I did a search for this topic and it turned up empty. Has anyone been able to play their movies from the Fandango at Home website? I’ve tried Brave, Google Chrome, and Firefox and I get the same error, “Playback error Unable to stream at this time. Please try a different browser.” I can stream anything from Netflix, Disney+, Prime, etc. without any problems, it’s just on Fandango at Home that I have this problem. I searched on the web and according to the “internets”, playing video from Fandango is “hit or miss” and it’s mostly miss. Any pointers will be greatly appreciated, even if it’s just to confirm that it ain’t gonna work.
I wasn’t able to get it to work personally with Firefox, Brave, or Vivaldi, but at least one person has reported success with Google Chrome: Reddit - Please wait for verification
Maybe double-check that you were using Google’s Chrome package, rather than Chromium?
Thanks dude, I appreciate the help! 
I have tried Google Chrome and was able to get one movie to at least start playing, didn’t want to watch it all the way through, but none of the other movies/TV series I’ve tried will even start playing. I’ve checked to make sure that Widevine is updated to the latest version in all of them and followed a few howtos about getting it to work but nothing seems to do the trick. One thing that some say helps is to “play the movie in SD format”, most of my movies are either HDX or 4K/UHD and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to change the replay format. Maybe that’s something I can dig around and figure out. The bad thing is, Fandango doesn’t really seem to give a crap about the issue, at least that’s the vibe I’ve gotten from their user forums.
Do you have all the appropriate multimedia codecs installed as shown at
I’ve done the following, right after a clean install:
sudo dnf5 install Making sure you're not a bot!(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm Making sure you're not a bot!(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
Then ran this to make sure all the appropriate repos were enabled:
sudo dnf5 repolist --all | grep -i fusion
Then ran:
sudo dnf5 swap ffmpeg-free ffmpeg --allowerasing
Upgraded multimedia and core:
sudo dnf5 group upgrade multimedia
Rebooted then ran:
sudo dnf5 group upgrade core
I am seeing some other steps in that howto that maybe I need to run as well? Like the " Hardware codecs with AMD", " Play a DVD", and " Various firmwares"?
This is the wrong syntax for upgrading with dnf5. That is the proper syntax for a group update when using dnf4 (which was replaced with fedora release 41)
Instead use sudo dnf upgrade --refresh which will upgrade the entire system (every affected package) with current (newly downloaded) metadata for packages available.
To upgrade a selected group you would need to know the proper group name (the first column from dnf group list or dnf group list --hidden) then the command would be sudo dnf upgrade @GROUP (if the group is already installed) or sudo dnf install @GROUP (if the group is not already installed).
On KDE there is another group that you might need installed for multimedia support
sudo dnf install @kde-media
I don’t use kde so don’t know what the differences are between kde-media and multimedia groups. When I try to install the kde-media group on my workstation (where I already have the multimedia group installed) I see this long list of packages to be installed.
$ sudo dnf install @kde-media
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Package "k3b-1:26.04.2-1.fc44.x86_64" is already installed.
Package Arch Version Repository Size
Installing group/module packages:
digikam x86_64 0:9.1.0-1.fc44 updates 66.7 MiB
dragon x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 779.7 KiB
elisa-player x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 6.6 MiB
gwenview x86_64 1:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 9.6 MiB
kamera x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 710.5 KiB
kamoso x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 738.1 KiB
kolourpaint x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 9.4 MiB
Installing dependencies:
ImageMagick-c++ x86_64 1:7.1.2.13-2.fc44 fedora 705.0 KiB
accounts-qml-module-qt6 x86_64 0:0.7^20231216.05e79eb-8.fc44 fedora 281.9 KiB
digikam-libs x86_64 0:9.1.0-1.fc44 updates 49.6 MiB
enblend x86_64 0:4.2-35.fc44 fedora 5.1 MiB
gwenview-libs x86_64 1:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 2.0 MiB
kaccounts-integration-qt6 x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 699.1 KiB
kcolorpicker-qt6 x86_64 0:0.3.0-7.fc44 fedora 86.3 KiB
kf6-baloo-libs x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 994.5 KiB
kf6-bluez-qt x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 1.3 MiB
kf6-kcalendarcore x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 1.1 MiB
kf6-kdeclarative x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 890.0 KiB
kf6-kitemmodels x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 591.6 KiB
kf6-prison x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 275.0 KiB
kf6-purpose x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 2.3 MiB
kf6-qqc2-desktop-style x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 3.1 MiB
kf6-threadweaver x86_64 0:6.27.0-1.fc44 updates 228.2 KiB
kimageannotator-common x86_64 0:0.7.0-8.fc44 fedora 270.3 KiB
kimageannotator-qt6 x86_64 0:0.7.0-8.fc44 fedora 1.4 MiB
kolourpaint-libs x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 72.2 KiB
ksanecore x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 336.6 KiB
lensfun x86_64 0:0.3.4-11.fc44 fedora 4.4 MiB
libaccounts-glib x86_64 0:1.25-24.fc44 fedora 230.2 KiB
libaccounts-qt6 x86_64 0:1.17-4.fc44 fedora 192.6 KiB
libdmtx x86_64 0:0.7.8-3.fc44 fedora 126.4 KiB
libkdcraw x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 111.3 KiB
libksane x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 746.2 KiB
libpano13 x86_64 0:2.9.23-2.fc44 fedora 759.1 KiB
signon x86_64 0:8.60^20240205.c8ad982-5.fc44 fedora 980.0 KiB
signon-plugin-oauth2 x86_64 0:0.25^20231216.fab6988-7.fc44 fedora 240.2 KiB
signon-qt6 x86_64 0:8.60^20240205.c8ad982-5.fc44 fedora 245.3 KiB
signon-ui x86_64 0:0.15^20240205.eef943f-6.fc44 fedora 305.1 KiB
vigra x86_64 0:1.12.1-7.fc44 fedora 531.5 KiB
Installing weak dependencies:
hugin-base x86_64 0:2025.0.1-2.fc44 fedora 21.9 MiB
kaccounts-providers x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 360.2 KiB
qt6-qtbase-mysql x86_64 0:6.11.1-1.fc44 updates 118.3 KiB
signon-kwallet-extension x86_64 0:26.04.2-1.fc44 updates 58.8 KiB
Installing groups:
KDE Multimedia support
Transaction Summary:
Installing: 43 packages
Total size of inbound packages is 64 MiB. Need to download 64 MiB.
After this operation, 197 MiB extra will be used (install 197 MiB, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]:
It looks OK per the documentation ?
dnf5 group {install|remove|upgrade} [options] <group-spec|environment-spec>...
What you show is a throwback to keep dnf5 somewhat compatible with the dnf4 syntax although it now only uses the first column for the group name with either the older syntax or the newer syntax.
Using dnf4 the second column name is required and also is case sensitive while requiring quotes around the group name if it contains spaces.
From the man page for dnf5-install
dnf5 install [options] <package-spec-NPFB>|@<group-spec>|@<environment-spec>...]
and from man page for dnf5-upgrade
dnf5 upgrade [options] [<package-spec-NPFB>|@<group-spec>|@<environment-spec>...]
Note that the syntax as structured the way you show it was an add-on syntax after the initial release of dnf5 to try and make things more similar to the dnf4 syntax that had been around for several years.
While it works as shown, it is easier for me to use the new syntax.
Do yall think I might need to run the commands, that are pertinent to my hardware, in the guide that @computersavvy linked to above? Specifically the “Hardware codecs with AMD”, " Play a DVD", and " Various firmwares"?
Thanks
I’m seeing the same thing with firefox, chrome, chromium, and flatpak chrome.
I don’t think this is a codec problem.
I’ve tried ffmpeg, ffmpeg-free with libavcodec-freeworld and have mesa-va-drivers-freeworld installed.
I tend to agree. I’ve tried everything and still no dice, no matter the browser I try. I’ve looked at other sources, specifically the Fandango at Home forums, and there is, as far as I can tell, no desire by the devs at Fandango to even try to make their streaming service work with Linux. As far as I’m concerned I consider this “case closed” with no resolution. I appreciate everyone’s suggestions/help but I’m not going to pursue this further.
If you do not have an AMD gpu those hardware codecs probably would not assist.
For playing a DVD that is important
The firmware is always recommended, but most can be updated using the command sudo fwupdmgr update