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[Discuss] Can't play Facebook videos in Firefox



They are enabled when you install them (except the -testing versions,
but you shouldn't need those unless you want to become a tester for
newly released updates).

After you install the repos, you have to insatll packages FROM those
repos.  Did you try this command which I posted before?

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

You probably don't need all those packages, but it is a good start to see if it fixes your problem.

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 06:20:17PM -0400, Nancy Allison wrote:
> I did install both free and unfree, I distinctly recall doing this. Is
> there a separate step to enable them? I've rebooted several times but the
> videos still do not play.
> 
> I checked this Youtube page (https://www.youtube.com/html5), and H.264 and
> MSE and H.264 are not checked.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Nancy
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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.



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