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https://www.youtube.com/html5 I don't recall now what to do if it's not, but that site helped me once when trying to play a DRMed youtube video I bought for my son. It at least helps zero in on what's not working. Nancy Allison <nancythewrit...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 > -- Mike Small sma...@sdf.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss