[ale] Fedora 34, Firefox 89, video broken

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Tue Jun 15 11:33:42 EDT 2021


On 6/15/21 8:35 AM, Pete Hardie 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
> <mailto: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?
> 

I find forced commercials more annoying.  mpv+youtube-dl solves that.
A little select/paste and I'm watching sans tracking. Have a small perl script that removes all the tracking and encoded junk in typical video URLs. URI::Escape module does the hard stuff.



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