Opera cannot play certain videos on latest version of Kubuntu 19.10

[A Former User]

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@jimunderscorep I've already installed snap versions of both Chromium browser and ffmpeg codecs as well. But Opera is not able to play certain videos.

I hope the developers have a plan on "working" with snap versions of ffmpeg codecs for Ubuntu 19.10 & later...

[A Former User]

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Open html5test.com and post a screenshot of what it says as supported under the video section.

[A Former User]

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As it seems, the opera snap does not find the chromium ffmpeg codecs snap, thus the lack of h264 support.
Since I do not use snaps, take a moment to read this thread and find out what is wrong via the snap interfaces and the snap connect command.

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

[A Former User]

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@jimunderscorep I don't think my Opera installation version is snap. I installed Opera through the regular .deb file.

How do I find if my Opera version is snap?

Will go through the thread and see if I can figure out. But honestly, I may just wait till the devs come up with a solution from their end. If they don't, then I will probably use Opera for its VPN service and switch over to Chromium for other browsing needs.

[l33t4opera]

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Hi @burner2000, in that case (regular .deb), you can try to install the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_77.0.3865.120 using this link, or if you want, you can add the repo: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu disco main , since there's no pkgs for Eoan (19.10), and install the package using apt.

Regarding the snap version of the current Opera stable. It should work, if you really install both: the Opera and the lib from the snap, tought it has connection to old version of the lib:

snap connections opera | grep ffmpeg
content[chromium-ffmpeg-93464]  opera:chromium-ffmpeg-93464     chromium-ffmpeg:chromium-ffmpeg-93464

Which means, the version of Chromium 73.0.3683.75.

[l33t4opera]

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@burner2000 Regarding:

How do I find if my Opera version is snap?
Go to opera:about, scroll down to "Paths", and if the paths contains "snap" word, it's the snap version.

[A Former User]

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Guys, thanks for the replies. I will try installing the snap version later on and see if it resolves the issue.

[A Former User]

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I installed the snap version of Opera (after purging the existing installed one) and H.264 videos seem to be working again.

However, Kubuntu denies me access when I am trying to upload files other than in Home location. Permission is denied when trying to access any of my other mounted drives. Tried to look up the issue online and it seems like a feature of snap. People had suggested work arounds but it sounded complicated.

But the above is something I can live with.

Thanks again for the replies & help guys.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by A Former User

@burner2000 said in Opera cannot play certain videos on latest version of Kubuntu 19.10:

Kubuntu denies me access when I am trying to upload files other than in Home location. Permission is denied when trying to access any of my other mounted drives. Tried to look up the issue online and it seems like a feature of snap.

Snap apps can not access everything on the filesystem. They have permissions etc. Look up on how to set snap permissions.

Since you are the first 19.10 user with the codecs issue here, I would like to thank you for taking the time to test and verify all that. Conclusion: if you are on ubuntu 19.10 and later, the opera snap + the chromium ffmpeg codecs snap is the only way to have an opera that supports all video formats. And the ones to blame for that situation are the ubuntu devs that have stopped providing deb versions of chromium and its "family" of packages.
This also makes the faq stuff on the post on my signature obsolete.

p.s. I am bookmarking your thread for future reference, e.g. in 6 months that everyone will install or upgrade to 20.04, the forum will be flooded with issues like yours.

[A Former User]

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@jimunderscorep Happy to help.

I will try to look up on setting snap permissions.

[johnnyboycurtis]

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Hello,

I've created an article addressing the issues created by the newest version of Ubuntu 19.10. Please follow the link https://forums.opera.com/topic/36229/widevine-h-264-support-on-ubuntu-19-10