Opera 54.0.2952.64 videos don't play

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Running,
Opera54.0.2952.64 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (x86_64; Unity)

Slipped up and updated to this Opera version, now all vids no longer play. Vids were playing fine before update.

Checked and have, chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-ex 68.0.3440.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 installed.
What is needed to get vids playing again?

zalex108

zalex108

Check out this and this.

If needed try on a clean profile:

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A Former User

Where did you get chromium codecs ffmpeg extra 68? It is not in the main ubuntu repo... Downgrade that to the latest 67 version and videos will work like they did.

Opera 54 is based on chromium 67. For more info please read the post on my signature.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Downgraded from 68 to the latest 67 version and videos play again.

Tried to remove that unofficial chrome repo that I believe gave me the 68 version chrome codec upgrade. Hope it does the trick.

A Former User @Guest

@jimunderscorep Seems like Ubuntu developers already pushed version 68 to the repository. I've just checked it:

$ apt-cache policy chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra:
  Installed: 67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
  Candidate: 68.0.3440.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Putting it on hold until a new Opera (version 55) is released:

$ sudo apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

A Former User

It took them 40+ days to package chromium 67 last month and now it took them less than a week to do it for chromium 68. They even beat the fedora and mageia maintainers to it. I am impressed, I admit it.

I am sure opera 55 will be out by the end of next week. I will post the rest of my complain to the other thread with the all whining about the broken html5 support, here
https://forums.opera.com/topic/27375/opera-54-0-2952-41-streaming-videos-don-t-work-anymore/

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Somehow V68 was installed again causing videos to stop playing again!
Couple days ago I removed v68, then v67 showed up in Synaptic Package Manager, installed v67 and all was fine till today. So I removed v68 again but this time v67 does not she again in Synaptic Package Manager, only v51 and v68 are shown!

What is the code to install v67 codec, to get videos to play again please?

A Former User

Provided that the repo can give you v67 of chromium ffmpeg codecs extra, this is how you install it
sudo apt-get install chromium-ffmpeg-codecs-extra=67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
And then put it on hold with the command mentioned above.

However, I think that there will be no v67 on the repo anymore, since chromium and its... company were all updated to v68, so all you can do is wait for opera 55 to reach stable.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@jimunderscorep
Just tried it and yep, it don't work!

Guess I'll just have to wait....

In the mean time using Chrome Firefox and Vivaldi which have no video problems.
Wish Opera would get this issue corrected.

A Former User

It seems that v67 is not available in the standard repositories.
I downloaded the codec from https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/+build/15115081/+files/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
And installed it using sudo dpkg -i file_name.deb which fixed the problem.
If you need another version just google chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 and you will find it in one of the launchpad.net links...

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@vimple
Thanks! That did the trick. Vids are playing again.

A Former User

For anyone who winds up here who uses Bionic 18.04 the download is here:
https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/+build/15115084/+files/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb

A Former User @cybrsaylr

@cybrsaylr Glad to have helped.
PS: Ubuntu does not seem to like this and is bothering me with cannot upgrade errors, which one can resolve by calling sudo apt -f install before each upgrade. And then installing the v67 back after the upgrade.
I tried holding the update but I still could not upgrade and had to unhold and upgrade (the codecs and other software altogether) and then downgrade the codecs.

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Bekkenes

Bekkenes @Guest

@vimple in case people need to do it from console:
Open terminal / ssh
cd /home/USERNAME/Downloads (or where you want download it to)
wget https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/+build/15115081/+files/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_67.0.3396.99-0ubuntu0.16.04.2_amd64.deb

But great tips, wish i looked here before i started spent a few hours figuring it out myself

A Former User

From the way I understand it, the libffmpeg.so file that Opera uses doesn't contain the proper codecs for certain videos. This is how I fixed it for KDE Neon (Ubuntu variant). Make sure you have the Chromium browser because this will break Opera in the process and you will need the Chromium libffmpeg.so file. Use this at your own risk.

sudo updatebd (update locate database if you never used it before)

sudo locate libffmpeg.so (shows location of all libffmpeg.so files)

sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so (removes the libffmpeg.so that Opera is using, if your results are different from the locate command then use that path)

sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/ (copy the Chromium libffmpeg.so into the Opera directory)