Playing Videos in Firefox

Question

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?

Solution

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

Comments

[Saif Eddin Gmati]

works on Ubuntu 18.04.2 with Firefox 62, thanks.

[Kamen Stoykov]

works like a charm

[Gagan]

Great!, working now.

[AAI]

Woks on Ubuntu 16.04LTS. Thanks

[Jack M]

Works on 19.04, but how the hell is my grandma supposed to figure this out? We gotta do better than this...

[Vikranth]

didnt fix this in the latest version of ubuntu

[bb1950328]

you have to restart firefox after the apt install

[Quidam]

It's not in "general", but in "content".

[theB]

Used this command sudo apt install libavcodec-extra58 libavcodec-extra in ubuntu-20.04. Otherwise it threw unmet dependencies error.