Also had reports on this via our support tracker discourse site. Seems chromium or chrome has this issue. Firefox apparently has no issues in playing videos.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760661 Title: Chromium and Chrome pausing Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 18.04 Budgie Chrome and Chromium installed via debs and snaps are pausing for variable seconds at a time, many times a minute. Happens with or without any extensions. Firefox is fine. CPU usage seems to go up with the pauses. Here is the snap run chromium output: ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment. Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932 comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi" label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer" member="Ping" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login " label="unconfined") Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932 comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi" label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.Secret.Service" member="SearchItems" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login " label="unconfined") [5932:6071:0402/134337.573104:ERROR:udev_watcher.cc(60)] Failed to begin udev enumeration. Thank you. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1760661/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp