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    Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint

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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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