[Discuss] Can't play videos in Firefox

[smallm at sdf.org (Mike Small)]

Is everything checked in this page?

https://www.youtube.com/html5

I don't recall now what to do if it's not, but that site helped me once
when trying to play a DRMed youtube video I bought for my son. It at
least helps zero in on what's not working.

Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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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