Unable to play video at a italian newspaper site
Hi Firerfox complains at http://video.repubblica.it/cosa-pensano-le-ragazze/il-progetto/la-settimana-delle-ragazze/232029/231542 that "Non e' stato trovato un formato valido da riprodurre" [there is not a valid format to to be played].
I have just installed Flash plugin (but I am not sure it is a Flash issue)
File: libflashplayer.so Path: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so Version: 11.2.202.577 State: Enabled Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
I am on a Fedora 23 machine Linux fedora-pc 4.4.4-301.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 4 17:42:42 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Help is welcome thanks mario
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The video does use Adobe flash. But when I tried to play the clip, my computer locked up for several minutes.
FredMcD said
The video does use Adobe flash. But when I tried to play the clip, my computer locked up for several minutes.
so? eventually are you able to play it?
Modified by mario60
It did start, but I didn't want the computer to lock up again. So I left.
This error message usually is about the HTML5 media player and not about Flash.
You can check via the right-click context menu of the player area what kind of media player is used. A Flash based player shows a context menu with the Flash version.
In this case I see an MP4 file played by the HTML5 media player.
- http://cdn.flv.kataweb.it/repubblicatv/file/2016/03/12/308793/308793-video-rrtv-650-concita_presentazione2.mp
Make sure you have the latest GStreamer and FFmpeg updates in your Linux distribution.
@cor-el thanks, your advise for GStreamer and FFmpeg helps a lot. I missed both and installed both.
I checked the source of the page http://video.repubblica.it/cosa-pensano-le-ragazze and at line 468 got the video's url: WT_JSVideo_UTILS.videoUrl = 'http://flv.kataweb.it/repubblicatv/file/2016/03/18/310023/310023-video-rrtv-650-476_elettra_okk.mp4'; If I ask for that url, firefox opens totem video player and totem plays the video fine (after asking for some extra codecs that I was able to retrieve with a couple of clicks: shame on me, I forgot to take a note about which codec totem asked to look for).
But, on the main page, I still get the error message and see a blank player area. What else could be missing?
thanks for your help.
Modified by mario60
You have a 64 bit Firefox version according to the user agent.
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Are you using the Firefox version from the official Mozilla servers or the version from the repositories of your Linux distribution?
Try the Firefox version from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.