Since installing Leap 15 / Firefox Quantum 60.0.2 none of the videos on the BBC web site play: “This content doesn’t seem to be working. Try again.”. The accompanying error message says
“2.19.11.1853247.r
unknown bitrate | dash (mf_limelight_dash_https)
p06b71vv | unknown dimensions
Error:4999
AdsPluginHTML.3.24.1
ContinuousPlayPluginHTML.1.23.4”
Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Which video component may be missing? It makes no differenece if Shockwave Flash (29.0.0.171) is activated or not.
Yes, but an active repo does only mean you can install from it. But that does not happen by miracle. So did you do the vendor switch? Either from YaST > Software > Software Management or with
zypper dup --from 'Packman Repository'
And to be sure you can repeat this and then try again your videos and report back.
Thanks gogalthorp and Henk, that was what was needed. Video now works.Unpleasant side-effect is that video seems to drive my cpu to the limit, requiring max cooling.
I have no experience with amd devices afaik the radeon opensource driver should be installed and it’s pretty good at hardware accelerated decoding
you can read thru the radeon wiki to see some info about testing the radeon driver https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Radeon
you could try running vainfo to check and see if your card supports hardware accelerated h264 (mp4) deciding
vainfo is part of the vaapi-tools package and usually it’s not installed by default
yes because of patent laws opensuse does not ship with any patented codecs like h264 aac etc which are among the most common video and audio used on the web
check and see if the switch to packman was successful see where ffmpeg and it’s libraries are from
zypper se -si ffmpeg
zypper se -si libav*
if the above are not from packman do another switch to packman
intel graphics are handled by the kernel itself they don’t need an extra driver package but some newer intel’s need an upgraded kernel as I’m not an intel graphics user I can’t say more
it all looks fine
does this happen with only with Firefox or with Chromium too
I use Firefox release not ESR from the Mozilla repo but afaik for the moment both ESR and release are the same
if you are using a chromium based browser like vivaldi or opera you’d need the chromium-ffmpeg-extra package from packman
have you tried another browser?
maybe it’s an add-on issue or a bad profile
try running firefox in safe mode or with a fresh profile and see if it helps
does Firefox play youtube videos as google defaults to vp9 for Linux users on youtube and vp9 is an open format that opensuse supports out of the box