On 3/26/23, Juan R.D. Silva <juan.r.d.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Debian Bullseye here up to date. Browsers installed: Firefox, Opera, > Vivaldi, and Google Chrome. > > I'm having a weird problem streaming movies from archive.org. The movies > are lagging & keep buffering in all browsers but Google Chrome. Google > Chrome streams same movies at the same time without any stuttering. > > So far I've notices it using on archive.org only, so I'm not sure if the > problem is on my side or on archive.org. The problem is rather recent > but persistent and in last days get really bad.
At first, I just came in to say, "Yeah, me, too." It's with CSI (Las Vegas style) on pluto(dot)tv. Since I background that as a mood enhancer, I pretty much don't notice. When viewed, it seems to somehow aesthetically fit that series. Pinterest website has been doing weird things, too. Last few days I'm lucky if a fifth of each of their webpages loads. If I want to view the videos they're pushing, I have to copy and paste over to Google Chrome. Pinterest then pretty much runs seamlessly on that, too. Since you've tested several other web browsers, I wonder if they're all using something similar, thus similarly buggy, as a building block in their projects. Important to note is mine is straight from Mozilla's website. I can't remember what was buggy, but that's always the reason I go straight to them out of exasperation. Next it came to mind to think maybe there's a setting buried within each browser's preferences. And so I checked Firefox. There's a picture-in-picture option that I just toggled OFF. Just rebooted because something was odd with RAM (2.5GB still in use) after all program were closed. That step-by-step download buffering effect isn't showing on Firefox now, at least in my case, I suppose it could be about multiple copies somehow conflicting.. or something along those lines, anyway. Time will tell if it's about something else should the buffering effect start up again. Instead of wading through installing Opera and Vivaldi, I hit up a search engine. Both browsers can be found offering tips on how to set their own picture-in-picture offerings. Google Chrome has it, too, but it was hard to find. Mine's under chrome://flags (per the Internet) then search for picture-in-picture. It's set at default then also offers enabled and disabled. I can't tell which mine is set at, and I'm not up for experimenting. Experiments is coincidentally a word you'll see if you visit that address. One last thought is I read somewhere that ISPs, especially smaller ones, have been caught throttling users based on type of usage even though the same ISPs label their services as unlimited. Conspiracy theories tossed aside, that's still a rational possibility that needs pursued on my end here. BUT THEN... Google Chrome does work properly. That's why I haven't wasted any time nor brain storage on actively investigating local ISP throttling as a most likely answer. :) For whatever it's worth in their parts as players, I'm using: * Sid identifying itself to hardinfo as Debian 12 Bookworm * Kernel 6.1.20-1 (2023-03-19) x86_64 * AMD A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics * pavucontrol to toggle sounds on LXQt desktop * 16GB RAM that Firefox REGULARLY eats alive thus triggering ongoing restarts * Zero SWAP in use with 8GB unmounted on standby if needed * 2.56 GHz quad core that seems to never change from 2500 according to hardinfo. In the past, other laptops have fluctuated all over their respective ranges. Probably overkill in sharing, but you never know what ultimately might be a causative. Cindy :) Update: Pinterest is still not working. PlutoTV's CSI is still running much more smoothly a couple of hours after toggling picture-in-picture off, BUT I think I'm starting to see a small hint of buffering coming back. "free -m" shows RAM at 7.4GB available. It will be a couple hours before that gets eaten up. When it does, that will help show how much of an effect memory has in my instance of this. Notable: Back over at Firefox again: Under its Settings > Privacy & Security, I accidentally found the following likewise toggled ON: Firefox Data Collection and Use * Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla * Allow Firefox to make personalized extension recommendations * Allow Firefox to install and run studies * Allow Firefox to send backlogged crash reports on your behalf Included for whatever it's worth since the topic of browsers' negative effect on computer memory seems to come up enough to be considered a thing... that would help make it a suspect in this buffering question. -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
