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Videos not playing after update on fedora 29

millerthegorilla
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since the latest upgrade, firefox is not playing any video. I tried unchecking the 'use hardware when available' and tried checking the 'play drm content' but I am still getting the following message: Your browser does not currently recognise any of the formats available.

Youtube reports that firefox has no plugin for h.264 - see attached screenshot.

I am on fedora 29, is there a library that I need to install?

since the latest upgrade, firefox is not playing any video. I tried unchecking the 'use hardware when available' and tried checking the 'play drm content' but I am still getting the following message: Your browser does not currently recognise any of the formats available. Youtube reports that firefox has no plugin for h.264 - see attached screenshot. I am on fedora 29, is there a library that I need to install?

Chosen solution

Thanks, I immediately after I posted found the following..

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/95637/h264-videos-not-working-in-firefox/

I enabled the rpmfusion repos and installed the ffmpeg library and restarted firefox and the videos started working fine. Thanks!

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James
James
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The not being able to handle say MSE & H.264 and H.264 on https://www.youtube.com/html5/ means you may not have packages like FFmpeg installed.

millerthegorilla
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Chosen Solution

Thanks, I immediately after I posted found the following..

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/95637/h264-videos-not-working-in-firefox/

I enabled the rpmfusion repos and installed the ffmpeg library and restarted firefox and the videos started working fine. Thanks!