[Discuss] Can't play videos in Firefox

[nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)]

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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