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Videos only play a few frames

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When i try to play videos on YouTube or other websites the video will only play a few frames and then stop.

I have tried going into troubleshoot mode but it did not help. I am using Linux.

When i try to play videos on YouTube or other websites the video will only play a few frames and then stop. I have tried going into troubleshoot mode but it did not help. I am using Linux.

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Thank you for helping. I tested a bit and i belive it was not an issue with firefox since it did not work on other browsers either.

I reinstalled my system and now everything works fine. Might have been an missing package.

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ffmpegs installed and current? What OS? I'm on a rolling distro, but your packages shouldn't be far behind. see screenshot


Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230412 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0 Qt Version: 5.15.8 Kernel Version: 6.2.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9850H CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 125.1 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630 Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6

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Thank you for helping. I tested a bit and i belive it was not an issue with firefox since it did not work on other browsers either.

I reinstalled my system and now everything works fine. Might have been an missing package.