youtube audio skips at the start

[rajinder-yadav]

Description

When I play youtube video, parts of the audio at the start is skipped, maybe a few words when someone is speaking.

Steps to Reproduce

1. open youtube
2. click play on a video

Actual result:

audio skip on start

Expected result:

audio plays from the start

Reproduces how often:

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.23.73 Chromium: 90.0.4430.85 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	5bc145d831c180d9ff94f29a0d7a2e1cbd30ef36-refs/branch-heads/4430@{#1311}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 9.0.257.19
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.85 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=WebUIDarkMode,DnsOverHttps,LegacyTLSEnforced,AutoupgradeMixedContent,SafetyTip,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity --disable-features=AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,AutofillServerCommunication,TextFragmentAnchor,WebOTP,NotificationTriggers,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,LangClientHintHeader,BraveDomainBlock,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,TabHoverCards,DirectSockets,SharingQRCodeGenerator,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,IdleDetection,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtectionMessageInInterstitials --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave
Profile Path	/home/yadav/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Variations	7146a73c-3f4a17df

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? no

Miscellaneous Information:

[ryanbr]

Hey @rajinder-yadav

Does it occur in private window mode? Also try disabling hardware acceleration via brave://settings/system

[rajinder-yadav]

Hi @ryanbr

still happens in private mode, however after disabling acceleration seem to have helped. This is a good workaround thanks, I do hope you will fix the root cause of this problem.

[ryanbr]

Hmm okay, depending on the graphics card, maybe see if any upgrade linux packages available (or even beta packages to test). Does it occur in Chrome also?

[rajinder-yadav]

This started happening recently with Brave, not sure how long back maybe 1 to 2 weeks? This doesn't happen with Firefox. I checked don't seem to happen with Chromium.

On Brave and Firefox I am listening to videos at 2x speed, using a plug-in like "Video Speed Controller" which simply allows me to set a default start speed.

[rajinder-yadav]

This is my system info:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210425
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.15-1-default
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series

[ryanbr]

was the extension(s) disabled when testing private mode? Also could try https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhanced-h264ify/omkfmpieigblcllmkgbflkikinpkodlk?hl=en

[rajinder-yadav]

Hi after further use, I am still experiencing audio skips on videos.

[rebron]

Hi @rajinder-yadav Can you update to the latest 1.28.105 and let us know if you're still running into this issue?