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Ubuntu 18.04 wont play You tube movies or Amazon Prime Movies

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cjw5819
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Ive tried down loading all the required packages; I have the latest FireFox available ;but still get the message on you tube to update to latest Fire Fox. On Ubuntu 18.04the same message but includes a error code 99,999.

Ive tried down loading all the required packages; I have the latest FireFox available ;but still get the message on you tube to update to latest Fire Fox. On Ubuntu 18.04the same message but includes a error code 99,999.

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zeroknight
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Try installing the flatpak version.

Install the ffmpeg version that matches the firefox runtime (mine is 23.08): 

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full
jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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Can you provide a link to a video that fails for you. What desktop? X11 or Wayland?

jonzn4SUSE
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Just for S&Gs, I downloaded 113 and both sites work for me. see screenshots


Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240126 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.114.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.7.1-2-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 Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6

jonzn4SUSE
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Maybe try to match what I have installed and see if it works. I had issues on my other laptop running Leap, but after matching the ffmpegs that are installed on my other laptop running Tumbleweed, videos are now working. I know your distro is different, but see what you can do.