I switched to openSUSE last week from Kubuntu and after a few days of use I realized that some YouTube videos are only displaying the “An error occurred. Please try again later” message. HTML5 is my default player and after a few reloads the Flash player sometimes kicks in and it works. It’s getting worse though where reloading doesn’t help. Now I thought this was an issue on YouTube’s servers since the problem occurs for the same videos on both Firefox and Chromium. However I can watch the videos comfortably on my phone and on a Windows PC all connected to the same router. Is anyone else having the same issues on openSUSE and how can I fix it?
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Just to confirm, both of those links work in the firefox default Leap install with html5 player (no packman or flash here.) I do have fluendo codecs installed, however firefox about:plugins shows only the OpenH264 Video Codec no other codec plugins.
Maybe clean out the gstreamer cache?
rm ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/*
I removed the fluendo codecs and rebooted removed the above cache file, started firefox and both videos worked fine again no switch to packman…
The thing with google is that it has servers all over the world, when we enter google.com most of us get different IP’s the same is true for youtube as most of youtube should be available in webm it should be playable with firefox without packman but…
personally I’ve noticed youtube issues when my upload is maxed out I’m not sure why, when I upload big files to my cloud youtube refuses to work I do believe a javascript running locally sends google some data and if it can not reach it, it stops playback.
I’m having the same message in running YouTube Videos on 42.1. So I used Yast Online update, searched for Adobe Flash and downloaded the program and the plugin. I got an error that the flash plugin is broken. So I went to Adobe and downloaded the .rpm and .YUM files. How to run them in 42.1?
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You shouldn’t need flash, it should run as html5 and use webm. Can you provide an example link to verify?
Else if you really, really want flash, just extract (right click on the downloaded rpm as your user and extract here) the libflashplayer.so from the rpm and as root user copy to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/
I don’t recall if I mentioned this in my original post. But I can view most videos on YouTube itself. So could there be something about this video, like being quite old or something else? Chromium displays it fine. It’s FireFox which has the problem.
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The one where a user would like to cut a scene, just above (I’m assuming one of your posts). It works fine with webm/html5 with Leap 42.1 and Firefox 43.0.
Try removing the cache file indicated above, logout/login may be needed.
that error message would appear if the OP had webm disabled and didn’t have packman’s packages for mp4 (and no flash obviosly)
I can reproduce that by disabeling webm
media.webm.enabled;false
and disabling gstreamer (I’m not going to remove packman’s packages for a test), flash too as we don’t want adobe’s so doing the rendering
the result is an error message no playable sources found.
so what’s the fix, do a vendor change to packman so you have the full version of gstreamer, install flash for decoding (not really needed), check and see if you have webm disabled in firefox and maybe a library mismatch is preventing webm from working.
ps @stubble get flash from packman it’s the latest version, the adobe rpm works too but it will cause a conflict if you have packman if not add the packman repo and do a vendor change with it.