Media Playback Blocked by Browser.

[CrazyMew37]

This bug happens on Brave Browser, where whenever I watch a video, the playback will just suddenly stop sometimes. It's not consistent with every video but every video affected stops playing at a certain time. According to the console, the error is 'ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT'. an HTTP 400 Bad Request Error, and a Video.js 'CODE:3 MEDIA_ERR_DECODE'.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go on a random video
2. Watch said video
3. The video may stop playing at a certain time

Expected behavior
I expect the video to play fully.

Screenshots

System Configuration

This is on the Odysee website.
I'm running Brave Version 1.70.123 (Chromium 129.0.6668.89)
My OS is Windows 11 23H2 (22631.3958)

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[tzarebczan]

Thanks for the report, and sorry to hear that's happening. If you click the retry button in the top left, does it end up playing?

[CrazyMew37]

Uh, no. The video still doesn't play.

[tzarebczan]

How often would you say it happens? Does it also happen in other browsers? Are you watching at 1x or a faster speed?

[tzarebczan]

Also, if you refresh, does it work then?

Would be great to pick this up with you via hello@odysee.com so we can communicate more readily.

[tzarebczan]

Another way to debug this is to check the recent players and click the file that was playing to see the logs here: chrome://media-internals/

[CrazyMew37]

It happens with some videos, and it doesn't happen with others. I'd say it happens about 30% of the time. I'm watching at 1x speed.

Refreshing the page does not work.

As for the recent players, this is what I got as a log (via text file);
media-internals.txt

[CrazyMew37]

Small update: I think a potential issue is that I'm running an audio website called 'My Noise' alongside the video. When I turned off its playback, the video I was using to test the bug suddenly started playing. It may be possible that the video is just having conflicts with that website. Only issue is that I need that website and its audio on. Currently, I'm solving the issue temporarily by using Vivaldi instead of Brave, which doesn't seem to have this issue.

[tzarebczan]

Thanks for the addtional details. Sounds like some browser bug that might be causing this - wonder if it happens with other sites that have audio/video, or only that one. Glad things are working better now - going to close this for now.

[CrazyMew37]

Actually, I'd reopen it. The problem persists on Vivaldi, too. I thought it didn't but it does.

The odds seem to be a lot lower (I'd say about 5-10% on Vivaldi, but the issue still seems to crop up. If I come across the issue again, I'll post the logs and stuff.

[CrazyMew37]

Thanks for the addtional details. Sounds like some browser bug that might be causing this - wonder if it happens with other sites that have audio/video, or only that one. Glad things are working better now - going to close this for now.

I have an instance of the media playback stopping on Vivaldi.

odysee.com-1728705746047.log
media-internals (1).txt

Refreshing the page seems to have solved the problem, but I still have some items in case if you need it.

[tzarebczan]

Are you also playing the My Noise on Vivaldi, or in the other browser at the same time? If you don't play that site, do things work normally?

We're not able to reproduce the issue on our end unfortunately, so it would be hard to debug/fix. We can try a couple things and send you a test site to try it on, give us a few days. Can you reach out to us at hello@odysee.com directely to coorindate this?