1742443 - Can`t watching live video on youtube and not only

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[ion.hangan]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2021-11-22 17-59-47.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/94.0

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Audio/Video: Playback' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Kenan]

This is the URL from the screenshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A

But on Win10 it works for me... Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Comment 3

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Could you run ldconfig -p | grep libavcodec to see if you have installed the libavcodec? Because for live video, Youtube ususally would use h264 video format, which we don't have a patent to include video decoder inside Firefox on Linux, instead we would need to rely on platform decoder, which users have installed in their computer, to play h264 video.
In addition, I wonder when you first time see this problem, did you see any notification showing on the top, which indicates that you might need to install the corresponding codec in order to play that video?
Thank you.

Comment 4

[ion.hangan]

(In reply to Alastor Wu [:alwu] from comment #3)

Could you run ldconfig -p | grep libavcodec to see if you have installed the libavcodec? Because for live video, Youtube ususally would use h264 video format, which we don't have a patent to include video decoder inside Firefox on Linux, instead we would need to rely on platform decoder, which users have installed in their computer, to play h264 video.
In addition, I wonder when you first time see this problem, did you see any notification showing on the top, which indicates that you might need to install the corresponding codec in order to play that video?
Thank you.

Yes, the problem was in "libavcodec", I installed it and now it works very well.
As you can see in the screenshot, I did not receive any notification at that time.
Thanks for the recommendations.

Comment 5

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Thanks! Per comment 4 , this issue is fixed after user have installed libavcodec.