Bug Report New update broke video playback from browser sources

[codemann8]

I have a browser source that used to play mp4 videos but with the new update, it freeze frames the first video frame and plays the sound. I tried refreshing the browser cache, didn't work. Can confirm nothing else changed and that the video does play if I open the URL in my other browser.

 

[codemann8]

This is still an issue! I've still been running on 23.2.1 since this was a show-stopper for me. I tried upgrading today to the latest and it still has not been fixed. I've tried the things mentioned in this post: https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...but-no-visuals-after-24-0.110784/#post-419758

Still no luck, unfortunately it seems I'll be stuck on v23.2.1 until this is resolved.

 

[codemann8]

Many others are having this issue:

Bug Report - [Browser Source] Video bug

Video playback in Browser Source is broken OBS 23.2.1 works well OBS 24.0 is broken OBS 24.0.1 broken OBS 24.0.2 broken OBS 24.0.3 broken Video Starts playing and freeze after a few seconds only audio continue this is tested with multiple video files form different sources also multiple...

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Question / Help - Problem with the browser source (version 24.0.3)

Hi everyone, I apologize for my bad English. I need to play autoplay videos with audio through the browser source and I've never had any problems doing it. Unfortunately, after updating to version 24.0.3 (64 bit) the videos go into autoplay only if they are muted (as happens in chrome)...

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Bug Report - Embebed browser freezed on <video> play

[[ Sorry for my horrible english ]] Hi, I'm web developer and I use OBS to stream coding examples using the embebbed Browser. Since version 24, when any page has a tag, the video freezes after 5 seconds (but the audio doesn't). This doesn't happens on OBS 22, so there might be related with...

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[Harold]

Where's your obs log from a 24.x version?

 

[codemann8]

It might be hard to believe, but mp4 is a valid format of video, to which I have no control over what format the site owner uses. I just provide the URL in the browser source.

And I've read all the linked posts. As mentioned earlier, I've tried all the recommended actions, neither of them solved the problem.

As for the log, it takes like 3 hours just to undo the install and reinstall all the plugins and config, and I've already reverted back to 23.2.1. If there is an update that seems promising to fix this, I can try it again and export the log before I revert back again.

 

[Harold]

Are you working using the streamelements plugin installed in the instance of OBS you're having the trouble in?

 

[codemann8]

I am not using that plugin, no

 

[Mango]

Quite by accident I found a workaround, but I don't know why it works.

document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(){
 var span = document.createElement("span");
 document.body.appendChild(span);
 $(span).fadeTo(99999999, 0.99);
 });

(Requires jQuery.)

I have been attempting to read through the jQuery code but do not yet understand why this solves the problem. Any suggestions?

 

[Mango]

It seems that the workaround has nothing to do with jQuery nor opacity. This also works:

window.setInterval(function() { document.body.style.marginBottom = Math.random() + "em" }, 10);