Youtube videos not playing

[rahul-thakoor]

I am able to play videos on vimeo but not on youtube. Could be related to h264 and VP8/9 decoding.

On chromium-browser running on Raspberry Pi, we had to use the h264ify extension to force YouTube to stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.

@psaavedra Is it possbile to do same in WPE?

[psaavedra]

AFAIK video playback is working for Y2u.

Balena Fleet:

• Balena Device type: Raspberry Pi 3
• Balena Device architecture : armv7hf

Device:

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi 4 AND Raspberry Pi 3
• Balena OS type: balenaOS
• Balena OS version: balenaOS 2.88.5+rev1 AND 2.83.21+rev1
• Device type: Raspberry Pi 3 AND Raspberry Pi 4 (using 64bit OS)

Balena:

• Balena WPE Fleet version: 2.1.0 - 8d7047d
• Balena Audio: 0.5.1
• Balena Browser WPE: 1.1.0 - ced0d69d2272052c57d7d857e43e66405ac79648
• Balena Weston: 1.0.0 - c1becf9994a722d428c6ffe90cc00d949bd7f322

Are you using a generating the images from local? is there any relevant local change?

[rahul-thakoor]

No, I'm using WPE 2.1.0 too. no local changes. I tried to play the video on the wpe but it doesn't load. no helpful logs too.

I'm using piDisplay though

[psaavedra]

The fleet, for what kind of target is created: rpi4 (64), rpi3, rpi3-64 ?

What shows the "architecture" field in the Balena Device architecture : armv7hf or aarch64?

[rahul-thakoor]

I'm targeting pi4, so the fleet is aarch64

[psaavedra]

Could you set 'Define device GPU memory in megabytes' (e.g.) to 256MB (>64MB) and try again?