SUMMARY Tracking down this issue was difficult becuase I was unsure what was causing it, after some experimentation I have determined that MprisRemote in kdeconnect was causing youtube video playback to restart when the video was paused for too long and when the video playback ended (end of video) it would start from the begining and not allow autoplay. This happens on vivaldi browser and brave browser but I imagine it would happen on every browser. I am using a android phone with the kdeconnect app paired. I am unsure if the problem lies with the android app or the kdeconnect software installed on my computer. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. have kdeconnect installed and paired to an android phone (maybe its reproducable on iOS) 2. start video playback on browser and pause it (possibly reproducable with other playback like VLC) 3. wait for what seems to be a random amount of time until the video playback resets back to the start of the video OBSERVED RESULT When video is paused and left paused it will restart playback. When video gets to the end it will restart playback. EXPECTED RESULT the video playback should remain paused or remain at the end so that I can have youtube autoplay work SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2 Kernel Version: 6.12.19-1-lts (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
prob the same issue as: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498619
seems like this might be comming from multimedia control reciever instead of mpris. I just had it happened with mpris disabled. testing this right now
From my testing it seems that it does come from multimedia control reciever and not mpris remote