I upgraded to Fedora 26 weeks ago but I realize only today that I was having issues playing videos in Firefox, while I was trying to attend an online course.
At first I thought it was Flash Player’s fault: I always forget to have it and I always forget to update it. It was indeed out-of-date but the annoying “The media could not be played” error message was still there.
After a quick research and a little help from HTML5test, I noticed that few codecs were missing. I prefer not to install a bunch of codecs that I don’t even know what they’re for; if I am missing something I’m pretty sure it’ll come out! Continue reading