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How to play movies (videos in firefox) in newly installed fedora 24

How to play movies (videos in firefox) in newly installed fedora 24 To play movies in any linux one needs gstreamer librabries. Here I am describing a way to install gstreamer along with the other libraries, which wil be useful in playing any online streaming videos in firefox. (1) type the following and type the password to become the super user of your system  user@system$ su (2) Now give the following command to add the repositories to your fedora user@system$ dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm user@system$ dnf install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm (3) Now type the following to install the required libraries and softwares user@system$  dnf install gstreamer{1,}-{ffmpeg,libav,plugins-{good,ugly,bad{,-free,-nonfree}}} --setopt=strict=0