Using HTML5 Playback in Firefox on Fedora

JaredBusch

In order to correctly playback HTML5 video on Fedora, you need to install the ffmpeg-libs package, but this is not part of the core Fedora repositories. First you need to add the RPMFusion (https://rpmfusion.org) repo. RPMFusion maintains a Free and Non-Freerepo.

The easiest way to do this is to run their listed script.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Though you should only need the "Free" repo.

dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-27.noarch.rpm

Once you have the repo install siply install the package like normal.

dnf install -y ffmpeg-libs

Restart all your Firefox sessions or reboot and then HTML 5 playback should work.

JaredBusch

If anyone is curious as to why these libraries are not in the native Fedora repository, it is due to licensing.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items

Dashrender

@jaredbusch said in Using HTML5 Playback in Firefox on Fedora:

If anyone is curious as to why these libraries are not in the native Fedora repository, it is due to licensing.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items

well, I'd be more curious as to why they aren't included with FF. But as you already told me privately, it's a conflict of license types.

Obsolesce

@jaredbusch

I already posted this:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/15684/playing-facebook-videos-on-linux-in-firefox-chrome-etc

travisdh1

@dashrender said in Using HTML5 Playback in Firefox on Fedora:

@jaredbusch said in Using HTML5 Playback in Firefox on Fedora:

If anyone is curious as to why these libraries are not in the native Fedora repository, it is due to licensing.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items

well, I'd be more curious as to why they aren't included with FF. But as you already told me privately, it's a conflict of license types.

Yep, just because two different pieces of software are both open source, doesn't mean the licenses work together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses