Can anybody from this community help me with Youtube video? None of the browsers provided support it. It just freezes - no streaming. How come such a trivial thing as Youtube is not supported? I tried all kinds of plugins for Firefox and Chromium that installed - nothing works.
Does this distro at all support Youtube? Can anybody suggest what to do?
Than what is wrong with my setup? My host is on KDE as well (Kubuntu). What can possible be wrong? I searched "“debian+youtube+issue” and get nothing, as if Google does not know about it. As if I’m a sole person on this planet to have such an issue.
what, there is nobody here who can help??? No video support in the browsers - not possible to use Youtube in none of the browsers and nobody gives a damn??? Why is called “support” then?
It works fine for a lot of other People, including myself, so there is no one who can help you since this isn’t a known issue.
Yes, nobody can help, since you give no Information. I already asked you in post #7 whether you’d verified the Images and reinstalled VBox.
You ignored that.
Also, if you really want to figure out whether the issue lies with Whonix, try this: Set up a Debian VM on your System. Try Youtube on there. If it doesn’t work, we know where the issue lies.
If I may suggest a test. Start a new VM and install another OS. Then see if you can view Youtube videos in it with a plain browser. Maybe that is a good place to start.
I don’t know if this issue was resolved for the users that reported problem, but I now in 2020 also experiance this issue.
I’m at time of writing runing
Virtualbox Version 6.1.16 r140961 (Qt5.6.2)
Whonix-XFCE-15.0.1.5.1
Image was verified with the hases provided
Machine settings for graphics
128mb graphics memory
VMSVGA
3D Graphics (tried both on and off)
I’ve set the tor browser with noscript disabled and security on standard
I’ve also installed
Firefox (youtube and other doesn’t work)
brave (youtube and other doesn’t work)
chromiom (youtube doesn’t even open up)
While using firefox with the dev tools I did see that the browser gets a ether 204 or 404 on the contnt retrival .js link…
What I also see is that the player shows that the video content is loaded. It seems so play the first 1 to 2 sec then behaves as if it’s trying to buffer, (and if left long enough) it’ll replay that first 2 sec then repeat.
So a stupid question came up in my head. is there any filtering done on content on the gateway server?? before getting to the workstaion
I also installed the latest debian 10 in a new virtualbox, youtube doeswork, jittery with 3d off and fearly nice with 3D on. Useing firefox
That is an ancient virtual graphics card. Doesn’t support 2D for sure and 3D is of no use for these kinds of graphics workloads. In fact this criteria is useless with new graphics virtualization architectures at least for KVM.
If you want to play high quality videos with no hassle just switch to KVM and you should have no problem out of the gate.
YouTube works for me. There are no VirtualBox performance issues after enabling 3D Acceleration. This however is discouraged for security reasons in documentation. Was able to watch a video in HD as well as in 4K quality with Tor Browser inside VirtualBox.
Without enabling VirtualBox 3D Acceleration video viewing experience is degraded to to low graphic performance.
What’s better or worse for security, enable VirtualBox hardware-accelerated graphics (3D Acceleration) or disabling CPU mitigations? Please consider resolving that question through Free Support Principle and let us know what you found out. Please use a dedicated forum thread for that.