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Not able to play any videos

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ksalumiev
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Greetings,

I'm not able to watch any video. Tried udemy, twitter, p*rnhub. YouTube is the only site that the media works normally. There are no problems when using Chromium but this is just a temp. workaround as I insist on using Firefox.

Suspect it may be some codec issue (mainly libavcodec58)

Steps taken:

  • Reinstalled Mozilla Firefox
  • Cleared cache
  • Disabled hardware acceleration
  • Disabled all extensions (HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock Origin)

System: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Firefox version 78.0

Any help is appreciated

Greetings, I'm not able to watch any video. Tried udemy, twitter, p*rnhub. YouTube is the only site that the media works normally. There are no problems when using Chromium but this is just a temp. workaround as I insist on using Firefox. Suspect it may be some codec issue (mainly libavcodec58) Steps taken: * Reinstalled Mozilla Firefox * Cleared cache * Disabled hardware acceleration * Disabled all extensions (HTTPS Everywhere and uBlock Origin) System: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed KDE Firefox version 78.0 Any help is appreciated
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James
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Do you have FFmpeg and libavcodec packages installed?

Patent and copyright restrictions are among reasons why many Linux distros do not come with packages such as FFmpeg in a new install as it provides codecs needed to fully support HTML5 players.

Chrome/Chromium basically cheats by coming with its own codecs.

ksalumiev
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Thanks for the feedback!

There was a major upgrade of the distro and it appears I'm not the only one affected.