#f41 Video freezes and sound snippet repeats endlessly

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Since upgrading to f41 it happens sometimes that playing a video freezes and a short snippet of the sound is still audible which repeats endlessly. When this happens the display is in full screen mode. Unfortunately this is the only pattern I see.

There is no possibility to decrease screen and escape from this situation. Only a hard shut down helps.

I made a ahort video of this situation. Unfortunately I can’t upload it here.

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  • Date generated: 2024-12-02 10:33:38

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Framework Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840HS w/ Radeon™ 780M Graphics × 16
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ 780M
  • Disk Capacity: 500.1 GB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 03.03
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 47
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64
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Hello Karin,

Are you experiencing this with a specific application or with mutliple applications? I’m also using a Framework Laptop 16 with the KDE spin of Fedora 41, but haven’t seen that behavior (yet), though I mostly view videos in Firefox (either installed using the base OS package or as a Flatpak).

Thanks

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Hi Linh,

thanks for asking, actually it happens using firefox either youtube videos or TV mediathek.

Firefox is on 133.0. Could I somehow provide the protocol?

Thanks!

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Do you have any of the RPM Fusion packages installed that allow you to use hardware accelerated encoding and decoding?

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Also, what do you see under the Media section when you browse to about:support in Firefox? The image below is what I have using the Fedora-provided install of Firefox with the RPM Fusion packages to enable hardware acceleration.

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Yes, the RPM fusion packages are installed. And the media table looks identical:

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What else could I check?

Thank you!

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Have you tried a different browser to see if the problem happens there? You could even try installing and running the Flatpak version of Firefox.

Another option is to see if using an extension like h264ify or enhanced-h264ify to force YouTube to use a different format.

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The issue occured rather seldom. And not for a week today. Maybe the regular updates helped? I suggest to close this issue. Thanks for your time and help.

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It could have been one of the Mesa driver updates that came through recently that may have done the trick. Glad to hear that it hasn’t happened lately and hoping the issue doesn’t come back. Cheers!