Firefox video problem on guest

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Mahdi63
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Firefox video problem on guest

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My both guest and host are ubuntu, but only on the guest, Firefox cannot play twitter videos. error:
We cannot play the video in this browser. Please try a different web browser.

Guests tested: ubuntu 18, ubuntu 16
Last edited by Mahdi63 on 9. Jul 2018, 19:11, edited 1 time in total.
socratis
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Guest OSses: Win(*>98), Linux*, OSX>10.5
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Re: Tor browser video problem on guest

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Most probably your browser expects some video acceleration that's not readily available, either because you didn't install the GAs, or you haven't enabled 3D acceleration, or the level of 2D/3D acceleration provided by VirtualBox is not adequate enough.
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