Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Im having the same issues, along with Dailymotion videos not working at all "Try updating your browser, or use a different one".
Also, Nicotine is not working properly. It says theres an error due to Upnp support.
This all came about when I updated to Linux Mint 19. So far, no help from the Update Manager.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Good news everyone!
Opera 56 reached stable, so it should work with chromium ffmpeg codecs 69, so please do your upgrades and may the "broken html5/h264 support" whining stop for September.
Thank you

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here's answer why OPERA don't play videos.

[MGSMSobuj]

MGSMSobuj last edited by

I solved the problem by updating my opera. My current version is 56.0.3051.43. If anyone has the same issue then go to https://www.opera.com/browser download the latest version(.deb) install it.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hey, it's that time of the month again!
You know, the one that chromium gets updated from upstream, and a few days later distro's upgrade their chromium related packages.
After that, ubuntu users flood the forum whining that opera is broken again.

Please be patient

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

any update on this?
It kind suck

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Since nothing has changed, either on opera's side (support for more proprietary codecs) or on the sites' side (support of a different or open format, eg webm), things remain the same.
In fact, I think it would be reasonable to say you should not expect a change in the years to come.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

Download one of these:
https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases
And put it into /usr/lib64/opera
Overwrite if if there's the same file already

[nelsinchi]

nelsinchi last edited by

I have fixed the issue in my Arch Linux by installing opera-ffmpeg-codecs. I hope this helps to others.

[A Former User]

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

tihs happened to me and i codunt find any solution for opera .so i uninstalled opera and installed opera -beta or opera developer version instead ..both works properly without any problems playing all videos..

[remitico]

remitico @Guest last edited by

@toof Thanks a lot, your solution works perfectly and you saved my time!

[remitico]

remitico @Guest last edited by

@toof On Ubuntu the path is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@toof This also fixed my issue after literally trying everything else and spending days trying to fix this. Thank you OP!

[damianw345]

damianw345 last edited by

I've created script to automate a bit this thing, which @toof mentioned. It's written for Ubuntu and specific version to be downloaded but you can reassign the values as you need.

#!/bin/bash

zip_name=0.35.4-linux-x64.zip
dir_to_unzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.35.4/$zip_name -q --show-progress

sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

rm $zip_name

[damianw345]

damianw345 @damianw345 last edited by

@damianw345
Sorry but I couldn't find the edit comment option.

I've updated the script to always download latest version.

#!/bin/bash

latest_version_url=$(curl https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/latest -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}')
latest_version=${latest_version_url##*/}

zip_name="$latest_version-linux-x64.zip"

dir_to_unzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

cd /tmp 
wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/$latest_version/$zip_name -q --show-progress

sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

rm $zip_name

[alexs]

alexs @damianw345 last edited by

My script for me (Debian/sid):

#!/bin/sh
# https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download

lib_opera=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
dl_url=http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/
dl_package=chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
dl_deb=_73.0.3683.86-0ubuntu0.18.10.1_amd64.deb  # modify the version number

tmpfolder=/tmp/${dl_package}
mkdir -p ${tmpfolder}

wget ${dl_url}${dl_package}${dl_deb} -P ${tmpfolder}
cd ${tmpfolder}

ar -x ${dl_package}${dl_deb}
tar -xJf data.tar.xz

# with sudo
sudo cp ${tmpfolder}/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so ${lib_opera}/libffmpeg.so

# without sudo but run the script as root
# cp ${tmpfolder}/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so ${lib_opera}/libffmpeg.so

cd ..
rm -r ${tmpfolder}

[A Former User]

A Former User @damianw345 last edited by

@damianw345 your script worked for me. Thank you very much!

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

If you came for Centos 7, just run this:

#!/bin/bash

latest_version_url=$(curl https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/latest -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}')
latest_version=${latest_version_url##*/}

zip_name="$latest_version-linux-x64.zip"

dir_to_unzip=/usr/lib64/opera

cd /tmp 
wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/$latest_version/$zip_name -q

sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

rm $zip_name