Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymore

bombacha

bombacha

This is a easy fix!

Download the last libffmpeg from here and decompress it.
Install at Opera directory, click at the top left corner at the Opera logo and About Opera, look at your Opera Installation path, on Debian is at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
Copy the libffmpeg.so to that path with:
sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
Restart Opera

The fix is not permanent, for every Opera update you need to do this again.
For Debian there is no chromium codec and this libffmpeg is always up-to-date and align with Opera updates.

adwil

adwil

@bombacha It's not a solution at all, Opera development quality is worsening with every version. I'm using Opera Beta and this issue was introduced with Opera Beta 54 somewhere around 26-27th of May. After a month of "testing" same bug goes straight to Stable version...

hasimir

hasimir @bombacha

Thanks a lot to both @appdevsw and @bombacha for the fix and the explanation!
It works perfectly now!

A Former User

btw, the lib I extracted for use on deb 9 came from here:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.62-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
Generally, the saiarcot repos are the best source for the newest versions.
http://ppa.launchpad.net/saiarcot895/chromium-beta/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/
or the dev branch in @appdevsw post above.

But, the stable ubuntu repos should be at v 67 some time soon.
The chromium browser in debian 9 is already at v67.

mklinuxuser

mklinuxuser @Guest

@appdevsw I have used a file from here. http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/
I had to look up which version of Ubuntu that Linux Mint 18.3 was based on. Found the answer was 16.04, so I have used the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.62-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb file. (I am on a PC with AMD CPU motherboard).
It's a bit complicated when there are so many different version of the file for different versions of Ubuntu and processors. Would be a lot better if this software was tested before release. It probably wasted about 2 hours of my time.

A Former User @bombacha

@bombacha THANKS!!!!

tyrion-ua

tyrion-ua @bombacha

@bombacha said in Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymore:

This is a easy fix!

Download the last libffmpeg from here and decompress it.

Install at Opera directory, click at the top left corner at the Opera logo and About Opera, look at your Opera Installation path, on Debian is at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Copy the libffmpeg.so to that path with:
sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Restart Opera
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The fix is not permanent, for every Opera update you need to do this again.
For Debian there is no chromium codec and this libffmpeg is always up-to-date and align with Opera updates.

Works! Opera 54.0.2952.41 (Ubuntu 18.04)

A Former User

Here's an idea for Opera's developers (who I btw adore - they are doing a GREAT job!):
Couldn't they at least warn people when they do an update which kills of features as e.g. ending support for video playback, so that we don't end up installing numerous codecs, re-installing flash, trail the internet for solutions, and sacrifice cats in order to make the function work again?
I expect videos to play back nicely soon (also with H.264-support) - they must make an update - but PLEASE make it part of the splash on a new update that you've chosen to limit the functionality temporarily!

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

Try 54.0.2952.46. There's a video fix in the changelog.

igormiguel777

igormiguel777 @tyrion-ua

@tyrion-ua Thank you so much!

A Former User

Ubuntu link to chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.62

ubuntu repo for chromium

Notice that package is available since may 31 ...

bombacha

bombacha @adwil

@adwil I'm doing this with Linux since late 2016 or early 2017, so this is coming long time ago. I don't have the post right know but one of the Opera developers told that they can't provide stuff like this because of licensing or something like that. Either way I don't really care, Debian doesn't have chromium-codecs anymore, that thing is not updated or in sync with Opera releases but the link I provided is in perfect sync and up-to-date with Opera.

adwil

adwil @bombacha

@bombacha I didn't have that problem until version 54. On 53 every video worked without problems. Even if this is some kind of licensing problem then would it be so hard to add popup on fresh opera start and ask user if he/she wants to install additional codecs? It wouldn't. Look at proprietary intel/nvidia drivers on ubuntu - all you have to do is click button to install them.

edit:
Another funny thing is that I can't seem to find .deb packages for older opera releases. I looked for "Opera 53 deb" through first 2 pages of google results - every link that I found downloads the newest release.

A Former User

all stable branch should be here:
https://ftp.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/

bombacha

bombacha @adwil

@adwil It's easy to track this issue back to Opera 45 and maybe older.
Again, I really don't care.
Since then YouTube, Facebook and other sites change their player from flash to HTML5, some of then offered both players until they drop flash support and all this started.

mklinuxuser

mklinuxuser @burnout426

@burnout426 said in Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymore:

Try 54.0.2952.46. There's a video fix in the changelog.

After getting it all working I updated to that version - videos on Facebook broken again. Now there is an other release
(54.0.2952.51) available so will try that. If it is still broken I will try copying the same ffmpeg file again! What a palaver!

bombacha

bombacha @mklinuxuser

@mklinuxuser said in Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymore:

@burnout426 said in Opera 54.0.2952.41: Streaming videos don't work anymore:

Try 54.0.2952.46. There's a video fix in the changelog.

After getting it all working I updated to that version - videos on Facebook broken again. Now there is an other release
(54.0.2952.51) available so will try that. If it is still broken I will try copying the same ffmpeg file again! What a palaver!

Yes, the libffmpeg get replaced in every update, here is what you can do.

Download the last libffmpeg from here and extract some place.
Do sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/chromium-browser
Copy the libffmpeg.so to that directory with sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser
Just to make sure run sudo chmod 555 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so followed by sudo ldconfig

That will keep you safe for a while unless there is some huge change in the libffmpeg.

Opera look in to this places for libffmpeg by default:

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",
]

Why use nwjs-ffmpeg instead of chromium-codecs package?
Because nwjs-ffmpeg comes complete (11 MB) and works with linux distribution, chromium-codecs is about 3 MB and even if you installed over Debian (my case) it doesn't work for some reason.

A Former User @Guest

@appdevsw I tried the fix, and it didn't work for me on Linux Mint 18.3, neither this version nor the new .51

Since it is still affecting the latest .51 version, while a replacement driver might be a fix for some people, it now sounds a lot less like a simple packaging error.

bombacha

bombacha

The current version is 54.0.2952.41, the new libffmpeg will not work with previous versions of Opera like 51.
Try to use the last version from here, I don't know how Linux Mint operates.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @bombacha

"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra" and the libffmpeg.so you put in it seems to survive an upgrade too.