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

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

A Former User @gseva

@gseva

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:

libffmpeg.so

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

libffmpeg.so

from user/lib/chromium-browser

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:

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...

A Former User

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.

cybrsaylr

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.

fornero

fornero

Opera Version: 58.0.3135.127 Opera is up to date but some Videos don't play

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Well I have an interim solution until Opera 58 corrects this chronic video issue. My main PC has a couple extra drives on it with older versions on Linux and they still have the older Opera 56 version that plays all vids fine. Don't believe Opera lets you go back to older Opera versions anymore but I have them. Just will make sure NOT to upgrade Opera 56 while running this older version and I'm good to go.

A Former User

My problem is that I can't find the opera libffmpeg file. I can't even find the opera folder in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
I tried to find a opera/libfmpeg.so structure. the only place I could find one/two was at ./snap/opera/{31/30}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so. But if I try to cd to there I can only get to ./snap/opera/30 but no further as there doesn't seam to be anything in the directory.
So how do I get the correct libffmpeg.so file?
the "good" ffmpeg.so file from chromium I can find in the right directory( /usr/lib/chromium-browser)
some requisit information:
Ubuntu 18.10
I currently have opera (58.0.3....) aswell as opera-beta(60.0.3....) and even opera-dev (61.0.3) installed.
therefore i would expect there to be more then 2 libffmpeg.so files associated with opera. So should I remove the beta and dev branch?