Re: Firefox unable to play online videos

[Frank McCormick]

On 2020-09-07 11:34 a.m., Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:
> On 9/7/20 10:06 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > I am running Fedora 32 up to date. It is a relatively
> > new install and I noticed  a few days ago Firefox is unable
> > to play any online videos, including those on CNN.COM and Foxnews.com 
> > as well as other sites.
> > I get various errors including error #4 from CNN. On foxnews
> > the circular loading image just continues forever.
> >
> > I noticed Saturday I believe Firefox was updated to 80.0.1.2 but I 
> > don't recall whether it was able to handle online video
> > before the update.
>
> I posted a message about this a few weeks ago 
> (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/...) 
> . I was told I should install ffmpeg. I had used Fedora 32 before, and 
> Firefox in it, and had been able to view videos without having to 
> install additional software.
>
> I have yet to install ffmpeg. I am too lazy to activate the rpm fusion 
> repository. Im just hoping some new Firefox update will get my videos 
> going. I can't even watch Netflix.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Please let me know if you find out how to get videos playing,

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.
Thanks for the suggestion and I jhope it will solve your problem as well.

Frank

Firefox unable to play online videos

[Anil Felipe Duggirala]

On 9/7/20 10:57 AM, 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.
> Thanks for the suggestion and I jhope it will solve your problem as well.
>
> Frank

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.

thanks,

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.