Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/12/22 20:33, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/12/22 01:20, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/12/22 19:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/9/22 04:37, John Pilkington wrote: You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been   'rpm -e --nodeps

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-12-12 at 20:01 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I'm running with KDE and Gnome and when I issued those two command in > F37 I got a similar display. There are a few pulseaudio packages that > aren't installed, but if pulseaudio is deprecated it's not work > installing them. > >

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/12/22 01:20, Stephen Morris wrote: On 12/12/22 19:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/9/22 04:37, John Pilkington wrote: You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been   'rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio' followed by 'dnf install

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/12/22 19:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/9/22 04:37, John Pilkington wrote: You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been   'rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio' followed by 'dnf install pipewire' This is never a good idea and

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/12/22 07:39, Tim via users wrote: Stephen Morris: Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio muted that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net there is potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get pipewire to work, so my view on what I'm

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/9/22 04:37, John Pilkington wrote: You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been  'rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio' followed by 'dnf install pipewire' This is never a good idea and should never be needed. If it isn't

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 9/12/22 23:37, John Pilkington wrote: You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been  'rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio' followed by 'dnf install pipewire' and the perhaps more mainstream  'dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio 

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 16:21 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > If you reinstalled, but kept your existing home partition, you may have > systemd "user" services disabled or masked that pipewire requires. > > One way to check this is to create a brand new user, login as new > user and see if (with all

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tom Horsley
I tidbit I remember encountering with pipewire: If you reinstalled, but kept your existing home partition, you may have systemd "user" services disabled or masked that pipewire requires. One way to check this is to create a brand new user, login as new user and see if (with all the default for

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Tim via users
Stephen Morris: >>> Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio >>> muted that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net >>> there is potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get >>> pipewire to work, so my view on what I'm seeing is pipewire is not

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread John Pilkington
You have repeated many times that removing pulseaudio would remove gnome-shell. Suggested workarounds have been 'rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio' followed by 'dnf install pipewire' and the perhaps more mainstream 'dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio --allowerasing' Any comment? John P

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/12/22 10:10, John Pilkington wrote: On 05/12/2022 22:31, Stephen Morris wrote: On 2/12/22 21:47, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I still get issues where some videos will

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/12/22 16:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/6/22 14:03, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/12/22 11:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/22 14:19, Stephen Morris wrote: I tried replacing pipewire with pulseaudio by issuing "sudo dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio" but that failed because package "mutter"

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/12/22 15:35, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 09:03 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio muted that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net there is potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/6/22 14:03, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/12/22 11:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/22 14:19, Stephen Morris wrote: I tried replacing pipewire with pulseaudio by issuing "sudo dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio" but that failed because package "mutter" requires pipewire, I have no idea what that

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-06 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-12-07 at 09:03 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Pipewire doesn't work. It was videos not playing without audio muted > that started this thread. And from what I've seen on the net there is > potentially a lot of manual configuration required to get pipewire to > work, so my view on

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/12/22 11:02, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/5/22 14:19, Stephen Morris wrote: I tried replacing pipewire with pulseaudio by issuing "sudo dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio" but that failed because package "mutter" requires pipewire, I have no idea what that is, and mutter can't be uninstalled

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Tom Horsley
This post claims the --allowerasing option is needed to do the swap from pulse to pipe. https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/how-do-i-switch-from-pulseaudio-to-pipewire-and-back/27441 ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/5/22 14:19, Stephen Morris wrote: I tried replacing pipewire with pulseaudio by issuing "sudo dnf swap pipewire pulseaudio" but that failed because package "mutter" requires pipewire, I have no idea what that is, and mutter can't be uninstalled because it wants to uninstall "gnome-shell"

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread John Pilkington
On 05/12/2022 22:31, Stephen Morris wrote: On 2/12/22 21:47, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the next video it

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/12/22 21:47, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the next video it won't play without me switching my device

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/12/22 21:47, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the next video it won't play without me switching my device

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-05 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/12/22 21:47, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the next video it won't play without me switching my device

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-03 Thread George N. White III
Today, using Fedora 37 and Firefox, a search for YouTube videos gave some links with "Your browser can't play this video. Learn more. Switch camera.". The video I tried seemed to play properly in Firefox (sound and video) on an old iMac 14,2 with "nVidia GK107M [GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition]"

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-02 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 19:45 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > I've disabled the pipewire service and the wireplumber service, but I > still get issues where some videos will play and when I go to play the > next video it won't play without me switching my device between analogue > and digital, in

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/12/22 04:39, stan via users wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 09:57:10 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: I've looked at pavucontrol and there was no indication of any audio while the video was attempting to be played. I did try to change the configuration of my headset device to Digital Surround 5.1

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-12-01 Thread stan via users
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 09:57:10 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > I've looked at pavucontrol and there was no indication of any audio > while the video was attempting to be played. I did try to change the > configuration of my headset device to Digital Surround 5.1 and that > just produced static in

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-30 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/12/22 03:37, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:50:51 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: To try to rectify this issue I did the following:     Uninstalled and reinstalled Gnome via the dnf group     Did a dnf groupupdate on all groups that looked like they had something to do with

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-30 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:50:51 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > To try to rectify this issue I did the following: >     Uninstalled and reinstalled Gnome via the dnf group >     Did a dnf groupupdate on all groups that looked like they had > something to do with audio/videos for Gnome and KDE,

