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apfelschwarz
Asked: 2018-05-14 02:57:59 +0800 CST

Playing Videos in Firefox

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I use Ubuntu 18.04 and Firefox 60.0 (linux beginner!)

I just installed the flash player, but the only videos that are displayed in my browser are the ones on youtube. facebook and any other streaming-services can not play videos.

do i need to install/enable html5 somehow?

flash firefox video html5

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  1. Best Answer

    If those streaming services use DRM, you must enable DRM in Firefox's settings: Preferences -> General -> Play DRM-controlled content You might also have to install package libavcodec-extra to get the codecs:

    sudo apt install libavcodec-extra

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