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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

      @stefanw1337 I guess that is exactly because your are using the snap version. Did you try the regular version?

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      • stefanw1337
        stefanw1337 @leocg last edited by

        @leocg Snap is the regular version, for the everyday user? At least, that's what the store installed for me. The other store was upgraded at some point to the "Snap Store".

        I haven't been testing that much, as you can see the folders are the same as before. But when I went to check for DRM, it said it had widevide, so I suppose it's fine.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

          @stefanw1337 Snap is one of the ways to install Opera on Linux. There are also the Deb and RPM packages.

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          • stefanw1337
            stefanw1337 @leocg last edited by stefanw1337

            @leocg I know, which is what I did to install the non-snap version(dpkg). But shouldn't the easier option have the most mainstream options and choices for the "normal" more casual user? You know, those new to linux?

            Edit: seems more software is weird on snap. For instance Spotify.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

              To get the snap version of Opera to use proprietary codecs, I guess you need to do something special. I don't know the details, but https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+ffmpeg+codecs+extra+snap+package might help. The snap-provided codecs must be built for the version of Chromium Opera uses just like with the non-snap version. Then, for Widevine, you might have to do something similar. https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+widevine+snap might help.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @stefanw1337 last edited by

                @stefanw1337 To fix this on new Opera installations just copy lib: libffmpeg.so to the Opera directory.Terminal command: sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

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                • fonm
                  fonm last edited by fonm

                  archlinux

                  opera --version 68.0.3618.165
                  
                  locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg
                  /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
                  /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
                  /usr/lib/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json
                  
                  file /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
                  /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=ce701d11f0356081f48723c46e39da4607b6b87b, stripped
                  
                  file /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
                  /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
                  
                  du -h /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
                  1,7M	/usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
                  
                  du -h /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
                  4,3M	/usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
                  
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                  • stefanw1337
                    stefanw1337 @fonm last edited by

                    @fonm I mean, good for you?

                    $ locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg

                    And for the sake of sudo:
                    $ sudo locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg

                    Nothing. This with both snap and non-snap installed.

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                    • stefanw1337
                      stefanw1337 @Guest last edited by stefanw1337

                      @kalebesouza said in Widevine and Opera:

                      @stefanw1337 To fix this on new Opera installations just copy lib: libffmpeg.so to the Opera directory.Terminal command: sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

                      $ sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/
                      cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so': No such file or directory

                      $ find . libffmpeg.so | grep libffmpeg.so
                      find: ‘libffmpeg.so’: No such file or directory

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

                        @stefanw1337 Do you have Chromium installed?

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                        • stefanw1337
                          stefanw1337 @leocg last edited by

                          @leocg Chrome, yes.

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

                            @stefanw1337 And did you check if the installation directory is that one?

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User @stefanw1337 last edited by

                              @stefanw1337 Make sure you installed the package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra. Usually this package is installed together with the ubuntu-restricted-extras package

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                              • bobsteel
                                bobsteel @stefanw1337 last edited by

                                @stefanw1337
                                clearly you have not got ‘libffmpeg.so installed so how can you expect things to work . Go find it and install it . maybe it got coerrupted or lost somehow

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