Sound interrupted when FreeTube window unfocused

[ptomato]

Since updating to 0.20.0 the app became unable to play videos in the background. Whenever the window is not focused, the sound experiences long interruptions of silence.

Focusing the window, or even entering the desktop overview so that the window becomes visible, restores the sound.

This may be an upstream problem with the app, but my first guess is that it's a Flatpak permissions issue, which is why I started by reporting it here.

Rolling back to the previous commit from Flathub, 7869a90dd4ae09be42c15e77e3bae5e689a021ee8029a37dbf2882a0f22df684, fixes the problem for me.

[Angedestenebres]

Same issue than: FreeTubeApp/FreeTube#4899

[zestygrass]

Experiencing the same issue currently

[JoshuaMacklin]

FreeTubeApp/FreeTube#4899 (comment)

Reposting here as a fix to this issue