Youtube doesn't work with Chromium [SOLVED]

[nidhogg]

I updated Chromium today to 67.0.3396.62-1Since then, Youtube stopped working corerctly. I can enter the website, view the thumbnail videos when I hover them, but I can't play any of them. I get "An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: *****************) That happens with every video from any channel.
I checked it's not my computer's or IP's fault, because I can watch videos with Firefox corectly.
The debug info from Youytube says that something's wrong with the audio decoder. I'll keep on searching :

{   "ns": "yt",   "el": "detailpage",   "cpn": "oRet3ziVOuZUqs7u",   "docid": "vbwdEy0m6wI",   "ver": 2,   "referrer": "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcrSw79VCd4sSguy9D2HufQ/videos",   "cmt": "0",   "plid": "AAVtxMAxN9PGGktp",   "ei": "gHIUW6-ZNpqpxwKMkJegDQ",   "fmt": "242",   "fs": "0",   "rt": "448.176",   "of": "VR3AfXmqod4Mjj2bFgIXBw",   "euri": "",   "lact": 7,   "cl": "198379918",   "mos": 0,   "state": "c9",   "vm": "CAEQABgE",   "volume": 16,   "c": "WEB",   "cver": "2.20180525",   "cplayer": "UNIPLAYER",   "cbr": "Chrome",   "cbrver": "67.0.3396.62",   "cos": "X11",   "hl": "en_US",   "cr": "ES",   "len": "756.181",   "fexp": "23708904,23708906,23708910,23710476,23712544,23717917,23721698,23721752,23721898,23723618,23725261,23726564,23728274,23729689,23733185,23733751,23736483,23736738,23736809,23737531,23737673,23737720,23738445,23738491,23739466,23739764,23739983,23740493,23741227,23741719,23742058,23742655,23742970,23743486,23743669,23744165,23744176,23744392,9405988,9422596,9449243,9463583,9466592,9470250,9471235,9485000",   "feature": "c4-videos-u",   "afmt": "251",   "vct": "0.000",   "vd": "NaN",   "vpl": "",   "vbu": "",   "vpa": "1",   "vsk": "0",   "ven": "0",   "vpr": "1",   "vrs": "0",   "vns": "0",   "vec": "null",   "vvol": "0.16",   "debug_error": {     "errorCode": "fmt.unplayable",     "errorDetail": "mediaElem.1;msg.DECODER_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED: audio decoder initialization failed",     "message": "An error occurred. Please try again later.",     "messageKey": "YTP_ERROR_GENERIC_WITHOUT_LINK"   },   "ismb": 8190000,   "relative_loudness": "3.091",   "optimal_format": "360p",   "user_qual": "auto",   "debug_videoId": "vbwdEy0m6wI",   "0sz": false,   "op": "",   "yof": false,   "dis": "",   "cgr": true,   "debug_playbackQuality": "small",   "debug_date": "Mon Jun 04 2018 01:05:38 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)" }

[Kan]

I am having the same issue. 

[melmarker]

install chrome and be done with

[Kan]

  That is like saying, install Windows and be done with it.

[melmarker]

Ok, in that case you don't have any problems. Problem solved.

[drb]

Does that fit in with Benjamin Franklin's quotation?  (Only joking, I'm a pragmatist at times as well.)

[der_bud]

Debian Bug #900533 : chromium 67.0.3396.62-1 youtube video, gif's, html5, and movies no longer work

[nidhogg]

Debian Bug #900533 : chromium 67.0.3396.62-1 youtube video, gif's, html5, and movies no longer work

OK, thanks a lot for the info on the bug  It seems we'll have to wait or revert it to v66.

[DeepDayze]

Reverting to 66 fixes it but had to get the packages from Debian Snapshot as Testing had only version 62.

[dacorsa]

how can i revert to version 66?
apt install chromium /testing
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
E: File /testing non supportato passato sulla riga di comando
what command can i use??
thanks

[dibl]

You can install SRware Iron and you will have Chrome ver. 66.0.3450.0.  (It says 65 on the Linux download page, but it is actually 66.0.3450.0.)

[Kan]

Thank you! 

[Camelot]

how can i revert to version 66?
apt install chromium /testing

You can install Chromium 62 (testing)

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apt install chromium/testing
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '62.0.3202.89-1' (Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'chromium'
Selected version '62.0.3202.89-1' (Debian:testing [amd64]) for 'chromium-common' because of 'chromium'

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=chromium

[melmarker]

@Camelot: Erm, no, really no, no and no. No way - that would be the nearly dumbest move one can make. Please have a look at the changelog. After that please ask yourself some questions:
1. Wtf is testing 62.x
2. Why do newer versions never made it to testing?
3. Is chromium/unstabe in the current state really a good idea?

I'm not argueing against FOSS - i'm argue against versions of software with many CVEs open. So - never suggest or use testing when chromium breaks - use the latest working versions from snapshots. And check the changelog if even that downgrade could be considered as a really good idea.

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# apt changelog chromium

chromium-browser (67.0.3396.62-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream stable release.
    - CVE-2018-6123: Use after free in Blink. Reported by Looben Yang
    - CVE-2018-6124: Type confusion in Blink. Reported by Guang Gong
    - CVE-2018-6125: Overly permissive policy in WebUSB. Reported by Yubico
    - CVE-2018-6126: Heap buffer overflow in Skia. Reported by Ivan Fratric
    - CVE-2018-6127: Use after free in indexedDB. Reported by Looben Yang
    - CVE-2018-6128: uXSS in Chrome on iOS. Reported by Tomasz Bojarski
    - CVE-2018-6129: Out of bounds memory access in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie
      Silvanovich
    - CVE-2018-6130: Out of bounds memory access in WebRTC. Reported by Natalie
      Silvanovich
    - CVE-2018-6131: Incorrect mutability protection in WebAssembly. Reported
      by Natalie Silvanovich
    - CVE-2018-6132: Use of uninitialized memory in WebRTC. Reported by Ronald
      E. Crane
    - CVE-2018-6133: URL spoof in Omnibox. Reported by Khalil Zhani
    - CVE-2018-6134: Referrer Policy bypass in Blink. Reported by Jun Kokatsu
    - CVE-2018-6135: UI spoofing in Blink. Reported by Jasper Rebane
    - CVE-2018-6136: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Reported by Peter Wong
    - CVE-2018-6137: Leak of visited status of page in Blink. Reported by
      Michael Smith
    - CVE-2018-6138: Overly permissive policy in Extensions. Reported by
      François Lajeunesse-Robert
    - CVE-2018-6139: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API.
      Reported by Rob Wu
    - CVE-2018-6140: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API.
      Reported by Rob Wu
    - CVE-2018-6141: Heap buffer overflow in Skia. Reported by Yangkang
    - CVE-2018-6142: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Reported by Choongwoo
      Han
    - CVE-2018-6143: Out of bounds memory access in V8. Reported by Guang Gong
    - CVE-2018-6144: Out of bounds memory access in PDFium. Reported by pdknsk
    - CVE-2018-6145: Incorrect escaping of MathML in Blink. Reported by Masato
      Kinugawa
    - CVE-2018-6147: Password fields not taking advantage of OS protections in
      Views. Reported by Michail Pishchagin

-- Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>  Wed, 30 May 2018 13:03:02 +0000


[absolut]

bringing us back to the original idea/workaround of using google-chrome...