Video gets randomly sped up until I change (any) setting

[dimii27]

Every minute or so the playback goes into silence speed but without making the visualised audio red. To fix this I just press any of the keyboard shortcuts so the extension wakes up from drunkness. If I do nothing it might fix by itself after 10-20 seconds, but then I have to seek backwards into the video as I missed some information. It is possible that this happens when my RAM gets near full as I have many tabs open, but I have 16gb RAM on my laptop. Also CPU performance should't be an issue because I have an AMD R7 5000 series on my laptop

[WofWca]

Haha, thanks for reporting.

Could you tell me what website you're using, and which value of this setting you have selected?

Also, the browser is Chromium, I assume?

[dimii27]

Yes, chrome on youtube. The issue occurs when using 4x speed for silence, but when I set it to 3x it still occurs but it fixes itself after a second or two

[WofWca]

Hmmm this is weird...
Also which "algorithm" are you using, please, and can you also check the version of the extension on chrome://extensions/ ? Is it 1.26.9?

Do you think this can be related to ads?

Also, just to double check, you're not using any other playback speed-controlling extensions, right?

[dimii27]

Extension version - 1.26.9, normal algorithm (not experimental because it doesn't work on youtube)
General settings:

Conflicting extensions that I use together:

• 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos) 4.826
  

• Enhancer for YouTube™ 2.0.123
  

• Tweaks for YouTube 3.64.1
  

  • Jump Cutter prevents this extension from working propperly unless I click on both extensions and reload the page
  • This extension prevents Jump Cutter from detecting media if I use any of its audio features
  • I would like to use this extension together with Jump Cutter because it can be used to customise time display: setting, explaination - I can see remaining the remaining time of the video adjusted to current playback speed (I dream about understanding the code of both extensions so I can add a time display that is calculated according to Jump Cutter's Time saved info. But I am no programmer)

• Video Speed Controller 0.7.3 (!!!)
  

Adblock:

• uBlock Origin 1.57.0 - with all the bells and whistles
  

I will try to troubleshoot this further to find if it gets fixed when I disable these extensions [will update]

[WofWca]

Oh my. That's a lot of extensions.
I do strive to make mine compatible with others, so yeah, please do let me know if you manage to narrow down the issue. Thanks!

[dimii27]

Long story short: I couldn't find a specific extension that causes my problems. Instead I came to the conclusion that it's either using too many extensions in general, too many tabs open or both. I'm afraid to close my tabs, but incognito mode does show a signifiant increase in browser performance using this benchmark. Might update when I close all my tabs, but that seems to be it. Even at less than 90% RAM usage I believe the performance has to suffer.

[WofWca]

A fellow billion tabs enjoyer XD
You could right-click -> bookmark all tabs, or create a new browser profile (though you'd have to reinstall all extensions) in order to not lose the tabs. Also I think Ctrl + N could work as well, though I'm not sure how exactly it works.

And hmmm, yeah, multiple tabs could be of relevance to the case.