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Unable to play video streams from vimeo, others in Firefox.

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Error with Vimeo source: Player error The player is having trouble. We’ll have it back up and running as soon as possible. This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser

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Error from finewoodworking.com: Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED Technical details : No compatible source was found for this media. Session ID: 2018-10-04:bc5f8e3bb5df654965dbea25 Player Element ID:myPlayerID

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Running v 60.2.1esr (64-bit) "Mozilla Firefox for Red Hat Enterprise Linux" on Scientific Linux 7.5 (distro from Fermi Labs based on RHEL). All extensions and plugins are disabled (have tried enabled & disabled with same result).

Videos all run great on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS box with Firefox 62.0.3 (64-bit) "Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu" with the same plugins + "Shockwave Flash (Ask to Activate)."

Frustrating. Anyone have any ideas? TIA Ric

Error with Vimeo source: Player error The player is having trouble. We’ll have it back up and running as soon as possible. This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser ===== Error from finewoodworking.com: Error Code: MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED Technical details : No compatible source was found for this media. Session ID: 2018-10-04:bc5f8e3bb5df654965dbea25 Player Element ID:myPlayerID ===== Running v 60.2.1esr (64-bit) "Mozilla Firefox for Red Hat Enterprise Linux" on Scientific Linux 7.5 (distro from Fermi Labs based on RHEL). All extensions and plugins are disabled (have tried enabled & disabled with same result). Videos all run great on my Ubuntu 16.04LTS box with Firefox 62.0.3 (64-bit) "Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu" with the same plugins + "Shockwave Flash (Ask to Activate)." Frustrating. Anyone have any ideas? TIA Ric

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FFus3r said

see this page: or try to install Ubuntu restricted extras to get the gstreamer codecs.

FFmpeg as Firefox on Linux has not used Gstreamer since Firefox 46.0 and later. Bug#1234092. The Ubuntu restricted extras is a way to install FFmpeg if using Ubuntu or a flavor of ubuntu yes.

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FFus3r
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is the any red boxes? :

lucubrator
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"H.264", "MSE & H.264" Enabled Plugins OpenH264 Video Codec by Cisco Systems and Widevine Content Decryption Module by Google with same result.

FFus3r
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about:config

  • media.mp4.enabled > TRUE.
  • media.wmf.enabled > TRUE.
  • media.mediasource.mp4 > TRUE.
  • media.webm.enabled > try FLASE or TRUE.


download ffmpeg linux package:

see thsis page:

lucubrator
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"media.wmf.enabled" setting does not exist. The others are as specified. The gstreamer ffmpeg plugins are installed. The Mozilla pages were not helpful.

FFus3r
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see this page:

or try to install Ubuntu restricted extras to get the gstreamer codecs.

James
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FFus3r said

download ffmpeg linux package:

Get the FFmpeg from in package manger on your Linux distro instead.

lucubrator said

The gstreamer ffmpeg plugins are installed.

You need FFmpeg. Firefox has not used anything Gstreamer since 46.0 and later.

Modified by James

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Chosen Solution

FFus3r said

see this page: or try to install Ubuntu restricted extras to get the gstreamer codecs.

FFmpeg as Firefox on Linux has not used Gstreamer since Firefox 46.0 and later. Bug#1234092. The Ubuntu restricted extras is a way to install FFmpeg if using Ubuntu or a flavor of ubuntu yes.

lucubrator
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Got FFmpeg rpm package installed, (running a derivative of Red Hat, not Ubuntu) and the problem seems to be solved. Thanks to all.