[ale] Fedora 34, Firefox 89, video broken

[Pete Hardie]

F34 changed the audio system, IIRC, so that's probably the issue.  But
nothing turns up on teh Intarwebs for helping


On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:53 AM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I just updated my F33 desktop; this update also
> included FF-89.  I just tested youtube and the first video I tried played
> just fine.  So more likely it's either something specific to F34, or it's
> something on your specific system.
>
> -derek
>
> On Tue, June 15, 2021 8:35 am, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> > It is more the problem that no video will play in browser - but all
> seemed
> > well before the latest Fedora 34 update.  There are a number of people I
> > follow on social media who post interesting-to-me video content, and
> > having
> > to go outside the browser is annoying
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:54 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 6/14/21 10:41 PM, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> >> > Updated yesterday, YouTube video does not play.
> >> >
> >> > Any suggestions welcome
> >> >
> >>
> >> Er ... use mpv with a current youtube-dl from github?
> >>
> >> Most of the time, I stay within the approved distro repos to avoid
> >> dependency hassles later, but youtube-dl has to change constantly to
> >> keep
> >> up with all the different video stream site changes and repos don't
> >> update
> >> quickly enough for the project.
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