[Discuss] Can't play Facebook videos in Firefox

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

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.
>>> >
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