've seen, the _only_ problem has been with watching  videos.
> Otherwise the system is well-behaved.

I'm not aware of any major differences in video support between distros. 
There IS a difference in hardware video support between Pi4 and Pi5 (I 
forget the details ... Pi4 has support for H.264 (and H.265?) but Pi5 - 
being much faster - expects you to do it in software? Something like 
that.). Of course, with a Pi5 you need a release that supports the Pi5, 
and I think Bookworm is the minimum.

-- 
Cheers,
  Daniel.

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