Black Video - When the "Forced Theater Mode" option is turned on

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Black Video - When the "Forced Theater Mode" option is turned on #1771

Closed merlin555 closed 1 year ago

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

Hello everyone,

I've had the problem for a few weeks now that there's no video on YouTube. Only black. The sound works. As soon as I turn off the "Forced Theater Mode" option in the settings, it works normally. Sometimes it works if I just watch one video on YouTube and let the page reload several times. As soon as I load many videos together into tabs, it doesn't work.

Greetings,

Merlin

Improve YouTube! v4.339 Firefox 117.0.1 64-Bit Windows 10 22H2 Nvidia Game Ready Drivers v537.34 ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition Z97-PRO GAMER 32 GB RAM

ImprovedTube commented 1 year ago

hi! @merlin555 i think theater mode might not be the only setting required to get the bug.

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

Hi, Do you mean that "Theater Mode" could work if I deactivate/activate another option ? Which could that be ?

ImprovedTube commented 1 year ago

not sure, can you try disabling each of your active player features one by one?

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

I'll do it as soon as I have time for it.

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

I have now deactivated all add-ons except the "Improve YouTube" and the problem still occurs.

I reset the add-on setting and activated theater mode. Here too, the problem still exists.

Can you please give me the link to an older version? But I have Firefox.

ImprovedTube commented 1 year ago

hi! thanks, firefox nicely allows to click previous versions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/versions/

only sep4 & aug7 this time (some are missing there because they werent approved before we uploaded the next one
- so to find the issue i would prefer if you can unzip these two (sep2 & aug29) https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/1759#issuecomment-1725220041 . The issue might be starting Sep4.
  - (also suggesting to go back to the latest one soon as of the number of other things we improve or fix)

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

Version 4.28 works.

anasiandeude commented 1 year ago

It only happens after the force theater mode "kicks in" if theater mode isn't set in the first place. The first few seconds when the page and the extensions are loading in normal mode the video plays just fine. Don't know if this information help but this is what I found.

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

@anasiandeude

Thank you, I know that. So with the newer version, I could deactivate the theater mode and always switch to Manual. But I hope this gets fixed.

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

I have now tested it on Windows 11. It works there.

merlin555 commented 1 year ago

I was wrong. Doesn't work on Windows 11. That was once a coincidence.

anasiandeude commented 1 year ago

Yesterday I realized that this post is for firefox so I thought it was chrome's problem. Just curious, did firefox has updated the past month? For chrome the problem started happening since two or three updates ago but I couldn't recall which one.