Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play

A Former User

Well it is not ridiculous, considering that opera can not offer proprietary codecs and has to rely on some other package for the job. I respect that because I know what other browsers do for the same reason, eg firefox uses a lib provided by cisco (libopenh264) to play h264 content.

What is really bad is opera lagging behind chromium's releases, as I describe here
https://forums.opera.com/topic/31346/what-still-bugs-me-in-opera-on-linux-and-in-general/9

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Agree, don't know why Opera lags so in this respect in not keeping up with chromium's releases. Firefox and Chrome have no problems here. Also have Vivaldi which as of now also does not play videos, guess they lag also.

Recall there was a fix in the past for this issue where code was given that allowed you to remove; 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 73' and reinstall 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 71' for a quick fix until Opera fixed this issue. Is that option still around and will it still work now?

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @cybrsaylr

Maybe because they need to do lots of adaptations, lots of tests, etc?

A Former User @cybrsaylr

@cybrsaylr said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Recall there was a fix in the past for this issue where code was given that allowed you to remove; 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 73' and reinstall 'chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 71' for a quick fix until Opera fixed this issue. Is that option still around and will it still work now?

You can. The problem is where will you get chromium ffmpeg codecs 71 now that they are not on the repo. If you find the package for version 71, remove the one you currently have (v73), install the other one by hand and then ask apt to put it on hold like so

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

so that it won't get upgraded to 73 next time apt updates your system. And remember to remove the hold with

sudo apt-mark unhold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

once opera is updated to a newer version, hopefully 60.

SilverFox66

SilverFox66 @Guest

@jimunderscorep said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Well it is not ridiculous, considering that opera can not offer proprietary codecs and has to rely on some other package for the job.

It is ridiculous, when someone takes something that is functioning, and knowingly breaks it by releasing a new version that is lacking in something, and therefore breaking it. Either wait till the proprietary codecs are readily available (that your software depends on) to release the new version, or handle it differently like everyone else. So yes, it IS ridiculous at this point and has been going on far too long.

A Former User

Well, opera did not break something, because they do not package chromium ffmpeg codecs in general. Neither ubuntu broke it, because they had to update the browser to its latest version.
Plus, that issue only affects ubuntu and ubuntu based distros. For the rest of us on debian/fedora/arch/mageia etc nothing broke, because it was never an issue, due to the lack of chromium ffmpeg codecs by our distros. Opera's html support was poor and remained poor.

A Former User @Guest

@jimunderscorep said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Opera's h264 support was poor and remained poor.

Typo here

A Former User

Sorry,
i will stop use Opera.
Is not possible to lose so many hours to do nothing with videos....

nexayq

nexayq

Please read the following solution, it helped me out: https://askubuntu.com/a/1091454/242730

# Check if you are able to open HTML5 H.264 videos
    https://www.youtube.com/html5

# If not - do the following
    Get "0.35.4-linux-x64.zip" or newer version from:
     https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/

# Extract "libffmpeg.so" from archive
    > unzip 0.35.4-linux-x64.zip

# Create directory "lib_extra" in opera and copy "libffmpeg.so" there
    > sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra
    > sudo cp libffmpeg.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra

# Restart Opera and check YouTube HTML5 link again
    https://www.youtube.com/html5

A Former User

Snap version doesn't work too, but it should be free from deps issues...

A Former User

@the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Snap version doesn't work too, but it should be free from deps issues...

Probably because of this
https://forums.opera.com/topic/31504/broken-autoconnection-with-chromium-ffmpeg-in-snap-version

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Well my easy solution for playing all videos until Opera gets up to speed here, is to use either Firefox or Chrome which have NONE of these chronic video issues Opera can't seem to rectify.

A Former User @cybrsaylr

@cybrsaylr Used to I took Firefox for videos but they did something that it slows down my notebook during watching videos.

So I changed to opera but now I have the same problem with opera too. Don't know what they changed that it happens with Opera too.

Seems I need change to Vivaldi now. Vivaldi still does its job without slowing down my notebook.

*sighs

A Former User

For future reference, i.e. for the time opera's version catches up with today's chromium ffmpeg codec's version and you will all be able to watch h264 content again.

Install the h264ify extension to force youtube use h264 instead of webm for its videos. H264 is hardware accelerated, webm is not, so your gpu will do all the hard work if needed, resulting in a smoother playback.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal

A Former User @Guest

@jimunderscorep said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

For future reference, i.e. for the time opera's version catches up with today's chromium ffmpeg codec's version and you will all be able to watch h264 content again.

Install the h264ify extension to force youtube use h264 instead of webm for its videos. H264 is hardware accelerated, webm is not, so your gpu will do all the hard work if needed, resulting in a smoother playback.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal

Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

A Former User @Guest

@the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

“Our goal is to have a Stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second, when possible. As we found out time and again, any sort of GPU acceleration has a lot of maintenance associated with it, between the multitude of configurations our users run, the general lack of quality of drivers (in particular on Linux), and the constant stream of incoming issue due to new hardware, driver, or distribution release.”

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@catha said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

@cybrsaylr Used to I took Firefox for videos but they did something that it slows down my notebook during watching videos.

So I changed to opera but now I have the same problem with opera too. Don't know what they changed that it happens with Opera too.

Seems I need change to Vivaldi now. Vivaldi still does its job without slowing down my notebook.

*sighs

Have Vivaldi and liked it because it was pretty solid but right now Vivaldi won't play videos either just like Opera won't play videos.

Firefox and Chrome play videos fine with no issues.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @cybrsaylr

Both have a license that allows them to play media with proprietary codecs without depending on the system.

A Former User @Guest

@adasiko said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

@the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

“Our goal is to have a Stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second, when possible. As we found out time and again, any sort of GPU acceleration has a lot of maintenance associated with it, between the multitude of configurations our users run, the general lack of quality of drivers (in particular on Linux), and the constant stream of incoming issue due to new hardware, driver, or distribution release.”

These bugs are about video acceleration as whole, not specifically about VP8/9. If Chromium doesn't use GPU on Linux, then h264 will be eating CPU as well.

gseva

gseva @nexayq

@nexayq
Solution is simpler than this one.
You already have needed library on your system.

dpkg -S libffmpeg.so

chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
opera-stable: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig

ln -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so