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videos on twitter are not playing

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I was browsing twitter and I saw that firefox was not able to play videos on it. It repeatedly said "This media could not be played."

I was browsing twitter and I saw that firefox was not able to play videos on it. It repeatedly said "This media could not be played."
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Make sure you have the latest FFmpeg and libavcodec packages installed as this might not be the case by default in some Linux distributions.

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Make sure you have the latest FFmpeg and libavcodec packages installed as this might not be the case by default in some Linux distributions.

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Please elaborate and guide through the installation process. Thankx Btw

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Well it may be in your package manager or apt or yum or whatever you have for your Linux distro.

Your useragent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

It appears you are using a flavour of Ubuntu? so perhaps see https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-20-04-ffmpeg-installation or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Patent and copyright restrictions are among reasons why many Linux distros do not come with packages such as FFmpeg in a new install.