Hi, John and all. Thanks for these suggestions. My goodness, what a messy situation. I'm copying Jerry Feldman directly, because I know he uses Fedora and knows it well. Jerry, is there any better way that John and I can both benefit from?
Thanks. --Nancy On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:02 AM, John Abreau <abre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had the same problem for several years. My workaround is to use a > command-line tool to download the videos, then play them with mplayer. > > The command-line tool is called "youtube-dl". You can install it with > dnf, but the version in dnf doesn't get updated very often, so I > prefer to install it manually so I can easily fetch the latest update > as needed. > > youtube-dl can dowload videos from a large number of sites, including > youtube, facebook, and vimeo. I just tried it on a washington post > page, and while it didn't work on the page directly, it worked when I > viewed the page source and then used youtube-dl on the embedded video > url, which was from abc.com. > > https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ > > > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Nancy Allison > <nancythewrit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Follow-up: I've followed steps 1 and 1 (that's how they're numbered) on > > this page and installed RPM Fusion for Fedora 28. Then I rebooted. Still > no > > luckc playing videos in Facebook, Washington Post, or Vimeo (so far). > > Suggestions gratefully received. > > > > https://rpmfusion.org/ > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Allison < > nancythewrit...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> For what it's worth, I also can't play videos from the Washington Post > >> site, so it's not just Facebook. > >> > >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Nancy Allison < > nancythewrit...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, all. > >>> > >>> I have just switched to Fedora 28 from Ubuntu, and now Facebook videos > do > >>> not run in Firefox. > >>> > >>> I googled this issue and found a topic about it: > >>> > >>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/120605/video-probl > >>> ems-on-firefox-on-fedora-28/ > >>> > >>> I entered the command suggested and got this result: > >>> > >>> [theauthor@new-host ~]$ sudo dnf groupupdate multimedia > >>> [sudo] password for theauthor: > >>> Last metadata expiration check: 2:28:43 ago on Sun 22 Jul 2018 02:16:22 > >>> PM EDT. > >>> 13Group 'Multimedia' is already installed. > >>> No match for group package "gstreamer1-plugin-mpg123" > >>> Dependencies resolved. > >>> Nothing to do. > >>> Complete! > >>> > >>> I then entered the second command as suggested: > >>> > >>> [theauthor@new-host ~]$ sudo dnf install compat-ffmpeg28 > >>> Last metadata expiration check: 2:30:13 ago on Sun 22 Jul 2018 02:16:22 > >>> PM EDT. > >>> No match for argument: compat-ffmpeg28 > >>> Error: Unable to find a match > >>> > >>> I don't know what to do next to fix this problem. All suggestions > >>> gratefully received. > >>> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: abre...@gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss