On a brandnew laptop I have installed Fedora 43. Apparantly everything is working correctly but when trying to look at youtube videos, I only see a spinning wheel.
I have tried youtube on Firefox and Brave but the result is the same. Youtube suggests restarting the machine but that didn’t help.
Is this a firewall issue?
EDIT
In another thread I read that this was caused by pulseaudio. After uninstalling pulseaudio, the videos were downloaded but there was no sound nor volume-icon in the gnom top-panel.
After reinstalling pulseaudio the volume-icon was present in the top-panel but Youtube didn’t download.
If the result is the same in both Firefox and Brave, then I suspect that media codecs are not the issue (if Brave is anything like Chrome, then it ships its own copy of ffmpeg). Are you using any kind of ad blocker (either in the browsers or on the network level)? I’ve seen reports of YouTube being more aggressive in breaking usage of ad blockers in recent days.
On a brandnew laptop I have installed Fedora 43. Apparantly everything is working correctly but when trying to look at youtube videos, I only see a spinning wheel.
Have you installed the appropriate multimedia repositories (RPM Fusion) and software as documented here:
you’ve broken the audio setup. Don’t mess with pulseaudio. Keep pipewire and friends installed. Videos won’t start playing because audio is blocked for all programs trying to use pulseaudio.
simple test: try to play a sample video file, usually they don’t have an audio track and will play w/o issues.
Or try to play an audio file in firefox, audio won’t play.
To recover run sudo dnf install pipewire-pulseaudio --allowerasing and reboot.
. Tomorrow I’ll continue my search.