[question] No compatible source was found for this media

[danmanrana]

Videos won't play and show the message in the title instead.

• Firefox 91.2
• OS: CentOS 8

[unixfox]

Which instance are you using?

[unixfox]

Closing due to a lack of replies. Please consult our FAQ for a potential answer to your issue: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/blob/master/FAQ.md#q-the-media-could-not-be-loaded

[danmanrana]

I tried several, including Snopyta and others with health 100. No suggested settings change helped.

[syeopite]

If you don't mind, could you tell us which video is it?

[unixfox]

Which extensions are you using on your firefox browser?

[danmanrana]

Any video I try, same problem. Just uBlock Origin. Turning it and Enhanced Tracking Protection off doesn't solve it. On another computer running Windows 10 and Firefox on another network the videos unsurprisingly worked fine. I just powercycled my modem (machine's directly connected to it) to try to solve another, unrelated issue. Just tested yewtu.be on a MacBook Air on Firefox on my original home network and it works great so it seems like a CentOS or less likely Firefox Linux bug.

I just upgraded my Firefox to 91.2 ESR and on whatever yewtu.be video I click, a browser message pops up at the top suggesting the installation of possibly missing codecs (clicking the message does nothing and it doesn't specify any specific codec) but I can't find any article explaining how and running # yum search codecs only returns kf5-kcodecs[-devel], python3-unicodecsv and PackageKid-gstreamer-plugin. Also saw that my OpenH264 codec was disabled (is that the default? Don't remember having disabled that recently) but enabling it didn't help.

Just followed the RPMFusion instructions and nothing. Neither did installing nv-codec-headers whose description mentioned ffmpeg.

[unixfox]

Thanks for the details, I feel like it's a browser issue on your side and not an issue specific to Invidious.

Could you try to load a mp4 video on your browser? I feel like you are missing some codecs.

[danmanrana]

Tried opening one on FF stored locally but it won't open. Any suggestions on how to install them? Don't see anyone else who's had this problem, but it probably is on my end since there are seemingly no other reports of this. I see several suggestions to install ubuntu-restricted-extras but I have to figure out what the CentOS name is, if it exists, and if not, then I'll have to switch to a more 'desktop' distro.

[unixfox]

You are better off using fedora instead of centos, centos is more for servers.

[danmanrana]

I had to install RPMFusion and it works now, except for videos regularly crashing (but then resuming seconds later), which I think is a 'normal' YouTube issue that we just have to live with.

[unixfox]

Safe to close then?

[danmanrana]

Yea but may I open a new report of the crashing? I see two other crashing reports but one's about Chrome and another's about running an instance I think, and this crashing has happened on other machines on other networks too.

[unixfox]

Sure you can open another issue about your crash.