Video playback freezes when 2 open watch page tabs are playing videos

[WesselKroos]

Bug description

Video playback freezes when 2 video tabs are side by side when video hardware acceleration is enabled

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Open 2 /watch?v=... tabs side by side

Browser

Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera

Operating system

Windows

Extension version

2.37.29

The bug still happens in these conditions

• [X] The bug still persist when I disable all other extensions (ex. in incognito mode with only this extension enabled)
• [X] When I logged out of my YouTube account (ex. in incognito mode)
• [X] In incognito mode

Additional context and/or screenshots

This bug has been reported to the chromium developers. More information: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1461254

[WesselKroos]

Work in progress

• [x] Reported to the Chromium developers
• [ ] Fixed by the Chromium developers

Known workarounds

• Add --enable-features=DCompTripleBufferRootSwapChain to the Chrome/Edge/Opera shortcut
• Add --enable-features=DXGIWaitableSwapChain to the Chrome/Edge/Opera shortcut
• And disable hardware accelerated video decoding in the chrome://flags webpage

[WesselKroos]

I'm closing this issue since this is a bug in chromium for which I cannot implement a workaround. The workaround has been added to the document Troubleshooter - Known issues