On 2020-07-28 04:08, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote:

Well, I did verify that even the FF downloaded from mozilla requires ffmpeg in order to play the video
when the embedded JW Player is served by the website.

I don't believe that this is an issue with required plugins at this point. As a new example, the video in https://www.iceni.com/transpdf.htm (screenshot https://pasteboard.co/JjDtMduG.png), does not load in my Firefox. However, using the developer tools in Firefox, I downloaded the embedded video (.mp4) from the link I saw in the Inspector. I was able to play this downloaded video in the default video player in Fedora with Gnome.

So I would appreciate if someone tells me if this means that this is not a codec issue, but maybe some permissions issue or something else thats happening with Firefox,

thank you!



Plays fine here on a Virtual Machine and FF to which only the open264 plugin was installed/enabled and
ffmpeg was installed.  The VM is pretty much standard Fedora 32 with no additional video stuff installed.
Disabling the open264 plugin has no effect.  The video plays fine.

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