Subj : Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again
To   : bp
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Dec 08 2025 08:59:12

  Re: Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos again
  By: bp to All on Mon Dec 08 2025 10:00:01

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

I have no idea if this is related or not, but I sometimes have problems with 
the sound disappearing, and IIRC this started with the Bookworm upgrade a 
couple of yrs back.  It isn't just raspbian but happens in the parent OS also.

Rebooting, and making sure the HDMI monitor is plugged in and turned on, 
usually fixes it -- even if the monitor was on the first time!

IMHO rasp/debian has developed some issue where it has trouble sensing the 
state of the HDMI monitor and, if it gets it wrong it does weird things. 

If your monitor isn't HDMI then it could be a completely different issue but I
thought I would mention it just in case it was helpful.
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