After normal usage of Fedora 36 and Firefox, videos stopped working in Firefox. I installed all the codecs and plugins for video to work, and it did work normally. But for a week or so , videos stopped working in Firefox. I have to use Gnome Web to watch videos.
I tried with flatpak version and it’s the same. I have the latest version of Fireofx 100.0.2
To make sure that you install all codes i will again list what you need.Firstly install rpmfusion repos free and non-free . Install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs packages and gstreamers plugins ‘sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-*,good-*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel’ & 'sudo dnf install lame* --exclude=lame-devel
'.Check settings of firefox that box of Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content is tick
With the other command, everything is already installed. I did checked the DRR in Firefox and it’s enabled.
Odd, because it did work until a week or two…
Odd…YouTube works, other don’t. On Vimeo it goes in loop with stop/pause. It looks like I click the button Play/Pause every couple of miliseconds. On local TV news it just loads to infinity. On PeerTube it’s the same as on Vimeo (loop with play/pause).
I tried with troubleshoot mode, but it’s the same. Maybe I should just delete Firefox (with all the setting files, etc.) and install it again.
On Ubuntu it was sudo apt purge firefox*
Could someone help me with command for Fedora? Thanks
I removed firefox with dnf remove firefox, but .mozzila stays. And when I install it again, everything is back to where it was (videos not playing).
I will now remove firefox, delete .mozzila and install firefox again.
can you check witch profile you running (right mouse button on firefox icon --open the profile manager ) should be two default and default-release. Select default-release and try like that to run videos.
Some seem to think the issue is Firefox and how it communicates with Wayland—as per threads here and here on Reddit—and I can at least confirm no issues running Firefox Nightly on Wayland.
ok did you try install ‘firefox-wayland’ launcher --The firefox-wayland package contains launcher and desktop file to run Firefox explicitly on Wayland.
Okay… Just to check all the bases, is this a sound issue and a playback issue; that is, does sound play correctly and its “only” streaming videos with the issue?