Twitter videos: "We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser."
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SO, can't play videos in Twitter.
Read the pinned thread on video problems.
Chromium ffmpeg extra codecs installed
Even tried @ruario's update script to no avail.YouTube plays, BBC videos play, Vimeo plays, Metacafe plays ... you name, it plays, except for Twitter.
Note the attached screenshots from the test page at https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
You'll see that while the matrix on the first screenshot shows all green for Chrome, on the second we can see that the video for the H.264/MP4 is blank.
On the same machine using (eg) Palemoon, it shows that same BigBuckBunny preview as the other two.
I'm stumped...
Linux x64 - Puppy Linux Tahrpup (Ubuntu Trusty-based)
Vivaldi 1.15.1147.42 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision e6c78ca75e5f4970771b2c6e6727bb07c4a76464-
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 6.5.254.41
Flash 30.0.0.113 /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.183 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.96.1147.42
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@irritable said in Twitter videos: "We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser.":
Even tried @ruario's update script to no avail.
Which Ruarí's script did you use, and its address?
is libffmpeg.so installed?Edit: No, you don't have libffmpeg.so, at least not at right location.
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@gwen-dragon If libffmpeg is missing, the terminal displays the warning:
Launching Vivaldi (1.16.xxxx.xxxxx) No suitable library for HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video and MP3 audio was found, therefore only open codecs will play. -
@gwen-dragon Of course you know much more than a simple output. However, the user might not.
Off: your shell last version is 1.2.7-p1 (2018-04-27 17:22 CEST)?
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@gwen-dragon I ran it yesterday (switch -u). It's running perfectly:)
Good to know about the newer/beta. The past tests were under previous Bunsenlabs. -
@gwen-dragon Hey! That's very, very nice to hear that:)
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Well.
I have two libffmpeg.so available to me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1720272 Jun 8 12:52 libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2891248 Jun 8 13:59 libffmpeg.soI have ensured that both are renamed as .xxx then tried to run vivaldi-stable
As expected, I get the message:
No suitable library for HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video and MP3 audio was
found, therefore only open codecs will play.Adding either of the available libffmpeg files to /opt/vivaldi/lib produces the same message.
If I move the libffmpeg to /opt/vivaldi, I no longer get the "no suitable codecs" message but despite that, Twitter videos will not play, giving only the message:
We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser.
I have also tried variations on the location of the libffmpeg files - eg /usr/lib/chromium-browser/ or /root/.local/lib/vivaldi to no avail.
Additionally, I ran Vivaldi against a new --user-data-dir location in case I had some weird shit happening in my config files and still got the problem.
It's really not clear to me at this point what else I can try.
So far as I can tell (as I said in my first post, I read the pinned thread on video problems), I have a legit libffmpeg.so and it is in a place where Vivaldi is recognising it.
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Sorry to have taken so long to get back Gwen.
OK, so ...
uninstalled vivaldi, then
removed ~/.config/vivaldi, then
removed /opt/vivaldi, then
installed latest Vivaldi, then
downloaded chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb (this is the latest Xenial package) from somewhere and installed it into my Tahr (no errors), then
ran the new Vivaldi (still couldn't play Twitter videos - same error), then
copied back my old ~/.config/vivaldi (I'd backed it up of course), then
ran Vivaldi again - it complained about upgrading but ran fine, then
Twitter videos work!This is not a recommended procedure
thanks for your patience once again.
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@irritable We are glad to know. I will tag the topic as Resolved.
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