Opera & Netflix
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@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 last edited by
@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.
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gregurbi last edited by 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.
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A Former User last edited by
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-mdIf 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 last edited by 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
- Put files libwidevinecdm and libwidevinecdmadapter to /opt/google/chrome
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A Former User last edited by 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).
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gregurbi last edited by gregurbi
@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"
}
]
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A Former User last edited by
The libwidevinecdmadapter.so link in your post above links only to text/xml.
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A Former User last edited by
@s390g2
libwidevinecdmadapter.so is obsolete anyway on newest versions of browsers. But netflix works out of the box with firefox. With vivaldi, only libffmpeg.so and libwidevinecdm.so - no ua switch needed. Have not tried chromium lately, but a start with --user-agent= something would probably work.
Newest opera's on linux need some work. -
gregurbi last edited by
@s390g2 said in Opera & Netflix:
The libwidevinecdmadapter.so link in your post above links only to text/xml.
try this one
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gregurbi last edited by
Today, after Opera update this method doesnt work again. I think that it is time to say goodbye Opera.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
...oh sorry, I came through search engine and I thought I'm in a Spotify thread, cleaning up...
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