Workarounds for slow video loading on Chrome

Chrome is not the most video streaming-friendly browser. One annoying problem it has for some users is that the video takes 10 seconds or even longer to load. If you have this problem, the easiest solution is to switch to Firefox or Safari. Even IE Edge works better. However, if you still want to stick with Chrome, there are 2 workarounds for this problem. You only need to do one of them.

Workaround 1

  1. Open a Chrome tab and copy-paste chrome://flags/#enable-webrtc-hide-local-ips-with-mdns in the address bar.

  2. The Chrome setting that says "Anonymize local IPs exposed by WebRTC." will be highlighted.

  3. Change the option to "Disabled".

  4. Restart Chrome to let the change take effect.

Disable local ip in Chrome

Workaround 2

  1. SSH to the Raspberry Pi. Here is how.

  2. Open /etc/nsswitch.conf with your favorite editor.

  3. Add # in front of the line hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns. Add a new line hosts: files dns. So /etc/nsswitch.conf looks like:

...
#hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
hosts: files dns
...
  1. Restart OctoPrint.