[Discuss] Can't play Facebook videos in Firefox

[Chuck Anderson]

Youtube video works fine with Fedora 28 Firefox on my system.  I do
have rpmfusion-free and rpmfusion-nonfree repos enabled, along with a
bunch of packages--not sure which ones you need exactly.  After
enabling the rpmfusion repos, I usually do this:

>sudo dnf --exclude='*debug* --exclude='*devel* install gstreamer1* audacious-plugin* mpg123\* xmp-plugin*

This is what I have:

>rpm -qa gstreamer\* audacious-plugin\* mpg123\* xmp-plugin\* | sort
audacious-plugin-fc-0.8.3.6-0.10.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-3.9-6.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-amidi-3.9-6.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-exotic-3.9-6.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-freeworld-3.9-5.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-freeworld-aac-3.9-5.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-freeworld-ffaudio-3.9-5.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-freeworld-mms-3.9-5.fc28.x86_64
audacious-plugins-jack-3.9-6.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-1.14.1-2.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-libav-1.14.1-1.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-fluidsynth-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-wildmidi-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld-1.14.1-1.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-nonfree-1.14.1-1.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-base-tools-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-entrans-1.2.1-3.fc27.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-entrans-docs-1.2.1-3.fc27.noarch
gstreamer1-plugins-fc-0.2-16.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1.14.1-2.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.14.1-3.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-rtsp-server-1.14.1-1.fc28.x86_64
gstreamer1-vaapi-1.14.1-1.fc28.x86_64
mpg123-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
mpg123-libs-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
mpg123-plugins-jack-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
mpg123-plugins-portaudio-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
mpg123-plugins-pulseaudio-1.25.6-2.fc28.x86_64
xmp-plugin-audacious-4.0.0-0.19.20160922git637d1e0.fc28.x86_64

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 02:17:35PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> You want both RPM fusion free and nonfree.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Jerry.
> >
> > I did install it last night. I'll check into it again this evening.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> You need to install RPM Fusion. The easiest way is:
> >> https://rpmfusion.org/
> >> This has a lot of good things that you need. Note in the list belog, the
> >> @ sign denotes what is installed.
> >> [gaf at gaf ~]$ sudo dnf list | grep ffmpeg
> >> compat-ffmpeg28.x86_64                    2.8.15-1.fc28
> >>  @rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg.x86_64                             4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> @rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg-libs.x86_64                        4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> @rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> compat-ffmpeg28.i686                      2.8.15-1.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> compat-ffmpeg28-devel.i686                2.8.15-1.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> compat-ffmpeg28-devel.x86_64              2.8.15-1.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg.i686                               4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg-devel.i686                         4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg-devel.x86_64                       4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpeg-libs.i686                          4.0.2-1.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free-updates
> >> ffmpegthumbnailer.i686                    2.2.0-5.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free
> >> ffmpegthumbnailer.x86_64                  2.2.0-5.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free
> >> ffmpegthumbnailer-devel.i686              2.2.0-5.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free
> >> ffmpegthumbnailer-devel.x86_64            2.2.0-5.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free
> >> ffmpegthumbs.x86_64                       17.12.0-4.fc28
> >> rpmfusion-free
> >> gstreamer-ffmpeg.i686                     0.10.13-19.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free
> >> gstreamer-ffmpeg.x86_64                   0.10.13-19.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free
> >> kffmpegthumbnailer.x86_64                 1.1.0-13.fc28
> >>  rpmfusion-free
> >> mythffmpeg.i686                           29.1-18.21.20180529.g1777cc44
> >> 25.fc28
> >> mythffmpeg.x86_64                         29.1-18.21.20180529.g1777cc44
> >> 25.fc28
> >>
> >>
> >> 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-
> >>> > problems-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.