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-29 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/11/22 03:41, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:45:53 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: On 28/11/22 03:31, stan via users wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I have no trouble playing that video in nightly. So, something differs in our configuration. But finding it? Ha! That will be

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-28 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:45:53 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > On 28/11/22 03:31, stan via users wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer. I have no trouble playing that video in > > nightly. So, something differs in our configuration. But finding > > it? Ha! That will be a problem. Try running

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/22 17:40, Tim via users wrote: Tim: YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available bandwidth). There's no guarantee that two different people receive the same data for the same request (the HTML

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), >> and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available >> bandwidth). There's no guarantee that two different people receive the >> same data for the same request (the HTML page, nor the video file). >>

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/22 03:31, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 15:07:47 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/22 03:52, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:32:20 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link displays fine in

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/22 03:31, stan via users wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 15:07:47 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: On 26/11/22 03:52, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:32:20 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link displays fine in

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 28/11/22 06:53, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-11-27 at 09:31 -0700, stan via users wrote: I have no trouble playing that video in nightly. So, something differs in our configuration. YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), and content-negotiated (your

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-11-27 at 09:31 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I have no trouble playing that video in nightly. So, something > differs in our configuration. YouTube is a distributed service (cached, proxied, multiple servers), and content-negotiated (your browser, your device, your available

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-27 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 15:07:47 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > On 26/11/22 03:52, stan via users wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:32:20 +1100 > > Stephen Morris wrote: > > > >> There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below > >> link displays fine in Chrome and Firefox but with

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/22 05:20, Tim via users wrote: On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 09:32 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link displays fine in Chrome and Firefox but with any of the pages linked to from this page, none of them will display in Chrome and

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 26/11/22 03:52, stan via users wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:32:20 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 03:02, stan via users wrote: If it isn't confidential, you could provide a link, and I could check whether it works here. Another data point. There's nothing confidential in the

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-25 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 3:45 AM Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, > I have booked marked a support/tips page from the suppliers of the > Asus motherboard and the pages the main page links to contains Youtube > videos. The videos wouldn't play in Firefox Nightly, nor would they > display in Google

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-25 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 09:32 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link > displays fine in Chrome and Firefox but with any of the pages linked to > from this page, none of them will display in Chrome and in Firefox > Nightly I have to

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-25 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:32:20 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > On 23/11/22 03:02, stan via users wrote: > > If it isn't confidential, you could provide a link, and I could > > check whether it works here. Another data point. > There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 24/11/22 00:28, George N. White III wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:50 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: I just upgraded my computer to F37 and I don't see any issues.  I do have a number of rpmfusion codecs and applications installed. I upgraded to F37 and don't have any rpmfusion codecs

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: I just upgraded my computer to F37 and I don't see any issues.  I do have a number of rpmfusion codecs and applications installed. On 11/22/22 14:32, Stephen Morris wrote:> There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link displays

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-23 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:50 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > I just upgraded my computer to F37 and I don't see any issues. I do > have a number of rpmfusion codecs and applications installed. > I upgraded to F37 and don't have any rpmfusion codecs and applications installed.

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
I just upgraded my computer to F37 and I don't see any issues. I do have a number of rpmfusion codecs and applications installed. On 11/22/22 14:32, Stephen Morris wrote:> There's nothing confidential in the pages. The page at the below link displays fine in Chrome and Firefox but with any of

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/22 07:24, greg wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:26 PM stan via users wrote: Another possibility is that mesa recently removed support for vaapi because of patent issues, and that you need the rpmfusion freeworld version to re-enable it. If you have rpmfusion enabled, dnf swap

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 03:02, stan via users wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:47:47 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: I *have* been having a weird issue with nightly for a few weeks, where it doesn't start, but hangs when I start it. I have found a workaround, but not a cause. I just invoke chromium, and as

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-22 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:47:47 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > > I *have* been having a weird issue with nightly for a few weeks, > > where it doesn't start, but hangs when I start it. I have found a > > workaround, but not a cause. I just invoke chromium, and as soon > > as it appears, I close

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/22 03:25, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:44:57 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I have booked marked a support/tips page from the suppliers of the Asus motherboard and the pages the main page links to contains Youtube videos. The videos wouldn't play in Firefox

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/22 07:24, greg wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:26 PM stan via users wrote: Another possibility is that mesa recently removed support for vaapi because of patent issues, and that you need the rpmfusion freeworld version to re-enable it. If you have rpmfusion enabled, dnf swap

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-21 Thread greg
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:26 PM stan via users wrote: > > Another possibility is that mesa recently removed support for vaapi > because of patent issues, and that you need the rpmfusion freeworld > version to re-enable it. If you have rpmfusion enabled, > dnf swap mesa-va-drivers

Re: Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-21 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:44:57 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, >     I have booked marked a support/tips page from the suppliers of > the Asus motherboard and the pages the main page links to contains > Youtube videos. The videos wouldn't play in Firefox Nightly, nor > would they display in

Youtube Videos Don't Play in Fedora

2022-11-20 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have booked marked a support/tips page from the suppliers of the Asus motherboard and the pages the main page links to contains Youtube videos. The videos wouldn't play in Firefox Nightly, nor would they display in Google Chrome, they just showed a message saying "If the video