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Can't play any videos on many sites (Facebook, Twitter etc) and some videos on YouTube

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Luis Braske
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Hello. For a couple of months now I can't seem to be able to reproduce some videos on YouTube (depends on their format) and no videos at all on Facebook, for example. I have the same issue on both regular and dev versions. I tried many solutions from the forums but no success so far.

My OS is Linux Ubuntu 20.04. Browser and video drivers all up to date.

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Hello. For a couple of months now I can't seem to be able to reproduce some videos on YouTube (depends on their format) and no videos at all on Facebook, for example. I have the same issue on both regular and dev versions. I tried many solutions from the forums but no success so far. My OS is Linux Ubuntu 20.04. Browser and video drivers all up to date. [http://example.com a]
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After checking the formats of the videos that were not playing using the network tab on dev tools, turned out some codecs were broken from my installation.

FYI: the culprit PPA was "savoury1/ffmpeg5". Deleting it and reinstalling the ffmpeg package solved the problem.

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Luis Braske
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Chosen Solution

After checking the formats of the videos that were not playing using the network tab on dev tools, turned out some codecs were broken from my installation.

FYI: the culprit PPA was "savoury1/ffmpeg5". Deleting it and reinstalling the ffmpeg package solved the problem.

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jonzn4SUSE
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Good job. Mark it as resolved so that it's off our plate.  ;-)