Nothing changed except an update to firefox, chromium, and brave-browser.
Everything functioned. Rebooted, and the problem began.
Regressed all three browsers (downgraded) and removed anything that may interfere (anything that may touch audio/video).
Playback works fine until any browser or browser based application is opened (such as discord, etc).
The most I could get for logs was by running Chromium via a terminal, getting vaapi_wrapper errors.
Vaapi should not be in use as far as I understand it, being an intel specific api.
This is a Ryzen/nNvidia based system.
This has mattered a lot in choice of video api being used in the past, but never had any issues like this - only ever had to select the optimal one for the specific non-standard use-case, but never saw a default that wasn’t compatible.
My best guess is webkit is messing with the video api being used by ffmpeg.
I do believe ffmpeg is what they are all relying on to do actual decode/encode, and is the one common link I can find between the browser based and local playback of media files.
Sadly, it is quite a big issue as it means video conferencing, and any sort of communications beyond text is a no-go.
Any assistance would be appreciated. I’ve searched for similar issues and come up dry so far.
Edit:
Running nVidia driver 5010.73.05
Kernel 5.17.0-1
No special configurations. Largely an out of the box install, with just a few GUI tweaks, but low-level stuff is standard.
FYI, I’m a long time participant in these forums, but for whatever reason since I was last here my account was deleted or detached from my email. It says first post, but it is not.