Re: Firefox unable to play online videos

[Tim]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> > Well I had tried everything else so I activited the rpm fusion
> > repository, installled ffmpeg (a HUGE download and install) and it
> > solved my problem. Videos now work everywhere.

Anil Felipe Duggirala:
> Yep. I dd the same just now. Installing ffmpeg gets all my videos
> going in Firefox and other browsers as well. This includes Netflix
> and Twitter videos.

There are a plethora of video formats, and you'll often not have a clue
what codec is being used (things like .avi .mov .mpg filename suffixes
don't indicate what's really inside them).

At least installing ffmpeg will get just about everything supported in
one go.