No html5 for MX-17 [Solved]

danielson

Installed ffmpeg from software repo. but still no go for playing videos on Youtube.
Seeing that this seems to be specific and that it's not a playback issue, decided to make a separate

danielson

Thank you Gwen.
Here's message i get when trying with Ubuntu directives:

$ sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra' has no installation candidate

Being a non-geek in Linux, i don't know how to proceed with the next possible step to resolve this:
"If your distro does not provide a package with a suitable library or one is not detected, you can run the script ./latest-proprietary-media.sh"

Sorry!

Caine

@danielson Have you enabled universe?

sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update

danielson

@caine - command not found.

Caine

@danielson Really? That's surprising.

Assuming it is the first one that fails. Does this one work?

sudo add-apt-repository universe

danielson

@caine said in No html5 for MX-17:

sudo add-apt-repository universe

Excuse me Caine, was tempted to trying it but found just before posting, a little icon sitting in the startup menu called "MX Codecs Installer" under the MX Tools lineup! And it works!

Talk about coool!!

Caine

Great, another problem solved! Happy youtubing

danielson

Thank you Gwen and Caine!

MX-17 is really a neat distro with so much to discover.
Now, if i could only stop distro-hopping and get better acquainted with all its features.

i_ri

hello danielson, Gwen-Dragon, Caine, everyone
Yes to apt, aptitude, synaptic ... package manager ; + gdebi.
No ubuntu [universe or othrwise] repositories
on MX-17 debian stable .
Great that mx showed to you something like an easy button ! (?)
let us know how the MX Linux and vivaldi works out for You.

danielson

MX-17 is not only of the nicest distros i've tried.
It is a "silent knight" (makes HP Elitebook very quiet compared to Windows and even many other Linux distros tested) in the spirit of Christmas giving (forum support like here at Vivaldi is always excellent!).

But i'm now drifting away for the thread here...