[Discuss] Can't play videos in Firefox

[Jerry Feldman]

The videos play on my system. Initially, when I read your email I didn't
have any sound.
But I went to the sound settings since I use USB earphones. It is working
fine now. I don't want to pay for a Washington Post subscription. Facebook
videos and you tube all work fine and at the same time.
You have seen my settings for RPM Fusion. I'll test on my laptop shortly.



On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Mike Small <smallm at sdf.org> wrote:

>
> Is everything checked in this page?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/html5
>
> I don't recall now what to do if it's not, but that site helped me once
> when trying to play a DRMed youtube video I bought for my son. It at
> least helps zero in on what's not working.
>
> Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi, John and all.
> >
> > Thanks for these suggestions. My goodness, what a messy situation. I'm
> > copying Jerry Feldman directly, because I know he uses Fedora and knows
> it
> > well. Jerry, is there any better way that John and I can both benefit
> from?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --Nancy
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:02 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I've had the same problem for several years. My workaround is to use a
> >> command-line tool to download the videos, then play them with mplayer.
> >>
> >> The command-line tool is called "youtube-dl". You can install it with
> >> dnf, but the version in dnf doesn't get updated very often, so I
> >> prefer to install it manually so I can easily fetch the latest update
> >> as needed.
> >>
> >> youtube-dl can dowload videos from a large number of sites, including
> >> youtube, facebook, and vimeo. I just tried it on a washington post
> >> page, and while it didn't work on the page directly, it worked when I
> >> viewed the page source and then used youtube-dl on the embedded video
> >> url, which was from abc.com.
> >>
> >> https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nancy Allison
> >> <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Follow-up: I've followed steps 1 and 1 (that's how they're numbered)
> on
> >> > this page and installed RPM Fusion for Fedora 28. Then I rebooted.
> Still
> >> no
> >> > luckc playing videos in Facebook, Washington Post, or Vimeo (so far).
> >> > Suggestions gratefully received.
> >> >
> >> > https://rpmfusion.org/
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Allison <
> >> nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> For what it's worth, I also can't play videos from the Washington
> Post
> >> >> site, so it's not just Facebook.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Nancy Allison <
> >> nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Hi, all.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I have just switched to Fedora 28 from Ubuntu, and now Facebook
> videos
> >> do
> >> >>> not run in Firefox.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I googled this issue and found a topic about it:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/120605/video-probl
> >> >>> ems-on-firefox-on-fedora-28/
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I entered the command suggested and got this result:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> [theauthor at new-host ~]$ sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia
> >> >>> [sudo] password for theauthor:
> >> >>> Last metadata expiration check: 2:28:43 ago on Sun 22 Jul 2018
> 02:16:22
> >> >>> PM EDT.
> >> >>> 13Group 'Multimedia' is already installed.
> >> >>> No match for group package "gstreamer1-plugin-mpg123"
> >> >>> Dependencies resolved.
> >> >>> Nothing to do.
> >> >>> Complete!
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I then entered the second command as suggested:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> [theauthor at new-host ~]$ sudo dnf install compat-ffmpeg28
> >> >>> Last metadata expiration check: 2:30:13 ago on Sun 22 Jul 2018
> 02:16:22
> >> >>> PM EDT.
> >> >>> No match for argument: compat-ffmpeg28
> >> >>> Error: Unable to find a match
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I don't know what to do next to fix this problem. All suggestions
> >> >>> gratefully received.
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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> >>
> >>
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