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    • da0ist
      da0ist last edited by
      1. http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhY3VtkM3XRFZ1ahy1
      2. http://www.golocalprov.com/news/Fight-Breakout-Outside-Strip-Club-on-Allens-Avenue
      3. https://twitter.com/HalifaxReTales/status/890649888622485504
      4. https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=86b_1501108167
      5. http://www.flyheight.com/videos/white-guys-went-to-the-hood-looking-for-a-fight-but-end-up-getting-jumped/
      6. https://streamable.com/fsgbg
      7. https://i.imgur.com/kyGv0Fy.gifv
        That last one will play if you remove the trailing "v". I would like to use opera more, but this types of issues are too prevalent to recommend it as a daily driver. Any ideas on how to get it to play more things?
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      • sgunhouse
        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Hare you installed the Chromium codes package?

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        • da0ist
          da0ist last edited by

          Do you mean Chrome codecs? Can you point me to a howto please?

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          • da0ist
            da0ist last edited by

            $ apt search chromium|grep codecs|cut -d/ -f1|grep -v ^\ |xargs sudo apt install

            WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

            [sudo] password for jamesward:
            Reading package lists... Done
            Building dependency tree
            Reading state information... Done
            Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
            requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
            distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
            or been moved out of Incoming.
            The following information may help to resolve the situation:

            The following packages have unmet dependencies:
            chromium-codecs-ffmpeg : Conflicts: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra but 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.17.04.1360 is to be installed
            chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra : Conflicts: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg but 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.17.04.1360 is to be installed
            oxideqt-codecs : Conflicts: oxideqt-codecs-extra but 1.21.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
            oxideqt-codecs-extra : Conflicts: oxideqt-codecs but 1.21.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
            E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

            Is this what you mean? Not working out well.

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            • da0ist
              da0ist last edited by

              Add netflix to the list...

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              • da0ist
                da0ist last edited by

                This fixed it for me:

                $ sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

                From here:
                https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OperaBrowser

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                • fluffy
                  fluffy last edited by

                  Any help for fedora users?
                  I've got flash installed but everything on Soundcloud fails to play, for instance. Same goes for Netflix/Prime Video, Bandcamp and such...

                  Installed chromium-libs-media with no results.
                  Regards

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Well, on debian I had no video at all in opera47, so downloaded oxideqt-codecs-extra from ubuntu. It contains libffmpeg.so. I extracted that file from the .deb package with xarchiver and dropped the file into the opera directory to replace the existing libfffmpeg.so. This did the trick for opera, and apparently works for vivaldi as well.

                    I had flash disabled from the start and still do

                    On this system it is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/.

                    Beyond that, the structure is different on debian, with libavcodec-extra servicing the other apps at the system level.

                    Netflix is still no go, however - maybe user-agent switcher to chrome would work.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Yeah, netflix works with user-agent switch to "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36"

                      Also, had to switch off vpn.

                      See also ruari's scripts at https://gist.github.com/ruario/bec42d156d30affef655
                      These can get the libs on your system efficiently and unobtrusively, but symlinks to the libs may need to be added depending on the situation.

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