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[GStreamer] YouTube videos start playing muted 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225857
Summary [GStreamer] YouTube videos start playing muted
Michael Catanzaro
Reported 2021-05-16 11:35:20 PDT
Since 2.32, YouTube videos now sometimes start playing muted unfortunately. This was partially fixed via bug #223195, but not completely fixed. When the bug occurs, it is now possible to fix by pausing the video and then playing it again. Since I cannot reproduce on demand, unfortunately I don't have GStreamer logs.
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Michael Catanzaro
Comment 1 2021-07-23 05:58:19 PDT
Still broken with the 21.08 runtime (including GStreamer 1.18)
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 2 2021-07-30 06:47:45 PDT
This also sometimes happens for videos on developer.apple.com, e.g. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10033/. But unfortunately I still don't have a reproducer.
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 3 2021-08-29 09:41:23 PDT
If we don't have time to investigate this soon, maybe a hack would work where we pause every video, then restart video playback? I know that sounds awful, but it would be a lot better than playing videos without sound.
Alice Mikhaylenko
Comment 4 2021-08-29 10:04:17 PDT
FTR I can't reproduce it anymore in either stable or canary. I think it was a pipewire issue really.
Philippe Normand
Comment 5 2021-08-30 02:46:19 PDT
(In reply to Alexander Mikhaylenko from comment #4) > FTR I can't reproduce it anymore in either stable or canary. > > I think it was a pipewire issue really. For the record, what's your OS and pipewire versions?
Alice Mikhaylenko
Comment 6 2021-08-30 02:50:53 PDT
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #5) > (In reply to Alexander Mikhaylenko from comment #4) > > For the record, what's your OS and pipewire versions? Fedora 34 pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-libs-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-alsa-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64 pipewire-utils-0.3.33-3.fc34.x86_64
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 7 2021-08-30 05:22:11 PDT
I hit this several times per day with Ephy Tech Preview on Fedora 34 with pipewire 0.3.33-3.fc34. It's not fixed.
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 8 2021-10-18 10:37:57 PDT
Anything we can do to help with this?
Philippe Normand
Comment 9 2021-10-18 11:17:12 PDT
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #8) > Anything we can do to help with this? Acquire human cloning technology
Philippe Normand
Comment 10 2021-10-23 05:51:00 PDT
I think it's a pipewire bug, filed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1738
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 11 2021-12-05 08:24:35 PST
With 2.35.1, I notice there is a roughly 50% chance that the video will become either muted or unmuted after performing a seek. I have to keep seeking sometimes several times in a row in order to get the sound to play again.
Philippe Normand
Comment 12 2022-02-13 07:49:36 PST
(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #10) > I think it's a pipewire bug, filed: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1738 This is closed ^ ^, so can we close this too?
Michael Catanzaro
Comment 13 2022-02-13 07:52:45 PST
Yes, it's been a few weeks since I last saw this bug, so I'm fairly confident it's fixed.
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