Bug 278397 – [GStreamer] Videos don't start playing properly on Epiphany (playsuisse.ch)

• Status: NEW
• Component: Media

[Julian]

Trying to play a video from playsuisse.ch on Epiphany doesn't work properly. The video starts playing after loading, but only the audio plays for the first few seconds.

Example link: https://www.playsuisse.ch/watch/1909600


This is a minor issue and playsuisse.ch requires an account and a Swiss IP address to test. Feel free to close it if the bug isn't possible to test or isn't important.

[Philippe Normand]

Is this another duplicate of bug 271229 ?

[Julian]

(In reply to Philippe Normand from comment #1)
> Is this another duplicate of bug 271229 ?

Not really, this is a different site, a different issue, and a different cause (in my opinion).

[Julian]

In the latest version of Epiphany (47.0) on Fedora 40 (Workstation), I can't play videos on rts.ch/play or playsuisse.ch at all anymore. Videos on srf.ch/play continue to play without any issues.

[Philippe Normand]

I can't test this (geo-blocked content), so please provide logs.
https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WebKitGTK%20and%20WPE%20WebKit/Multimedia.html#flatpak-apps

[Julian]

Created attachment 473501 [details]
logs

Here are logs. I had to sign in first, then I let the video play for 10 seconds. I had audio but no video.

[Philippe Normand]

There's an issue with timestamps, can you add va*:6,videodecoder:6 to GST_DEBUG and provide a new log file?

[Julian]

Created attachment 473502 [details]
logs with flag added

Here are the logs with the flag added

[Philippe Normand]

Adding Victor in CC, can you take a look?