New comment by q66 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/14366#issuecomment-530156533 Comment: Alright. Turns out my suspicion was right, and video playback works on machines with working audio. Most likely gstreamer craps out at getting access to audio device in my VM, which 2.24 ignored but 2.26 no longer ignores (probably because it uses a different gstreamer player abstraction, playbin3, for MSE sources like youtube). Testing by another person with a functional audio setup reveals that youtube playback is in fact completely fine. Therefore, there are no more blockers from my side.