Since update from 42.1 to 42.2 Vimeo.com and some other videos will no longer play

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I recently updated my O/S from Leap 42.1 to 42.2.

Since then I no longer can play any video from vimeo.com and some videos on e.g. facebook. Youtube videos are ok.
I normally use firefox, but Chromium and Konqueror have the same problem.
I don’t get a message that I can translate to a problem that I may solve, it’s like ‘video can’t be played with current set up’.

Any clues on how to fix this?

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Have flash installed???

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did you do a full vendor change to packman?
tell us your repo’s

zypper lr -d
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I’m having identical problem: Youtube and TED Talks are ok, but facebook videos and other sites’ animated gifs no longer play.

I did have the Adobe repo on 42.1, but I didn’t add it for 42.2. After I hit the problem, I added packman, then removed the old Adobe flash and added packman’s flash-player, flash-player-gnome, and flash-player-ppapi. there is no change.

zypper lr -d
#  | Alias                           | Name                                    | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                         | Service
---+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+----------+--------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------
 1 | Google-Chrome                   | Google-Chrome                           | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64                         |
 2 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss   | Main Repository (NON-OSS)               | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/           |
 3 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss_1 | Update Repository (Non-Oss)             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/non-oss/                      |
 4 | download.opensuse.org-oss       | Main Repository (OSS)                   | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/               |
 5 | download.opensuse.org-oss_1     | Main Update Repository                  | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/42.2/oss                           |
 6 | openSUSE-42.2-0                 | openSUSE-42.2-0                         | No      | ----      | No      |   99     | yast2  | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-PLDS_DVD-RW_DS8A8SH_S45N7602Z1ZM1R001M3E |
 7 | packman                         | packman                                 | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman/suse/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/          |
 8 | repo-debug                      | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Debug                | No      | ----      | No      |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/         |
 9 | repo-debug-non-oss              | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Debug-Non-Oss        | No      | ----      | No      |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/     |
10 | repo-debug-update               | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Debug         | No      | ----      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.2/oss/                    |
11 | repo-debug-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | ----      | No      |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/leap/42.2/non-oss/                |
12 | repo-source                     | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Source               | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/oss/        |
13 | repo-source-non-oss             | openSUSE-Leap-42.2-Source-Non-Oss       | No      | ----      | Yes     |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/leap/42.2/repo/non-oss/    |

What is the affect of doing a full vendor change to Packman?

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At this point, it appears that the problem is on Firefox (v50.1.0) only. Chrome (55.0.2883.87) plays the videos fine.

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opensuse does not come with any patented codecs you can find those on the packman repo
just adding the repo is not enough you need to replace the crippled packages with fully functional ones from packman that’s what a full vendor change does
google chrome comes with it’s own patented libraries (in theory they need to pay a license fee to mpeg-la for any install and use of ffmpeg) that’s why it works out of the box
to fix firefox and chromium do

zypper dup --from 7
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Thanks for the “push” to use Packman for system packages. Switching to it for all system packages worked.

As I said in my earlier post, I had already installed the flash-plugin itself from Packman, but just not all the system packages, and this was not enough. So there must be some other package from that repository that must be required for Firefox to run flash.

Any idea which ones?

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a lot of them, for Firefox mostly ffmpeg and libav from ffmpeg, all of multimedia packages from oss are crippled by design for legal reasons.