On 2020-07-28 04:08, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:

Well, I did verify that even the FF downloaded from mozilla requires ffmpeg in order to play the video
when the embedded JW Player is served by the website.

I don't believe that this is an issue with required plugins at this point. As a new example, the video in https://www.iceni.com/transpdf.htm (screenshot https://pasteboard.co/JjDtMduG.png), does not load in my Firefox. However, using the developer tools in Firefox, I downloaded the embedded video (.mp4) from the link I saw in the Inspector. I was able to play this downloaded video in the default video player in Fedora with Gnome.

So I would appreciate if someone tells me if this means that this is not a codec issue, but maybe some permissions issue or something else thats happening with Firefox,


FWIW, I have fired up another VM which is 100% stock Fedora 32.  The open264 plugin is disabled
and there is no ffmpeg installed.  Result it that the video does not play.

If I were to add rpmfusion and install ffmpeg I am sure it will work.

So, have you installed ffmpeg?  If not, then I can't be of any more assistance.

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