Opera & Netflix

A Former User @leocg

@leocg I have nothing in opera://components. I must install something ?

PS: my version of Opera is 49.0.2725.64

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest

@yaute It means that for some reason Widevine isn't being downloaded.

If you have Chrome or other Chromium based browser, try copying its Widevine directory to Opera's profile directory.

A Former User @leocg

@leocg what exactly I must copy ?

For chromium I have install the package chromium-widevine who contain:
/usr/lib/chromium/libwidevinecdm.so
/usr/share/licenses/chromium-widevine/eula_text.html

In the the profile directory of chromuim I have this directory
/home/xxx/.config/chromium/Profile 1/File System/Plugins/000/application_x-ppapi-widevine-cdm
who contain:

➜ ...n_x-ppapi-widevine-cdm# ls
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 76 17 nov. 12:32 00/00000009
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 3,8K 17 nov. 12:32 Paths/000003.log
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 16 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/CURRENT
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 0 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/LOCK
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 14 déc. 11:22 Paths/LOG
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 17 nov. 12:30 Paths/LOG.old
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 41 20 oct. 12:42 Paths/MANIFEST-000001

00:
total 4,0K
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 76 17 nov. 12:32 00000009

Paths:
total 20K
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 3,8K 17 nov. 12:32 000003.log
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 16 20 oct. 12:42 CURRENT
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 0 20 oct. 12:42 LOCK
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 14 déc. 11:22 LOG
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 375 17 nov. 12:30 LOG.old
-rw------- 1 xxx wheel 41 20 oct. 12:42 MANIFEST-000001

In opera profile directory I have no plugins directory.
I don't know what I must copy and where.

Do you know where Opera download Widevine and where it copy it ? maybe I can do it manually.

In chromium //components I have:
SSL Error Assistant - Version : 4
CRLSet - Version : 4194
File Type Policies - Version : 14
Origin Trials - Version : 0.0.0.0
Signed Tree Heads - Version : 619

Thanks

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest

@yaute The folder named with the version number, inside Widevine's folder located under the browser's profile directory.

A Former User @leocg

@leocg what I do :
➜ ~/.config/opera# mkdir Widevine
➜ ~/.config/opera# cd Widevine
➜ ~/.config/opera/Widevine# cp -r ../../chromium/Profile\ 1/File\ System/Plugins/000 .

I have nothing in opera://components and it doesn't work.

Thanks

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest

@yaute There should be a Widevine folder under Opera's profile directory already.

Inside of it there should be a folder with Widevine's version number. I'm on Windows but I don't think it is much different in Linux.

A Former User @leocg

@leocg Ok, Iwill try with another Linux in a VM.

A Former User

While I don't have Netflix, I did search for Widevine on ElementaryOS. It found the following results....

/home/user/.config/chromium/WidevineCdm
This folder is empty but may work for you.

/usr/lib/chromium-browser/WidevineCdm
Contains the manifest.json

Files found were....
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libwidevinecdmadapter.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera developer/resources/widevine_config.json

I'm running Opera version 49.0.2725.39

A Former User

Fyi, opera looks in here for the widevine libraries

$ cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
[
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
}
]

And as it seems, all of them are the ones that come with the chrome packages.

A Former User @Guest

@minuteman I have no directory WidevineCdm on my arch

@jimunderscorep I create and copy libwidevinecdm.so & libwidevinecdmadapter.so manually into /opt/google/chrome and it work !

thanks guys for your help.

PS: in opera://components I have always nothing

A Former User

Glad I helped
In case anyone of the devs is reading this...

As we all see from the above, opera expects to find the widevice libs inside chrome's installation path. Why not add the

/usr/lib/chromium-browser/

path to the above. It is where ubuntu's chromium package installs the same libs. I mean, opera checks for the ppapi flash in various locations in order to find it, so why not look for the widevine libs elsewhere? Editing these files to add the proper path, as far as I know, breaks opera because it somehow checks the "originality" of them and fails to start.

And all that is just a part of a bigger discussion about customizability, e.g. the default search engines follow the same rules and cause the same problem if their file is altered.

huanglee

huanglee

Solution to this problem is simple - just turn off Opera Turbo mode. Yeah, it was that easy.

gregurbi

gregurbi @Guest

@yaute Is this solution still working for you? It worked for me for some time but now it doesn't although I have both files under /opt/google/chrome

A Former User @Guest

@yaute didn't work. I am running Manjaro with the latest Opera.
I mean ffs this issue has been plaguing Opera for years, years and nobody does a thing. Netflix does not work on Opera (Linux) out of the box and this is the only single reason why I don't use this browser. I can understand that Opera does not give a damn for those poor 3% Linux users. But please do invest some of your precious time to write at least a tutorial or howto or am I asking too much?

francehelders

francehelders @Guest

@tastymineraler Same thing with Ubuntu and Majanro here.
Sometimes i fixed this just putting widevine files on /opt/google/chrome, but did't work now.

I used Opera 52 on Ubuntu and Opera 51 on Manjaro.

gregurbi

gregurbi

@tastymineraler IMHO, any browser that is considered to compete with Chrome or Firefox should be able to play Netflix and other sites with movies. It is a big part of browsers' use nowadays and I cannot imagine a modern browser without that functionality.

BTW, it works in Vivaldi out of the box.

A Former User

I have the same problem - I think.
Widevine files (libwidevinecdm.so & widevine-1.4.8.1008) are in /opt/google/chrome, I used this script to install them:
https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe37f1#file-non-vivaldi-readme-md

If I use a user agent switcher, Netflix loads and neither gives me a widevine error nor redirects me to the support site (https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742).
But the problem is that the video is loading forever (https://imgur.com/WWyH4vt).
And it doesn't matter if I have Chrome installed or not, i. e. if there's an additional libwidevinecdmadapter.so file, the video will still load forever. The widevine_config.json file is also configured correctly.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong...
Any help is appreciated :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_smiling_eyes:

gregurbi

gregurbi

Hi, I found a solution, just follow my small how to.

Put files libwidevinecdm and libwidevinecdmadapter to /opt/google/chrome
If that folder doesn't exist then create it. If you don't have those files you can
download them from my googledrive
libwidevinecdm
libwidevinecdmadapter
Install User-Agent Switcher addon and setup it to chome Linux and the highest chrome number
Watch Netflix

A Former User

Doesn't work for me.
Netflix gives me this error: https://imgur.com/EhNtTTu .
To be honest, I think I'm going to switch back to Chrome again, because it just works (+ the sync is better).
Anyway, thanks for your help

gregurbi

gregurbi @Guest

@awesome-nils

It's strange. I used this solution on 2 laptops and it works.

Did you use the right setup in the point 2?
Do you use also another user agent besides the one mentioned in the point 2? If yes then switch it off.
Check also what you have in the file widevine_config.json. It should be located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources
My file contains
[
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
}
]