[ale] Fedora 34, Firefox 89, video broken

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 09:42:55 EDT 2021


Works ok for me. I updated to ff89 and started up YouTube videos with issues. 

Try it from a fresh user account so it has no customization. 

On June 15, 2021 8:59:26 AM EDT, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>F34 changed the audio system, IIRC, so that's probably the issue.  But
>nothing turns up on teh Intarwebs for helping
>
>
>On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:53 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, I just updated my F33 desktop; this update also
>> included FF-89.  I just tested youtube and the first video I tried
>played
>> just fine.  So more likely it's either something specific to F34, or
>it's
>> something on your specific system.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Tue, June 15, 2021 8:35 am, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
>> > It is more the problem that no video will play in browser - but all
>> seemed
>> > well before the latest Fedora 34 update.  There are a number of
>people I
>> > follow on social media who post interesting-to-me video content,
>and
>> > having
>> > to go outside the browser is annoying
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:54 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 6/14/21 10:41 PM, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
>> >> > Updated yesterday, YouTube video does not play.
>> >> >
>> >> > Any suggestions welcome
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Er ... use mpv with a current youtube-dl from github?
>> >>
>> >> Most of the time, I stay within the approved distro repos to avoid
>> >> dependency hassles later, but youtube-dl has to change constantly
>to
>> >> keep
>> >> up with all the different video stream site changes and repos
>don't
>> >> update
>> >> quickly enough for the project.
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