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Title: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: kenny_w on 26 January 2022, 21:45:43

To play video, you may need to install the required video codecs.

What package am I missing?

Chromium needs to be rebuilt I guess, because it's throwing this at me:

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/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libavcodec.so.58: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: Surf3r on 26 January 2022, 22:02:27

Yeah it's about latest ffmpeg update that screw many things including firefox ability to play some video formats. You'll have to downgrade ffmpeg to a previous version 2:4.4.1-1 instead of 2:5.0-3. See the announcement section about ffmpeg to see how to roll back things to work properly like before. You may have to wait till you make any updates as you can get again that borked version of ffmpeg

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: wanwalk on 26 January 2022, 22:39:28

Same problem here.

I have looked at the announcement, but I don´t know where to place the
libplacebo-4.157.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
nor how to use it. May I get a link to where I can learn this ?

thanks in advance !

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: Surf3r on 26 January 2022, 23:19:37

Follow the last @nous method when you have to edit your /etc/pacman.conf .That method should do the trick and roll back everything as before. After editing pacman.conf you'll have to issue 'pacman -Syyuu' (without quotes of course)

You can skip [lib32] if you didn't use it but if you use it than leave it as is bellow.

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[system]
Server=https://archive.artixlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

[world]
Server=https://archive.artixlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

[galaxy]
Server=https://archive.artixlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

[lib32]
Server=https://archive.artixlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2022/01/23/$repo/os/$arch

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: z3rOR0ne on 28 January 2022, 13:48:41

I'm having similar issues on certain sites. Funny enough Ungoogled Chromium not only works again with the recent update, but it also plays the videos properly, so I'm not sure what's going on as mplayer and chromium didn't work at first, but firefox was just fine, and now it's the other way around.

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: Dudemanguy on 28 January 2022, 16:32:25

Installing ffmpeg-compat-58 should resolve that issue with firefox.

Title: Re: Firefox not playing videos on Facebook
Post by: wanwalk on 26 February 2022, 19:32:53

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Installing ffmpeg-compat-58 should resolve that issue with firefox.

worked for me !

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