shinbeth's avatar

[SOLVED]Can't play videos on Fedora Workstation 36 via firefox

This is somewhat mystery to me. I switched from Slackware 15.0 to Fedora Workstation 36 couple of weeks ago, But only now tried playing these videos on this new system, Default browser shipped with Fedora is firefox I've enabled that cisco codecs pack but still... Firefox played it in slackware.

Chromium on Fedora, only plays sound, but no video.

I am not exactly asking anyone to solve this for me. I'm just saying that videos here does not play out of the box on some systems.

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vincent15000's avatar

Have you thought about a Firefox plugin problem ? On Fedora, perhaps some Firefox plugins are not installed, while on Slackware they are.

shinbeth's avatar

I'm just saying. These vimeo or whatever videos does not play out of the box on all systems. It's not just this website laravel-livewire as well.

Whether this some DRM related or whatever reason I do not know. This system is playing youtube and other similar media channels without trouble.

So perhaps there could be some issue not just on the client side.

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shinbeth's avatar

Installing 'GStreamer Multimedia Codecs - H.264' on the system itself seems to have solved the issue. But that is weird. Probably it would have played on Chrome without issue. Browser itself played H.264 videos even before installing this, but internal Fedora player did not play H.264 videos. and suggested installing previously mentioned package.

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