Opera Linux .rpm codecs support

[albi94]

albi94 last edited by

Version:	45.0.2552.812 - Opera is up to date
Update stream:	Stable
System:	Fedora 25 (Twenty Five) (x86_64; KDE)

don't support:
H.264, MP3, AAC
unlike opera on other platform(http://imgur.com/a/roYJD)

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Yes, opera's build in libffmpeg.so has poor html5 support. If your distro already has chromium-codecs packaged, install it and opera will use chomium's libffmpeg.so which has far better html5 support.

[albi94]

albi94 last edited by

Where I should to put it(libffmpeg.so)?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You do not place it somewhere. Once it is installed, opera will detect it. Opera is hardcoded to look in these locations.

$ cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json
[
  "lib_extra/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
]

I have no idea what the first one could be. The other two are where the chromium-codecs-* installs its libffmpeg.so, depending on your distro of course.

p.s. Stupid forum editor ruins the formation of what I wanted to write there. Here is a proper output on pastebin

http://paste.debian.net/933348/

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

If there is an underscore in a filename, insert a backslash before it - or indent the block by 4 spaces.

[albi94]

albi94 last edited by

$ find / -name libffmpeg.so 2> /dev/null
/usr/share/code/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so

$ cat /usr/lib64/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json 
[
  "lib_extra/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
]

reason is wrong location

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Make a symlink then to the folder opera expects it to be. Or edit the file, but you will have to edit it the next time opera updates and changes it again.

[wadka92]

wadka92 last edited by

reason is wrong location

Did you manage to get it working? I added the lib64 paths after installing chromium via dnf but it still won't play h.264 encoded videos...