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[Discuss] Can't play Facebook videos in Firefox



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.
>



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