Question to everyone who is experiencing this: are you perchance using KDE Connect, and your desktop is paired with another device over a slow connection (like you connect your desktop to your phone’s Bluetooth hotspot because that happens to be the only way for the desktop and the phone to be on the same network)? Trying to establish a correlation here.
Not even installed here.
I do use KDE connect, but it’s over local wifi. Nothing slow about it.
I haven’t had the video freeze since the newest 570.144-5 driver landed. Yet. But have had Plasma hang a few times after sleep, requiring a reboot before KDE behaves again. But that seems like a problem that happens to everyone, lol!
@M.Karrde, are you referring to gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3462? Your experience does somewhat match what mine was a few kernel versions ago whilst playing video, (although I’ll be somewhat surprised if they’re related):
If not, do you still have the URI to that report? I ask because I’m trying to find corroborations for it, and haven’t located anything except my own report thus far.
Unfortunately I did not save that URL, pretty sure it was on the KDE bugtracker itself (bugs.kde.org) maybe referring to that, but as I don’t have AMD not followed that any further and can’t recall exactly anymore. Sorry.
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This is also happening to me. I have been doing system updates regularly to solve. AMD GPU on CachyOS. Only happens after extended away like overnight (IE. goes to sleep). Entire system locks up except for audio for about 10 to 15 seconds. Video does not play even although audio is playing. Then it just pops back in as if nothing wrong. Happens with any video, not just youtube. Netflix, Hulu, etc. Does it 100% of the time with each new video started until I restart the entire system.
Just an update. I turned off the option to stop video’s upon sleeping and this seems to be a work around. I am kind of a a normal joe end user so not sure if there is a ticket opened for this officially or if that is even useful info. At any rate, it is what is working for me.
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If the same thing is happening to AMD GPUs then it throws doubt on KDE’s assertion that it’s a NVidia driver issue. This only happens in KDE - never in Gnome, Hyprland, and Cosmic.
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Back in November when I started this thread there was a similar issue that apparently got fixed through the AMD driver, so it was (maybe) a fair assumption Nvidia could do the same.
And every current Windows Gamer would approve the Nvidia driver is as bad (now) 
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Probably just similar but not all of it i guess.
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Knock on wood, but I haven’t had the issue since 6.4 landed!
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