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    The Videos Don't Play Topic

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    • tstowshin
      tstowshin @Guest last edited by

      @vikk4 witch os are you using?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

        @tstowshin Maybe Facebook is just blocking Opera? Can you watch videos in other pages?

        Also see https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic/

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

          @tstowshin

          I'm using linux mint 19 & 20.
          Mint 19 Opera is working fine and mint 20 which I just installed, Opera has the problem.
          A look at .config/opera for mint 19 shows that pepper and widevines are installed, while mint 20 has no pepper dir and widevines looks like a rudimentary basic form.

          Can I just copy my whole .config/opera file from 19 to 20?

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          • tstowshin
            tstowshin @leocg last edited by

            @leocg I can only watch videos from youtube

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            • tstowshin
              tstowshin @Guest last edited by

              @vikk4 I am using kali linux and I don't know what to do now

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              • burnout426
                burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

                @tstowshin You can read through this post to see what's involved in setting up video playback in Opera for Linux.

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                • tstowshin
                  tstowshin @burnout426 last edited by

                  @burnout426 bruh that's too much complicated

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                  • burnout426
                    burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

                    @tstowshin The post is wordy for detail reasons. But, the gist of it is to create a folder named "lib_extra", download the right libffmpeg.so file and put it in the lib_extra folder.

                    In opera://about, what version of Chromium does it say your Opera is using and what does it say for the "install" path? We can link you do the right file.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

                      @burnout426
                      mange takk,

                      I followed a similar set of instructions, but it did not work.
                      I used 52.2 which is for chrom 89, but my chromium is 90 and dist 54 is for chromium 91. It has no linux dist. So I was looking into how to compile the source code.
                      Luckily there was an Opera update, this morning that fixed my problem and I now can play videos again.

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                      • jazardly
                        jazardly last edited by

                        Had this issue yesterday and fixed it by copying the libffmpeg.so from chromium, but the devs managed to make it worse today somehow and now this solution doesn't fix it. I went from Twitch and Twitter videos not working to everything playing again, back to Twitch and Twitter not playing but also Youtube livestreams not playing

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                        • MaximB
                          MaximB last edited by

                          Having the same issue...
                          No videos on Facebook, but Youtube works fine.
                          If Opera is now based on Google Chrome, why does it have new problems that Chrome doesn't have, and why the Devs ignore such major problems?

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer @MaximB last edited by

                            @maximb Opera is not based on Chrome, but both are based on Chromium.

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer @MaximB last edited by

                              @maximb Did you try the solutions?

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                              • MaximB
                                MaximB @leocg last edited by

                                @leocg I read in this topic that the solutions stopped working.
                                so I didn't try it.

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                                • BorealDesign
                                  BorealDesign last edited by

                                  Same problem in Fedora 34, facebook videos does not play

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                                  • BorealDesign
                                    BorealDesign @leocg last edited by

                                    @leocg Please, I'm new in this forum, (long user fedora linux and about 4 months using opera). Could you tell me where are the solutions. Videos working just for youtube. Anyewhere else (Canva, Facebook, twitter,...). I'm webdesigner and videomaker, without this opera is unuseless for me. I'm working for months only with Opera. Please, tell me it was not a very big mistake. How can I solve this. The upgrade to fedora 34 was ok, the problem came after this, in a opera browser update. Can you help me, please? Thank you

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @BorealDesign last edited by

                                      @borealdesign In this topic you can find some, as well as a link to the main topic about the subject, that also contains some solutions.

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                                      • useropera2021
                                        useropera2021 last edited by leocg

                                        Problem: Video/streaming on websites can't start/don't work with Opera for Linux till now

                                        Linux: Please help for Opera 76 (for Linux) for streaming and video support like with Chromium 91 Browser (for Linux)

                                        Easier Streaming, video and flash(switch on/off) support (HTML 5/Flash) like with Chromium Browser 91 (for Linux):

                                        Please help supporting for Opera for Linux (in further Opera for Linux settings eventually possible to switch on (flash) streaming and video possibilities as option, or as addon ?) like with Chromium 91 (for Linux) with Flash and Streaming possibiltiy for internet streaming and video sites like Zattoo.com, wilmaa.com and also on dvd trailer sites (links below).

                                        Many thanks !

                                        Kind regards

                                        mailing17@yahoo.com

                                        Links:

                                        http://zattoo.com

                                        http://www.dvdtrailertube.com

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                                        • leocg
                                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @useropera2021 last edited by

                                          @useropera2021 See above

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                                          • efsandino
                                            efsandino @vladimir-bardakov last edited by

                                            @vladimir-bardakov I installed the extra lib, and then downloaded the last version of opera and installed it again with ,
                                            sudo dpkg -i operaXXX.deb

                                            and the problem was finally solved !

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