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[SOLVED] Firefox isn't able to play certain videos since yesterdays update

Yesterday, october 5th, firefox and a bunch of video codecs got updated, and now the browser no longer plays videos or streams from twitch.tv. I tried Brave and it worked there, so might just be a firefox issue. Anything I can do about that?

Edit: Checked on my laptop that's running cachyos, works there even after the same browser+codec update.

[TL;DR mod edit: install ffmpeg4.4]

Re: FIrefox isn't able to play certain videos since yesterdays update

Reply #1 –
The same thing occurs to me too on Gecko browsers (Firefox, Librewolf).
Videos on Facebook or X are playing without sound and the mini progress bar is not functional.
The Chromium browsers are functioning properly.

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Reply #2 –
You might try Waterfox which is in our galaxy repo; it's Firefox ESR based. Or ungoogled-chromium from omniverse.

artist

Re: FIrefox isn't able to play certain videos since yesterdays update

Reply #3 –
I updated firefox from 143.0.3-1 to 143.0.4-1 and did not see any sound problem on youtube.

I updated all the software and still have sound; I use openbox as wm and my sound is pure alsa (I don't use pulseaudio or pipewire),

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Reply #4 –
Quote from: replabrobin – on
I updated firefox from 143.0.3-1 to 143.0.4-1 and did not see any sound problem on youtube.
youtube is fine. Check out any random short video on Facebook or X.

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Reply #5 –
Same here. I have a suspicion it is related to DRM content.
In my browser Firefox (but I also tried in chromium) no audio  or video would play from Netflix, Spotify, Qobuz or my local TV provider.
YT videos are fine though.

Re: FIrefox isn't able to play certain videos since yesterdays update

Reply #6 –
Sorry I don't use either facebook or X, probably I'm too old and curmudgeonly.
Archlinux has updated to 143.0.4-1 so perhaps they will seen the same errors there.

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Reply #7 –
I noticed that it has been a couple days since FFmpeg was bumped from v7 to 8. That might have had some effect on Mpeg videos.

Maybe Firefox and company didn't follow suit for some reason.

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Reply #8 –
Quote from: Artist – on
You might try Waterfox which is in our galaxy repo; it's Firefox ESR based. Or ungoogled-chromium from omniverse.

artist

Tested, it does not play on waterfox either. Seems a gecko family issue like someone else pointed out

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Reply #9 –
Quote from: Penaz – on
I noticed that it has been a couple days since FFmpeg was bumped from v7 to 8. That might have had some effect on Mpeg videos.
Maybe Firefox and company didn't follow suit for some reason.
I was thinking the same thing, but the problem doesn't occur with vanilla Arch. I have the same version of Firefox and FFmpeg.

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Reply #10 –
All,
Although the title of this topic suggests that it is a firefox problem, it is not.
I ran a test with a fresh install of chromium and had the same problem.
This is not a browser problem. Issue is somewhere else.

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Quote from: strider – on
All,
Although the title of this topic suggests that it is a firefox problem, it is not.
I ran a test with a fresh install of chromium and had the same problem.
This is not a browser problem. Issue is somewhere else.
I recently discovered that the VLC player is having trouble playing certain MP4 videos.
Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "h264" (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10))

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Reply #12 –
Twitch TV works for me in Firefox, although many videos are blocked here with an age restriction due to recent UK oppression and censorship. Also Facebook videos work, you don't need an account if you use a search engine to get direct links for testing, e.g.:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1171824748131161
The audio was off by default, click one of the buttons on the top right of the video image to enable it.
I am using alsa, no pulse, and for VLC I have vlc-plugins-all installed which is required in many cases after the plugins were split out into separate packages.

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Reply #13 –
That facebook video works for me in latest firefox 143.0.4-1 and as for vlc I have all the plugins (via vlc-plugins-all). So far I have not discovered any sound issues; perhaps others can point to problematic cases.

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Reply #14 –
Quote from: replabrobin – on
That facebook video works for me in latest firefox 143.0.4-1 and as for vlc I have all the plugins (via vlc-plugins-all). So far I have not discovered any sound issues; perhaps others can point to problematic cases.

I installed vlc and vlc-plugins-all and now it works. I guess a little bloat never hurt anyone :^)