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 Message 21604 
 Computer Nerd Kev to All 
 Re: Chromium & Firefox can't play videos 
 08 Dec 25 10:29:08 
 
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bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Once again an upgrade to Bookworm on a Pi5 has killed video playback in
> both Firefox and Chromium browsers. The video starts to load, thumbnails
> keep coming but the playback doesn't start and there's no sound. 
> 
> I've tested it on the New York Times, YouTube, Netflix and some homemade
> videos that used to work. Now nothing plays, failing in the same way.

When you start Firefox from a terminal does it complain about any
missing libraries? Do video files play in other programs using
libavcodec (mplayer, ffplay)?

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