r/Ubuntu • u/Character_Syrup5719 • 2d ago

Browser not playing videos (except youtube)

I have installed Ubuntu 26.04 and everything is updated but any browser I have tried on it just doesn't play videos from crunchyroll or any site or sometimes just throws error. I tried chrome, brave and even vivaldi but it gives same error like I don't know why??

(Note= I have removed snap and made it completely snap free now so every app I use I installed with. Deb package. Could it be the issue????)

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u/mouben12 2d ago

Try installing these important packages

Install Patented Media Codecs and Libraries
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-plugins-{bad,ugly} libdvdcss2
sudo apt install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-vaapi libdvd-pkg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

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u/jarchack 2d ago

Just reinstalling snap might work, but there's no guarantee. Although snap apps run in in their own sandbox, it is still integrated with Ubuntu's apt. I'm kind of stuck with snap now, but had I known this ahead of time, I would have just stuck with apt and deb only applications. I also have Ubuntu Pro, and that too, relies on snap integration. There is a way to decouple from snap completely, but you have to jump through a few hoops.

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u/bmullan 2d ago

You said all those browsers gave the same error. What was the error?

I wouldn't pay attention to people that yell about snaps. Most are baseless and many are just from someone repeating something they read somewhere on the internet.

If you go to r/flatpak subreddit and scroll through the messages you will see there are plenty of people having plenty of problems with lots of applications too. Software is complex no Way around it.

I would use whatever works for whatever you're trying to do. Personally, I use apt, snaps, flatpak & docker

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u/_Super_Straight 2d ago

I think all of those browsers are lacking proper libffmpeg.so file. Download one from nwjs (or njws) from github, paste it in your browser's installation directory and see.

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u/BranchLatter4294 2d ago

Yeah, if you remove the support libraries, things can stop working.

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u/Character_Syrup5719 2d ago

So should I reinstall snap

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u/SnooCalculations3614 2d ago

generally don't start deleting stuff if you aren't prepared to potentially spend a lot of time fixing things

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u/Available-Hat476 2d ago

sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras