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Almost all non-youtube video sources will not play.

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Cameron Jones
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G'Day!

I've been having issues with media playback on firefox.

Almost any video source that isn't from youtube cannot play in firefox, giving the error: "No Video with supported format and MIME type found"

Testing the same video on Chromium has no problems.

Using Fedora Linux on an AMD system. And Fedora Flatpak build.

System specs below if required.

Any idea to get this up and running would be really appreciated. I think I already installed the propriety media codecs for fedora since the problem isn't showing up on chromium it looks like a firefox issue.

  1. System Details Report

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    1. Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M DS3H - **Memory:** 16.0 GiB - **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600G with Radeon™ Graphics × 12 - **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Graphics - **Disk Capacity:** 512.1 GB

    1. Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** F2c - **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) - **OS Build:** (null) - **OS Type:** 64-bit - **GNOME Version:** 46 - **Windowing System:** Wayland - **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64

G'Day! I've been having issues with media playback on firefox. Almost any video source that isn't from youtube cannot play in firefox, giving the error: "No Video with supported format and MIME type found" Testing the same video on Chromium has no problems. Using Fedora Linux on an AMD system. And Fedora Flatpak build. System specs below if required. Any idea to get this up and running would be really appreciated. I think I already installed the propriety media codecs for fedora since the problem isn't showing up on chromium it looks like a firefox issue. # System Details Report --- ## Hardware Information: - **Hardware Model:** Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B550M DS3H - **Memory:** 16.0 GiB - **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600G with Radeon™ Graphics × 12 - **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ Graphics - **Disk Capacity:** 512.1 GB ## Software Information: - **Firmware Version:** F2c - **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) - **OS Build:** (null) - **OS Type:** 64-bit - **GNOME Version:** 46 - **Windowing System:** Wayland - **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64
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Cameron Jones
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I should note. The problem persists in troubleshooting mode.

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James
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A couple packages that is not normally installed on a new Linux distro install is FFmpeg and libavcodec packages.

It is possible to play some Youtuibe videos without FFmpeg installed however you likely will not be able to play the live streams or recently uploaded videos on Youtube.

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jonzn4SUSE
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Smells like ffmpeg / OS issue and not browser. I have no issues with Rumble and Odysee. see screenshot You should provide a link to that screenshot you posted.

https://rcs.is/knowledgebase/1357/How-to-install-FFmpeg-on-Fedora-Linux.html


Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.6 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.4.0-150600.23.17-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850HS with Radeon Graphics Memory: 62.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP EliteBook 865 16 inch G9 Notebook PC

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