playing videos on firefox doesnt work on reddit or twitter, and doesnt work on some youtube videos.
It works on librewolf and brave, and im running on fedora 37 (using the flatpak package) i have tried every fix including but not limited to: reinstalling, troubleshoot mode, making a new profile and clearing cache. also the openh264 plugin always says preparing to install or smth but never does, thought id mention it in case its important.
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Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
Provide links to the site(s) giving you issues. Make sure your ffmpegs are current.
What desktop? X11 or Wayland?
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230330
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.8-1-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
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6
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What the openh264 is for https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-h264-plugin-firefox
One thing that is not normally installed in a new Linux install and is needed is FFmpeg as it provides the codecs needed to fully support the HTML5 players used for video, audio and games. Without it you may still be able to watch some videos on say Youtube, though usually not the recently uploaded or live stream videos.
الحل المُختار
Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release
Provide links to the site(s) giving you issues. Make sure your ffmpegs are current.
What desktop? X11 or Wayland?
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230330
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.104.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.2.8-1-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
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ZBook 17 G6
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