Bug 257089 – [GStreamer] Youtube broken on NVidia GPU

• Component: Media
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[tarch1]

Hi,
I'm running Epiphany browser that works very great in most sites but it will become unusable with youtube, that have working audio but doesn't reproduce video, it instead shows only a white window and when in fullscreen a black one.
I have a laptop with i5-11400H and RTX 3060
The system is Artix, linux kernel 6.3.2, with gnome-shell and gnome relative packages, and by following the Arch wiki I've installed all the Gstreamer plugins.
Whit a video it uses 300 MB and webkitwebprocess uses 750 MB, measured with bpytop.
App version: epiphany 44.2 - webkitgtk-6.0 2.40.1 - webkit2gtk-4.1 2.40.1 - mutter 44.1 - gnome-shell 44.1

[tarch1]

*** Bug 257088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Philippe Normand]

Can you follow the instructions and upload logs please?

https://github.com/Igalia/meta-webkit/wiki/Providing-useful-GStreamer-Zero-copy-issue-reports#in-webkit

[tarch1]

Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: FX706HM
CPU : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz
Operating System Version: "Artix Linux"
Kernel : Linux 6.3.2-artix1-1
Video Card: nVidia RTX 3060
Driver : nvidia 530.41.03-11 - nvidia-prime 1.0-4 - nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1
Driver: Intel Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.0.3
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Audio device: Realtek ALC256
RAM: 15721 Mb

gst-inspect-1.0 version 1.22.2
GStreamer 1.22.2
GST packages : clutter-gst gnome-video-effects gst-editing-services gst-libav gst-plugin-gtk gst-plugin-pipewire gst-plugins-bad gst-plugins-bad-libs gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-base-libs gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-openh264 gstreamer-vaapi gupnp-dlna rygel totem

Using  gst-play-1.0 --videosink glimagesink /path/to/video.mp4 with a random video use 2% of CPU and run smoothly

[Philippe Normand]

Did you read the "In WebKit" section of the wiki page?

[tarch1]

I took some info from steam to make it quick
With this command I can't produce any log file in /tmp :
GST_DEBUG="3,webkit*:6" GST_DEBUG_FILE=/tmp/gst.log GST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR=/tmp epiphany "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUlC8ue8NFI"

instead in terminal output I have 
(epiphany:12205): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:23:33.323: GtkWindowControls 0x55c27fc62d20 (windowcontrols) reported min width -166, but sizes must be >= 0

(epiphany:12205): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:23:33.325: GtkWindowControls 0x55c27fcc96f0 (windowcontrols) reported min width -166, but sizes must be >= 0

(epiphany:12205): epiphany-WARNING **: 21:23:35.384: Web process crashed

sorry for late

[Philippe Normand]

This seems fixed in 2.46.1. Closing.