Sometimes, the video or audio content in a web page cannot be properly downloaded and displayed in Firefox. This article will help you solve these problems.
- Restart Firefox. If you left the Firefox browser open for a long time, it may have been idled and it.
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Firefox may be blocking media with sound from playing automatically. To allow media autoplay, see Allow or block media autoplay in Firefox.
If you see a notification saying 'To play audio, you may need to install the required PulseAudio software', it means that Firefox cannot find or use PulseAudio. The PulseAudio software is required to play any audio from Firefox. Most Linux distributions now come with PulseAudio pre-installed.
Use your system's software package manager and ensure that PulseAudio is correctly installed.
Firefox has built in support for open media formats usually associated with MP3, WebM, Ogg and Wave containers. However, MP3 and MP4 containers usually depend on platform decoders for MP3, AAC and H.264 audio and video streams. For more information, see Fix video and audio playback problems on Firefox for Windows and HTML5 audio and video in Firefox.
See How to clear the Firefox cache.
Ad-blocking software, such as anti-banner filters of your Internet Security program, or extensions, such as Flashblock or Adblock Plus, can prevent audio or video content from playing.
- If the site works with ad-blocking disabled, you may want to add the site to your whitelist in your adblocker filter.
- If the video or audio plays when you disable all extensions, then one of your extensions was causing the problem. For more information, see Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems.
Firefox Streaming Capture
- Cookies:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences.Click the menu button and select ...
- Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Cookies and Site Data section.
- Verify that cookies are enabled and that the site is not blocked in the Exceptions list.
- History:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences.Click the menu button and select ...
- Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the History section.
- Make sure that Firefox is set to Remember history.
- Pop-up windows:
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences.Click the menu button and select ...
- Select the Privacy & Security panel and go to the Permissions section.
- Allow the website as an exception to the 'Block pop-up windows' setting.
Firefox Streaming Video Freezing
See Reset Firefox preferences to troubleshoot and fix problems.
Firefox Streaming Issues
If you use a hosts file, you can temporarily disable it by renaming it Xhosts. Or, you can edit the hosts file to remove specific entries such as ad.doubleclick.net that can cause videos on certain sites to fail (for more information, see this MozillaZine forum thread). To apply changes to your hosts file, you may need to flush the DNS cache by entering the command: ipconfig /flushdns in the Run dialog box on Windows.
Based on information from Video or audio does not play (mozillaZine KB)