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Video playback no longer works getting ffmpeg errors in terminal.

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I'm running on Fedora 36 with Firefox 105.0.1 I think I have all the required codecs, I am getting this error in the terminal when I try to play a video [Child 8677, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fc156ea7c00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - mozilla::MediaResult mozilla::FFmpegDataDecoder<59>::InitDecoder(): Couldn't open avcodec: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-105.0.1/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:151

I'm running on Fedora 36 with Firefox 105.0.1 I think I have all the required codecs, I am getting this error in the terminal when I try to play a video [Child 8677, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=7fc156ea7c00 Decode error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) - mozilla::MediaResult mozilla::FFmpegDataDecoder<59>::InitDecoder(): Couldn't open avcodec: file /builddir/build/BUILD/firefox-105.0.1/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:151