Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint
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skerdoba last edited by
I've been using Linux Mint and Opera for about a year now and never had any problems playing videos and GIFS in facebook. But both videos and GIFS stopped working, only in facebook, about 2 weeks ago. I can still play videos on YouTube and can play GIFS on sites like giphy.com. I can even play videos and GIFS in facebook Messenger, but not facebook itself. If I switch over to Chrome, videos and GIFS on facebook work fine, so the problem is only with Opera. I have scoured my facebook settings for anything that might be causing this problem but came up empty. Facebook used to have a setting to disable automatic video playback, and I thought the problem might be related to that, but I no longer see that in the settings options. I am running Linux Mint version 4.4.0-130-generic and Opera version 54.0. Any thoughts?
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A Former User last edited by
I have the same Problem
Videos can not be played on many Internetpages... -
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
https://forums.opera.com/topic/27375/opera-54-0-2952-41-streaming-videos-don-t-work-anymore/54
Did you check those topics?
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A Former User last edited by
Yes same issue here running
Version information
Version: 55.0.2994.14 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: beta
System: ROSA Desktop Fresh R10 EE 2016.1 Desktop (x86_64; KDE) -
A Former User last edited by
@melangecounselling
If Opera 55 is based on Chromium 68, you'll likely needchromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extraversion 68. Can you check what version you have currently installed? -
Tokera last edited by
I have the same problem.
Version information
Version: 54.0.2952.60 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Linux Mint 19 (x86_64; XFCE) -
A Former User last edited by
@melangecounselling I have Opera-stable 53.0.2907.37 for the moment on (L)Ubuntu on one certain laptop (4.15.0-29-generic linux-image). The Ubuntu repositories call this the most recent Opera-release. No update possible to 55.0.2994.14 through terminal. Also, chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-ext 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 in Synaptic Package Manager. No mention of version 68. Same recent problem with video rendering in e.g. facebook. Normal video rendering in other browsers.
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A Former User last edited by
@skirual This is pretty strange. As far as I know, Opera repositories are maintained by Opera, not Ubuntu. Opera 53 was compatible with codecs 66, and Opera 54 is compatible with codecs 67 (both are in repositories for Ubuntu 16.04 now and work well). Probably Opera devs forgot to push a new version to the repo?
You can try downloading Opera 54 manually from here:
https://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/54.0.2952.64/linux/ -
A Former User last edited by
Videos and "gifs" on facebook and many other sites are actually h264 encoded mp4 clips, so please read all the other threads about opera's libffmpeg problems and you will find all the needed answers.
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A Former User last edited by
@denisftw Nowadays youtube uses html5 video player in browsers that support it (including Opera).
Here is Opera's documentation about Adobe Flash Player:
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A Former User last edited by
99% of the sites out there use html5 for videos, etc nowadays, not just youtube. In fact, its is really hard to find a site that uses flash only.
And the documentation there refers to the old presto opera, which today is as obsolete as flash is. Or internet explorer
And that opera is not installable on today's distros due to its prehistoric dependencies (gstreamer 0.10 for html5 support omg)! -
A Former User last edited by
I'm having similar problems with Windows 10 version of Opera. The videos play fine on Fb mobile site (m.facebook.com/) but just don't function on desktop site, no matter if I enable or disable my script and ad blocking extensions. Upon clicking on video it opens as a link, and does not play. Clicking on it again jut repeat the link-following behavior. It's been like this since I started using Opera. On Chrome the videos play fine with the same extensions enabled, although I do notice that the set of scripts differ between Chrome and Opera.
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A Former User last edited by
Version information
Version: 54.0.2952.64 - New version 54.0.2952.71 is available
Update stream: Stable
System: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (x86_64; Unity)
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36 OPR/54.0.2952.64Not working videos FB etc.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by leocg
Maybe this will be helpful: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-launches-snap-linux-users/ and https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-54-0-2952-71-stable-update/
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A Former User last edited by
@messweb You should check the version of
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra. Since you're using Opera 54, which is based on Chrome 67, you need to make sure that the codecs are also at version 67.@leocg Interesting idea, but I'm not sure how packaging Opera snaps is going to help with codec issues. As far as I understand it's still Canonical who publishes codec snaps, and Opera still has no control when it happens.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@denisftw See https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-launches-snap-linux-users/#comment-4018305223
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A Former User last edited by
@denisftw
Package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 4306
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Architecture: amd64
Source: chromium-browser
Version: 68.0.3440.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Replaces: chromium-browser (<< 44), chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)I didnt't install it
@denisftw said in Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
