Min: Can't play youtube videos

[neymarsabin]

I am using min browser in my Arch Linux. Everything seems to work fine but i cannot play youtube videos. Whenever i try to play one it gets stuck in the loading screen. And it gets stuck forever.

[code-hunger]

I think I had the same problem in qutebrowser which uses webkit, too, and the solution was to install some GStreamer plugins:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/30163950
I hope this will work for you, too.

[neymarsabin]

Thanks for the answer @code-hunger but that didn't help.

[aasutossh]

I got same problem. I didn't notice till I saw your issue.
(I don't use youtube much so.)

[hippylover]

After trying to recompile every damn lib electron and min depends upon i finally fixed it by downloading min from aur instead of repo and/or recompiling & installing http-parser. So it was 1 of those that fixed it.

[code-hunger]

@hippylover wouldn't it be easier to just git clone and npm install, in case the AUR package does not have the dependencies specified?
Not running arch right now so I can't check but this method should be distro-independent.

[neymarsabin]

Downloding min from AUR worked for me too...Thanks for the information @hippylover

[hippylover]

@code-hunger That might work, i wouldn't know. If you look at the PKGBUILD from aur, he just downloads the deb file from github and unpacks that.

[coreymwamba]

I have a smiliar issue. The page loads, but the video displays an error.
Here's a sample video's debug info:
{ "ns": "yt", "el": "detailpage", "cpn": "tY9C2d31dXvLWKwb", "docid": "DEUKM-n3dq8", "ver": 2, "cmt": "0", "plid": "AAVUgRybLIDutdRu", "ei": "hpVsWe3QMNCgWr7fgbgG", "fmt": "242", "fs": "0", "rt": "65.42", "of": "02cLPHQoDjwshX8aM1L68A", "euri": "", "lact": 2, "cl": "161729839", "mos": 0, "state": "c9", "vm": "CAMQABgB", "volume": 100, "c": "WEB", "cver": "1.20170712", "cplayer": "UNIPLAYER", "cbr": "Chrome", "cbrver": "53.0.2785.143", "cos": "X11", "hl": "en_GB", "cr": "GB", "len": "3253.961", "fexp": "9413138,9419451,9422596,9431012,9434289,9444442,9446364,9447922,9449243,9453897,9457141,9457285,9463594,9466593,9466793,9466795,9466797,9467217,9468797,9468799,9468805,9471161,9471430,9474357,9475003,9476492,9477080,9477460,9478685,9480475,9480535,9481734,9482647,9483356", "afmt": "251", "vct": "0.000", "vd": "NaN", "vpl": "", "vbu": "", "vpa": true, "vsk": false, "ven": false, "vpr": 1, "vrs": 0, "vns": 0, "vec": null, "vvol": 1, "debug_error": { "errorCode": "fmt.unplayable", "errorDetail": "mediaElem.1", "message": "An error has occurred. Please try again later.", "messageKey": "YTP_ERROR_GENERIC_WITHOUT_LINK" }, "ismb": 18940000, "relative_loudness": "-6.599", "optimal_format": "240p", "user_qual": "auto", "debug_videoId": "DEUKM-n3dq8", "0sz": false, "op": "", "yof": false, "dis": "", "gpu": "Mesa_DRI_Intel(R)_Ironlake_Mobile_", "cgr": true, "debug_playbackQuality": "small", "debug_date": "Mon Jul 17 2017 11:47:37 GMT+0100 (BST)" }

[PalmerAL]

@coreymwamba How did you install Min?

[coreymwamba]

@PalmerAL through the Arch Community repository (i.e. an official one).

[neymarsabin]

@coreymwamba installing from Arch User Repository solved my problem back then... I used yaourt. You should try it too.

[coreymwamba]

So - does this mean that the official package is incorrectly packaged? Because then that needs reporting.

[coreymwamba]

Now reported at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54869

[neymarsabin]

nice job @coreymwamba !! Do u still have the problem? or is it solved??

[coreymwamba]

@neymarsabin I installed from the AUR and it works. The size of the package was 155MB - over ten times the size of the community package (15MB) - so I think there is a packaging error in Arch's community repository.

[neymarsabin]

There might be one... @coreymwamba i think, size does not matter when you are getting the latest release.Glad that your problem was solved.

[wh75er]

Downloading min from AUR helped me
I didnt watch any videos from the internet cause of that standard package
Thank you for this issue

[neymarsabin]

Glad to be of help @wh75er

[anko]

I also have this problem, having downloaded the current master at e5963ec7c1dfe67be171fe7f7271617b8610aaa5 and built it myself according to the readme instructions.

How it looks:

$ uname --operating-system
GNU/Linux
$ node -v
v8.4.0
$ electron -v
v1.6.11

No errors in the console, except from Google ads being blocked.

[gerbensewuster]

Same problem and error message as anko.
Same electron version, and I installed from the AUR using yaourt.

[steve-1776]

Confirming here on Arch I just removed the Min from the official package and installed from AUR and numerous issues have cleared up, including youtube video playback, which now works.

[dbfreem]

Does anyone know if the playback issue still exist for Arch?

[KagamineP]

I think this outdated, so I close this now. Feel free to reopen.