Youtube "resets" and changes quality when go into full screen

[Red Squirrel]

This is not exactly Mint related but it happens in Mint only, I don't have this issue in Windows, so I wonder if maybe someone else has experienced this and has a fix.

Basically for some videos (seems to depend on the actual youtube channel itself, maybe because of the way they encode their own videos) when I start watching and then go in full screen mode, it will play for a bit then do this weird reset thing, where the screen goes black and I get the spinny thing and it stops playing the video, then when it starts again, it will be downgraded to a low resolution. I have a 4k screen but only playing in HD as for some reason 4k videos seem to lag too much for me despite having a decent GPU.

I've tried different things, like going in full screen before I start watching, or pausing the video before going in full screen, but no matter what it seems to always do it, it's super annoying. Is there a fix for this? I have a fibre optic 20meg connection so I doubt it's my internet.

[dave8671]

Did you run the driver manager to see if there was driver for the GPU? what is the brand model of the computer?

[motoryzen]

when I start watching and then go in full screen mode, it will play for a bit then do this weird reset thing, where the screen goes black and I get the spinny thing and it stops playing the video, then when it starts again, it will be downgraded to a low resolution

Red Squirrel, if the gpu driver or gpu-involvement turns out not to be the core issue, I wonder if you're doing this on an internet speed that is slower than 40 Mbps AND ( key word there and) you have the Network connection type you're using in that Linux Mint PC set to metered.

The reason I mention this relates to my 2016 android phone watching youtube content ( doesn't matter if it's via Firefox or the official Youtube app) on my Data internet only. IF I start it at 720p resolution...often it will do the exact same thing but the pausing and going black is almost instantaneous and the resolution has then been downgraded to either 240p or 360p if I'm lucky

Also please post your inxi -Fxxxrz results via the Terminal command window into the </> ( fifth button from the left just above the message window. Select that button first, then Paste that command's results please)

[Red Squirrel]

PC is self built, here is info:

I think my GPU is the 580 but I'm not 100% sure I don't recall for sure.

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$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-70-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B350-PLUS v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5407 date: 12/31/2019 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 1300X bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 
  rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 27945 
  Speed: 1547 MHz min/max: 1550/3500 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1547 2: 1546 3: 1547 4: 1547 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:67df 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.35.0 
  5.4.0-70-generic LLVM 11.0.0) 
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 07:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aaf0 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-70-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 342.81 GiB used: 165.25 GiB (48.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: M4-CT128M4SSD2 size: 119.24 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0309 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37240G size: 223.57 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 71E0 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 116.38 GiB used: 14.56 GiB (12.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 45 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1090 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/audio-recorder-ppa-focal.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/audio-recorder/ppa/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 305 Uptime: 32d 16h 46m Memory: 15.63 GiB 
  used: 6.29 GiB (40.2%) Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: 
  gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 8/9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.38 

[karlchen]

<mod< wbravin's issue report, which is not the same, can be found here: viewtopic.php?p=2025453#p2025453 </mod>