Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play
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A Former User last edited by
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 last edited by
@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
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A Former User last edited by
Sorry,
i will stop use Opera.
Is not possible to lose so many hours to do nothing with videos.... -
nexayq last edited by
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 last edited by
Snap version doesn't work too, but it should be free from deps issues...
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A Former User last edited by
@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 last edited by
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.
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A Former User last edited by
@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
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A Former User last edited by
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 last edited by A Former User
@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/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgalWhy VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@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.”
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cybrsaylr last edited by
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
@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.
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gseva last edited by
@nexayq
Solution is simpler than this one.
You already have needed library on your system.dpkg -S libffmpeg.sochromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
opera-stable: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.sosudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.origln -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so -
A Former User last edited by
Correct. This is the easiest solution and the one I have been using for quite a while now. To put it in plain words, for those that may not understand your commands, they can do this:
To Force Opera and Vivaldi to Play h.264 Files:
The file above must be replaced.
Opera's file is at user/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
Vivaldi's file is at opt/vivaldi/lib
and it must be replaced with
from user/lib/chromium-browser
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:
VP8/9. If Chromium doesn't use GPU
It's not simple... For VP9 GPU decoding in Chromium you needs modern Hardware (Intel GPU from 2016 or newer).
AMD and NVIDIA have many problems with it on Linux.And opera doesn't supoort it at all. Too many problems and bugs...
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A Former User last edited by
I had read an article a while ago about h264/5 vs vp8/9 and it said that one of the major reasons h264/5 is more widely spread is because it is backed by companies like intel and arm, thus it gets more attention I will post it when I find it.
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cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr
Updated to Vivaldi 2.4.1488.35 (Stable channel) (64-bit) a few hours ago and can happily report Videos now play fine on Vivaldi, along with videos playing fine on Firefox and Chrome.
Wish Opera could do the same.
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