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wbravin
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

Post by wbravin »

sorry to say

I spoke too soon.

when i inserted the USB it worked

I rebooted the laptop and removed the usb.
I tried to open youtube in google and it worked I would too using firefox

I rebooted the laptop once again and behold it does not work using google or firefox
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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wbravin wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:44 pmwhen i inserted the USB it worked
OK, so we know at least that with the default Mint ISO (that you put on a USB stick), it works. So it's not the hardware or Mint itself.

You can also start the System Reports via the start Menu, then go to System Information. Both when running from USB and when running from SSD.

I'd guess that these entries below are not present when it works, and that they are present when it does not work:

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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Thank you for your reply

I really do not know what is happening

Since my previous post (where it did not work) i rebooted several times to no avail. I had diner and came back I rebooted the pc again ...and it worked. during the same session i tried another video on youtube and it did not work. I rebooted again and a video worked tried a second no joy.

I rebooted once again and now it works. i tried a second video it worked i tried a 3rd reboot and again it worked

It is not the the network connection because all my other pcs(windows Based) worked
its not the laptop because it works fine


I did not see videos from youtube or celluloid or from kodi

Now all works for the moment

go figure im stumped
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Thus booting from Live environment and confirming Youtube works..confirmed that there was some setting or updated item..somewhere that is causing the issue sometime after LM installation.

** If *** you cannot find the source of the problem and cannot "undo" what caused the problem, as well as trying to reinstall chrome and/or firefox..doesn't solve it either..then only two options remain:

1. Timeshift restoration to a previous time you knew Youtube just worked
2. Reinstalling LM from scratch.

Beyond that, I have no idea.
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Thank you for taking the time to reply


At this time this morning It is still working. I really do not know what gremlins are in there.

Unfortunately i did not get around to setting up timeshift yet.

although my installation is completed my configuration is not.

To complete the configuration i need to:
1 - automate the mounting of my nas folders
2 - and completing configuring my backup solution (using timeshift or rsync)
3 - complete configuring home assistant


from the sound of it I may need to re-install LM prior to completer the configuration of HA for insurance

once again

thank you folks for all all your help
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Hello all

Over the weekend I formatted the drive and re -installed Linux mint. By saturday night i had everything installed and configured. This means
Linux mint 20.4
google chrome
docker
home assistant supervised and all worked well.
At this point i did a backup of my configuration

Videos (from youtube and kodi) worked perfectly

Come sunday morning all still was working fine. I looked at youtube videos to learn how to configure mint, home assistant and duckdns

at 13:00 i had enough and i let all thing be

Come sunday night and all the videos do not work again.

I reinstalled google chrome (to no avail) I installed chromium from the library (to no avail) i inserted the original usb and from the usb i can see the youtube videos

However when i go back to the pc installed mint they do not work

There must be a compatibility issue that creeps up based on the time the pc is on

what else can i do?

thank you all
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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wbravin wrote: Mon Aug 02, 2021 5:22 amwhat else can i do?
Do not install anything special after the Mint installation. No Chrome, no Docker, no Home Assistant. Then run the system for a few days and see whether you get problems. If you don't get problems, add the other applications one by one, not all at once, and test for a few days each time. That way, you can narrow down the problem.
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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thank you for your suggestion will try
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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This means
Linux mint 20.4
:lol: :D There is no such thing as 20.4...20.3 is in "production" and isn't even launched as beta yet :P

I get it..you had your mind on how Ubuntu names their versions ( 20.04, 21.04)
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Hello all

update

since Monday Aug. 1st i reinstalled several times LM. Monday night i had a vanilla install and all worked fine, Then I added chrome from the repository ...still fine
I install geary pulse audio asla tools and sticky.... all is good

On Wednesday i installed docker.io at this point still no issues sound an videos played in FF and chrome.

On thursday i installed home assistant supervised (in docker) during this process i had to re-boot the laptop several times In the morning once HA was installed all was fine. I continued to configure HA by adding vera, z-wave, openweathermap, and visual studio code. all was working fine at 11 .

at 17Hr i went back to the laptop and tried to play a video.. The video played but had no sound. I go to sound setting and i see that i have a dummy sound source. So i installed pulse audio i rebooted the laptop and i got the logon jingle. grate so i play a youtube video no joy. I reboot the laptop The video plays but no sound.
i rebooted the laptop

I get sound but now videos do not play. It has been like this since yesterday
nothing to do with LM installation
nothing to do with chrome or geary addons
nothing to do with docker.io installation

HA should have nothing to do with it A) it does not touch sound or video drivers

please what do i do

thank you in advance for your patience and your help
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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wbravin wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:41 amplease what do i do
So you did not wait several days in each phase to see whether it somehow breaks by itself. That's why it's still possible that one of the additional packages causes the problem, and you are back to square one.
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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Hi

I played with youtube for several hours after each install, rebooted the laptop and played some more with it and all was stable. So I thought since this was all working well id move on to the next install.

Because of who i am i create my own problems

since yesterday HA is working well (for what i need it) however Youtube was not so i tinkered with it and it worked but now i have no sound. In fact i have been searching all morning wo why.

At the moment LM is not loading the sound driver. I reinstalled pulse and alsa to not avail. As i writing this I an downloading from LM website the latest version of the OS.

The good part is that during last week I documented the process and steps to install LM Install and configure geary, google chrome and samba

This is what i am going to do tomorrow (re-installing everything


Thank you for your support it is greatly appriciated
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Re: LM 20.1 cannot play youtube videos, neither in Firefox, nor in Chrome

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wbravin wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 9:38 amThis is what i am going to do tomorrow (re-installing everything
You will not get a different result. Since you are not willing to let it run several days in each phase, you won't be able to narrow down the problem, either. Sorry, I'm out.
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