Bug 30784 - Unable to read videos from LinkedIn.com or weather.com
Summary: Unable to read videos from LinkedIn.com or weather.com
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 8
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2022-08-29 19:06 CEST by Bruno Cornec
Modified: 2023-12-15 01:01 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: firefox-91.13.0-1.mga8.src.rpm
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Description Bruno Cornec 2022-08-29 19:06:41 CEST
Description of problem:

On Mageia 8, I'm unable to read videos coming from various sites such as the one under: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-08-29-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-tropical-depression-storm
(message given: This video cannot be played in this browser)

Under: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ted-conferences/videos/ I get No compatible source was found for this media.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-91.13.0-1.mga8

How reproducible:
use firefox with the 2 URLs above and get these non-working results.

Related packages and libs that may be linked to the issue:
$ rpm -qa|grep -E 'ffmpeg|avcodec|firefox|spark' |sort
ffmpeg2theora-0.30-7.mga8
ffmpeg-4.3.4-1.mga8.tainted
ffmpegthumbs-20.12.0-1.mga8
firefox-91.13.0-1.mga8
firefox-fr-91.13.0-1.mga8
lib64avcodec58-4.3.4-1.mga8.tainted
lib64ffmpeg-devel-4.3.4-1.mga8.tainted
lib64ffmpegthumbnailer4-2.2.2-1.mga8
lib64lightspark0-0.8.5-1.mga8
libavcodec58-4.3.4-1.mga8.tainted

$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libavco*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 mai   17 15:50 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so -> libavcodec.so.58.91.100*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 déc.   6  2014 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.55 -> libavcodec.so.55.18.102*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  7326544 nov.  14  2014 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.55.18.102*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 mai   17 15:50 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.58 -> libavcodec.so.58.91.100*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14076640 mai   17 15:51 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.58.91.100*
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2022-08-29 19:56:03 CEST
I'm not sure but I think it's using flash. Do you have lightspark-mozilla-plugin
installed?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 sturmvogel 2022-08-29 20:32:05 CEST
Not reproducable here.


wether.com is using HLS stream. *)

Did you try firefox troubleshooting mode?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode

You have some old links in your /usr/lib64/libavcodec

output from 2 working systems:
$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libavco*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       23 Mai 17 15:50 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.58 -> libavcodec.so.58.91.100*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14076640 Mai 17 15:51 /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.58.91.100*






*) No serious website is using flasplayer anymore as it is EOL since 2020 and blocked from execution in all browsers since 2021. 

lightspark-mozilla-plugin is an useleas dead extension which isn't working/supported in any browser anymore as it is an NPAPI plugin.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30163#c1
Comment 3 sturmvogel 2022-08-29 20:41:53 CEST
HLS stream use x264/x265

post output from:

$ rpm -qa|grep -E '264|265' |sort
gstreamer1.0-x264-1.18.5-1.mga8.tainted
gstreamer1.0-x265-1.18.5-1.mga8.tainted
lib64de265_0-1.0.8-1.mga8.tainted
lib64x264_157-0.157-0.20191217.stable.2.mga8.tainted
lib64x265_192-3.4-1.mga8.tainted
libde265-1.0.8-1.mga8.tainted
libquicktime-x264-1.2.4-28.mga8.tainted
x264-0.157-0.20191217.stable.2.mga8.tainted
Comment 4 Bruno Cornec 2022-08-30 01:03:43 CEST
(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #3)
> HLS stream use x264/x265
> 
> post output from:
> 
> $ rpm -qa|grep -E '264|265' |sort
gstreamer1.0-x265-1.18.5-1.mga8.tainted
lib64de265_0-1.0.8-1.mga8.tainted
lib64x264_157-0.157-0.20191217.stable.2.mga8.tainted
lib64x264-devel-0.157-0.20191217.stable.2.mga8.tainted
lib64x265_192-3.4-1.mga8.tainted
lib64x265-devel-3.4-1.mga8.tainted
libde265-1.0.8-1.mga8.tainted
libx264_157-0.157-0.20191217.stable.2.mga8.tainted
libx265_192-3.4-1.mga8.tainted

(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #1)
> I'm not sure but I think it's using flash. Do you have
> lightspark-mozilla-plugin
> installed?
Yes as mentioned: lib64lightspark0-0.8.5-1.mga8

The old links for libavcodec should'nt really be a problem as the main one points to 58.
Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2022-08-30 12:17:16 CEST
FWIW, First link in description works for me too.
Second, I can not try as I left linked in.

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 6 Lewis Smith 2022-08-31 08:49:09 CEST
firefox-91.13.0-1.mga8

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2022-08-29-atlantic-hurricane-season-update-tropical-depression-storm

works fine here. (But Falkon cannot handle it - nor BBC videos).

Not in LinkedIn, so unable to try the second link.
Comment 7 Lewis Smith 2022-12-13 16:44:14 CET
Bruno, given that everyone else can see the first demo link you gave (but none of us meddle with LinkedIn to try that), can you give other video URLs that do not work for you for us to try?

And from comment 2:
Did you try firefox troubleshooting mode?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/diagnose-firefox-issues-using-troubleshoot-mode

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 8 Lewis Smith 2023-11-14 13:11:06 CET
3y passed...

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 9 Bruno Cornec 2023-12-15 01:01:17 CET
FTR, On my new mga9 based machine, freshly installed (not updated since mandriva years), it works flawlessly.

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