Yay! I've been able to get hoopla digital working on Firefox 52 and Ubuntu 16.04.
Now Firefox has the DRM stuff which you have to enable at about:preferences#content by checking the Enable DRM box. I thought that was it, but I had to do a little more.
The secret? I don't know exactly what was missing, but I think it was the H.264 codec.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/389437/how-do-i-get-html5-h-264-video-working-on-firefox
and going to the youtube HTML5 video checker told me that h.264 was not present (that's why some youtube videos won't play for me):
https://www.youtube.com/html5
So running
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
gets everything sorted, (and you need to restart firefox) and presto! Hoopla works!
I have struggled mightily and gotten quite discouraged but I'm happy now.
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