[Solved]Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego See this topic

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@leocg That thread is confusing for me. As I said, I am a novice with respect to Linux. I may just have to content myself with Vivaldi until a clear solution is found.

Thank you, though.

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YouTube videos do not work in Opera, either.

Finally, I cannot even use Opera to reply in this thread. I have to use Vivaldi.

Opera is nice, but limited ... and frankly not very user-friendly with respect to these things on Linux/Chromebook.

That's too bad, I guess.

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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego A snap package would only work with another snap, sorry. Though as you mentioned Vivaldi, you could use their codecs with Opera. Though it does seem strange to have to tell people to install another browser to get Opera to work ...

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@sgunhouse said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

@treego A snap package would only work with another snap, sorry. Though as you mentioned Vivaldi, you could use their codecs with Opera. Though it does seem strange to have to tell people to install another browser to get Opera to work ...

I don't know how to use Vivaldi's codecs with Opera. This is all very "Greek" to me, honestly.

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@treego What Linux distro is being used?

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@leocg I don't know, honestly. Whatever Chromebook uses ... that is all I can say.

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@treego I would start by trying to install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra for Chromium 89.

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@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

@treego I would start by trying to install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra for Chromium 89.

I have tried it to no avail ... I could be doing it wrong, possibly, though because I am a lifelong Windows user. This is my first experimentation with Linux on a new Chromebook.

P.S. I just installed Brave for Linux on Chromebook and like Vivaldi it has no issues playing videos like Opera does.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego Maybe you can try the instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config

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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @leocg last edited by

@leocg The Linux that is available for Chromebooks is called Crestini or something similar; I'd never heard of it before nor in any other context since. The package for Debian or Ubuntu should work as long as you get the right architecture.

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@leocg I appreciate your replies, but your links lead me to things that are very confusing for someone who has no experience with Linux commands ... extracting zip files, etc.

It just seems super strange that Brave and Vivaldi have no issues, but Opera does.

Opera needs to "up" its game here, I think.

Thank you for your efforts to help me, though.

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@sgunhouse Thank you, but what does "architecture" mean in this context?

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I finally got the bright idea to go to opera://about and found this about my system: System:Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (x86_64; Unknown)

Does that help in getting help from you that are willing to help me?

Oh, also: Version:75.0.3969.93

And: Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/75.0.3969.93
Paths
Install: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Profile: /home/treego14/.config/opera

Cache: /home/treego14/.cache/opera

Installation type
Could only be specified for Windows OS

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego Try copying libffmpeg.so from Vivaldi directory to Opera directory.

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@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

@treego Try copying libffmpeg.so from Vivaldi directory to Opera directory.

Which directory? The Install directory? The Profile directory? The Cache directory?

I don't even know how to access the file directory system on a Chromebook, yet ... hmmm ...

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego the install one. You need to replace the file that comes with Opera with the new one.

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@leocg said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

@treego the install one. You need to replace the file that comes with Opera with the new one.

I am sorry ... I am lost ... I am not following you on this at all. Maybe it's past my bedtime.

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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

@treego Oh, you actually have an x86_64 (64-bit Intel processor), I'm used to seeing ARM processors in Chromebooks. The type of processor (in your case x86_64) is the system architecture. No idea if you can copy the file though as you'd need root access.

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@sgunhouse said in Can you tell me how to get Opera for Linux on Chromebook to play Twitter videos?:

@treego Oh, you actually have an x86_64 (64-bit Intel processor), I'm used to seeing ARM processors in Chromebooks. The type of processor (in your case x86_64) is the system architecture. No idea if you can copy the file though as you'd need root access.

Yeah ... I cannot find the file. I feel as though I am searching with both eyes closed, though.