Somehow, when I typed Firefox in the terminal it reinstalled some packages, including codecs that are now activated. Then, when i launched it a second time, it still didn’t load my videos and showed me what i attached to this message. No package errors were shown during the install.
Nothing more.
Then, I restarted my laptop and got that. the buffer wasn’t mentioned before so maybe it’s the clue ? What do you think ?
Mmmmh, and when I come back into the settings, the codecs are gone again.. the widewine is fine but the open one is ‘to be installed’ while it was before
The only thing that seems having gotten them activated is when I went to troubleshoot tab and emptied the cache there. Now I could reactivate it. No more messages in the terminal. But YouTube still doesn’t work.
And after another restart, plugins are active but the lines with ‘open driver return 0’ appear like in the first photo, (without the GFX-1 error). And it still doesn’t work.
Just googling that error message turns up the following.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=424710
Does the suggestion on that forum fix the problem (deleting ~/.cache/mozilla)?
It reactivated the plugin apparently, but YouTube still is buffering through the void. I put cache in the trash + renamed the directory to get a new profile, but it’s still there.
And terminal says this now while I definitely didn’t erase that file because I renamed it according to the tutorial.
Should I just try re installing fedora ? Do you think it can fix that ?
Can I possibly just reinstall it without erasing mint ? It saved me today so I definitely wanna keep it.
Or should I just try to reinstall firefox again ?
you’ve removed your profile directory ~/.mozilla instead the cache in ~/.cache/mozilla
No need to reinstall. start firefox, go to settings general and and enable Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content. Or if it’s enabled then disable and re-enable it. This should download the plugin again. But DRM is not required for general youtube.
What does the about:support page in FF show under media?
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Maybe. Something to try that might be slightly easier than a full reinstall would be to create a new user account.
You certainly should be able to do that. But I’ve never attempted it and I have heard of Grub having problems with those sort of multi-boot configurations.
Ah, I had forgotten that there are two versions of Firefox available on Fedora Linux depending on where you install it from. If you use the GUI to install it, you get the Flatpak version, but if you use the command line, then you get the RPM version. Uninstalling it (or both of them if you have both installed) and then reinstalling one or the other might make it work. I think the Flatpak version comes packaged with its own codecs. I always use the RPM version. Use flatpak list to see if you have the Flatpak version installed.
Firefox is pre-installed as rpm.
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I see. It looks like the Firefox Flatpak may no longer exist. So nevermind, it seems what I thought I knew is outdated info.
Edit: Or not. I got confused by some Google results. Definately don’t use the Snap version.
Usually firefox HW decoding for Intel works almost out of the box. I’m surprised is not working. Even w/o HW decoding it should stream videos with software decoding. Maybe some ipv6 access issues?
Maybe disable ipv6 DNS in firefox
about:config and enable network.dns.disableIPv6
Any chance the first dnf upgrade run (when /boot was full) interrupted the rest of the upgrade process?
Indeed IpV6 was disabled. When I go to a live YouTube video, the chat is animated but the video buffs/loads to no end
Does vainfo show that you have hardware-accelerated decoding?
I see that RenderCompositorSWGL error again in your screenshot. You might focus on trying to fix that error. Since that link I found earlier suggested that it might be something in your profile, I’d try creating another user account and see if that works.
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When you talk about a new user account, is it in Firefox or in Fedora itself?
On Fedora itself.
From the command line, I think the following commands should be sufficient to create a new account.
sudo useradd user2
sudo passwd user2
Then sign out and you should be able to sign in with the new account.
Edit: If you want the new user to be able to run sudo, then you need to add them to the “wheel” group. You can do that at creation time by using sudo useradd -G wheel user2. But you could also do it later as long as your original account still exists and has sudo privileges.
Please post the output of the command inxi -CSGzxx as preformatted text ?
any chance to get the about:support page from Mint as well?
Are any FF extensions installed? Maybe re-try w/o extensions first. Don’t sync with your firefox acount etc. Just pure vanilla firefox profile.
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I tried on a new user account, same deal. IpV6 and DRM were not activated so I activated them but it’s not changing anything.
Where do I input the command you indicated ?
in a terminal.
what happens if you install the FF extension enhanced-h264ify and block 60fps, h264 and AV1. This wil force youtube to stream vp8 or vp9 videos.
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Here is the input :
System:
Kernel: 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
Desktop: GNOME v: 48.1 tk: GTK v: 3.24.49 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check rev: C cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 679 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 679 2: 679 3: 679 4: 679
5: 679 6: 679 7: 679 8: 679 bogomips: 28800
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel WhiskeyLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics 620] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3ea0
Device-2: Cheng Uei Precision Industry (Foxlink) HP Wide Vision HD
Integrated Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 05c8:03bc
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.6 compositor: gnome-shell
driver: gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x14ff res: 1920x1080 dpi: 158
diag: 354mm (13.9")
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.4 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:3ea0 display-ID: :0.0
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
And as I mentioned before, on Mint I have no issue whatsoever, I can stream normally so I use it instead of Fedora in the moment to do that.