Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

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Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by biddybangbiddybom » 2018-01-22, 02:49

Hello, a few days ago I started having this issue: When watching a .webm file on my browser it will often freeze for some seconds and then jump 2 or 3 seconds. This happens with some webms and at different times, theres no set rules. I had a webm freeze for 10 seconds, others for 2, and so forth.

Here's for example a webm that freezes 2 seconds in
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1516542489808.webm

I've uninstalled and made a clean installion of Flash player (idk if that works), uninstalled Java, tried PM in safe mode, updated to the latest PM version (27.7.1) but it still happens. This is the only browser this happens in. Please help me out! and
I am running win7 64-bit.
Thanks a lot in advance.
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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-01-22, 13:56

The example video linked plays just fine for me in Pale Moon 27.7.1-x86 on Win7 x64.
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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by biddybangbiddybom » 2018-01-22, 16:05

hmm So you reckon it could be something to do with the software in charge of managing webm files?

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by Night Wing » 2018-01-22, 21:47

FWIW.

I also have no problems playing the video in the test link using 64 bit linux Pale Moon 27.7.1 running in 64 bit linux Mint 18.3 (Sylvia) Xfce.
Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia) Xfce w/ Linux Pale Moon, Linux Waterfox, Linux SeaLion, Linux Firefox
MX Linux 23.2 (Libretto) Xfce w/ Linux Pale Moon, Linux Waterfox, Linux SeaLion, Linux Firefox
Linux Debian 12.5 (Bookworm) Xfce w/ Linux Pale Moon, Linux Waterfox, Linux SeaLion, Linux Firefox

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by biddybangbiddybom » 2018-01-23, 17:28

Oh well :? :thumbdown: :?

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-01-24, 19:03

biddybangbiddybom wrote:hmm So you reckon it could be something to do with the software in charge of managing webm files?
Difficult to tell what might be causing your issues - if it's just the video freezing up, it may be a video codec problem of a video driver problem. If you problems started at a specific point in time then you should think about whether you made changes to your system right before then (e.g. video driver update, any software installations or changes, etc.)
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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by own3mall » 2018-02-08, 06:08

I have the same issue in Pale Moon 27.7.2 (32-bit) on all of my machines (2 Windows 7 x64 computers).

Check it out:

https://gfycat.com/TalkativeArtisticKomododragon

Works fine in Firefox and Chrome.

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by Fedor2 » 2018-02-08, 12:20

First link 404 not found, but the lust are itself, such recorded, not suitable for testing.

This problem with video exists indeed, and depends on OS, in windowses it is good, but in other may be not.

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by badnick » 2018-02-08, 14:46

First video also 404 not found and I have the same problem with the second video=freezing for about 2 seconds. I tested also on PM unstable 27.8.0a1/64 / clean profile and the problem persist - periodically freezes for about 2 seconds.
(WIN 10/64 - PM 27.7.2/64)
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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by moonie » 2018-02-08, 14:49

A cursory skimming makes me want to comment that these aren't necessarily browser-related issues.

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Re: Webm freeze while playing (audio advances)

Unread post by own3mall » 2018-02-24, 19:44

moonie wrote:A cursory skimming makes me want to comment that these aren't necessarily browser-related issues.
Except for it is a browser issue since this video plays fine in all browsers but Pale Moon:

https://gfycat.com/TalkativeArtisticKomododragon