Install video codecs

[Apollo18]

I know that Clear Linux isn’t like Ubuntu, for example, that installs proprietary video codecs by default. But I really want to be able to see the videos on my Twitter feed, for example. Is there any way to get video working? What would I need to install, and how would I do it? I understand Linux basics but would need a very step by step guide.

[puneetse]

This thread has a lot of information on the topic:

How-to: h264 etc. Support for Firefox (including ffmpeg install)

A brief how-to for h264 etc. support for Firefox (including ffmpeg install). You’ll need the C compiler installed and packages to enable vaapi hardware acceleration sudo swupd bundle-add c-basic devpkg-libva Now create a build directory somewhere and cd into it. mkdir ~/build && cd ~/build Install ffmpeg curl -LO https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-4.2.tar.bz2 tar jxf ffmpeg-4.2.tar.bz2 cd ffmpeg-4.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared && make && sudo make install If you haven’…

[Apollo18]

Thank you for pointing me to that thread. I followed the instructions and it worked. I confirmed it by checking the YouTube page for HTML5. But I still don’t see videos running on my Twitter page. Is that a different codec?

I felt like a real programmer watching all of that text fly by in the terminal window!