Cannot playback certain sites's video in Firefox

English Multimedia
#1

I try this here. Though this video playback issue isn’t related to any specific openSUSE release, I mentione I have Leap 42.2 x86_64 installed on three workstations (hardware) using the noveau graphic driver.

Without really knowing the reason, I have succeeded (randomly) to get this type of “newspaper web video” to open and playback in Firefox on 2 of these 3 workstations, but remarkable not on the newest and most powerful i7-6700K Skylake based machine, which else playback local video and some other type web video most powerful.

I thought this could be a flash detail plugin-setup issue, possibly scripts etc., but the web video won’t playback neither in Firefox nor Chrome on this machine.

Is it possible to find out by querying the video url which type of video this is, and most important what setup it needs to be run? Here follows a typical sample url (animals after about 20 seconds advertising):
https://www.vgtv.no/#!/video/133469/leoparden-ser-ikke-hvem-som-sniker-seg-innpaaThanks,
Terje J. H

#2

Sorry, here I try a new url to this video archive in hope it works better:
https://www.vgtv.no/#!/sok/dyreneTerje J. H

#3

That site seems to have technical problems on the first link at the moment (not sure, don’t understand Norwegian…) but random choices from this second archive play with no problem here.
They load a “jw-player”, which apparently requires Flash.
Here flash-player-npapi-24.0.0.186-release.x86_64.rpm from the Adobe site is installed. Please check what you have there.
Also, please be aware that the Nouveau driver doesn’t support newer Nvidia chips, maybe you need to install the proprietary driver on the newer workstation.
Also, maybe on the Skylake unit you need the “i915.preliminary_hw_support=1” boot parameter to correctly engage the integrated graphics processor.

#4

The direct link to access a specific video caused an error from this forum, yes, but selecting video from the archiv works.

Currently I’m on one of the workstations where this type of video does playback ok (E3-1241 cpu, GM206 gpu).
Here I have only flash-player - Adobe Flash Plugin and Standalone Player 24.0.0.186-2.2, x86_64 from Packman Repository installed.

Firefox about:plugins shows this is on:
OpenH264 video-kodek 1.6 from Cisco Systems, Inc.
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.4.4
Evince 3.20.1 Browser Plugin
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.1 (suse-2.35-x86_64))
GNOME Shell Integration
Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

#5

I don’t have the “NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.4.4”, but that’s not a problem apparently.
"Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0" is needed by the jw-player apparently, so you are OK on that WS.
Still I doubt that you are driving the GM206 GPU with the Nouveau driver, since it doesn’t support Maxwell chips yet AFAIK (surely doesn’t support my GM107M at the moment).

On the newer WS the i7-6700K has an integrated GPU that might get in the way and is not fully supported by the 4.4.x kernel in Leap 42.2 without the i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 boot option AFAIK.
Maybe Flash 24.0 has problems with that HW and/or driver setup, please check that all is well in the graphics stack on that newer machine.

#6
  1. Office WS that playback video ok:
inxi -Fz
CPU:       Quad core Intel Xeon CPU E3-1241 v3 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB  flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 3890.609 MHz 2: 3851.723 MHz 3: 3900.504  MHz 4: 3899.556 MHz 5: 3709.893 MHz 6: 3702.670 MHz 7: 3777.430 MHz 8:  3901.553 MHz 

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] 
           X.org: 1.18.3 drivers: nv,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) tty  size: 107x25 Advanced Data: N/A for root 

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM206  [GeForce GTX 960] [10de:1401] (rev a1) 
    Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:3201] 
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau

On the newer WS the i7-6700K has an integrated GPU that might get in the way and is not fully supported by the 4.4.x kernel in Leap 42.2 without the i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 boot option AFAIK.
Maybe Flash 24.0 has problems with that HW and/or driver setup, please check that all is well in the graphics stack on that newer machine.

  1. Home WS that won’t playback this spesific video (while HD video playback fine with VLC, Cinerella/ffmpeg editing):
inxi -Fz
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-6700K (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 4200 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 1525 MHz 3: 800  MHz 4: 1126 MHz 5: 800 MHz 
           6: 4200 MHz 7: 4200 MHz 8: 4197 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 730] 
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded:  modesetting,fbdev,nv,vesa) 
           tty size: 106x28 Advanced Data: N/A for root 

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208  [GeForce GT 730] [10de:1287] (rev a1) 
    Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:84f5] 
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau

zypper se -is flash-player
S | Name               | Type    | Version        | Arch   | Repository
--+--------------------+---------+----------------+--------+-----------
i | flash-player       | package | 24.0.0.186-2.2 | x86_64 | packman   
i | flash-player-gnome | package | 24.0.0.186-2.2 | x86_64 | packman

Firefox about : plugins ON
OpenH264 video-kodek 1.6 from Cisco Systems, Inc.
NPAPI Plugins Wrapper 1.4.4
Evince 3.20.1 plugin
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.1 (suse-2.35-x86_64))
Skype Buttons for Kopete
GNOME Shell Integration
Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0

#7

I should not say sorry now, because the video playback suddenly and happily works, also in full screen mode on the third workstation :slight_smile:
I forgot to mentione that there were problems also on the other workstations before this video began to work. The frustrating thing is that I don’t know which plugin or other things that really solved the problem, in case this repeats again, i.e after next Leap upgrade.
By the way, thanks for the feedback.

Terje J. H