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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      any update on this?
      It kind suck 😞

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      • 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.

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        • 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

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          • 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.

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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..

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                  • remitico
                    remitico @Guest last edited by

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

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                    • remitico
                      remitico @Guest last edited by

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

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                      • 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!

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                        • 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

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                          • 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
                            
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                            • 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}
                              
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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User @damianw345 last edited by

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

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                                • 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
                                  
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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                    @unsalkorkmaz said in Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint:

                                    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
                                    

                                    Thanks, this also works in fedora 31

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                                    • ferroao
                                      ferroao last edited by

                                      I think chromium solutions do not work any more, for being based on snaps now.
                                      I did: sudo cp /usr/share/discord/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

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                                      • nelsinchi
                                        nelsinchi @ferroao last edited by

                                        @ferroao Hi, make sure you have opera-ffmpeg-codecs installed, I only need to install opera plus that package in my Arch Linux and it works successfully.

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          Facebook was not playing videos. other browsers were playing the videos (chrome, firefox,). fixed by downloading Opera messenger add on

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