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bug: broken duration / position; shorts break new youtube player chromium and firefox based.
Upstream bug. MPRIS and thus playerctl affected
The player I am using is librewolf and brave-beta.
New youtube player fails to trigger a new duration on media change after initializing a short. Any seeking or loop will force an update but left static even changing videos will retain the original position/duration data.
Based off this chromium code media_position.cc It appears position reset is also attached to the duration update thus I believe solving duration fixes position. I tried looking beyond that but I'm just wholly out of my element on this code base and CPP.
I saw no issues opened to chromium or firefox and quite frankly have no idea where to post this so I'm passing the buck to someone I think might know. Sorry for that inconvenience.
Overview of gif:
- short 00:13
- short 00:30 (keeps position/duration of 1st short)
- video 22:54 (new position keeps duration of 2nd short)
- video 00:09 (keeps position/duration of 2nd short)
- replay 00:09 (updates position/duration to current video)
- video 2:00:34 (keeps position/duration of replay) position/duration information is confirmed to align with mpris dbus values
I made a browser/hosts workaround here.
Tested on:
- Google Chrome
- Chromium
- Brave
- Vivaldi
- Microsoft Edge
- Opera
- Firefox
- Librewolf
- Zen
Inspired by: youtube-mpris-fix by @d1BG