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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

      @pinportal It was already explained that they can't support proprietary codecs natively for legal reasons.

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        treego @leocg last edited by

        @leocg said in Opera 79 Stable:

        @pinportal It was already explained that they can't support proprietary codecs natively for legal reasons.

        How is that Brave and Vivaldi apparently support these proprietary codecs natively without violating laws?

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

          @treego Not sure, but it seems to run a script that gets the correct libffmpeg.so and copy into a place where Vivaldi can see it.

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          • treego
            treego @leocg last edited by

            @leocg said in Opera 79 Stable:

            @treego Not sure, but it seems to run a script that gets the correct libffmpeg.so and copy into a place where Vivaldi can see it.

            May I suggest Opera do the same?

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            • styen
              styen @treego last edited by

              @treego use this one https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

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              • cvm
                cvm last edited by

                Why is size of Opera 78 or 79 32bit launcher.exe about 3MB and 64bit about 40MB?
                Size of Opera 77 - 32bit launcher.exe was about 1.3MB and 64bit only 2.2MB.

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

                  @styen: we are very tired of using hacks, because Opera developers don't implement H.264 support natively in Linux (like Brave, Vivaldi and many others).

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

                    @treego: They are simply in the comfort zone. If Brave and Vivaldi did, it is possible to do so. But the truth is that Opera's developers don't want to do it. When they start to lose millions of linux users, it will be too late.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @treego last edited by

                      @treego Not sure if Opera could do it. Also, if the file take a long time to be released, what Opera should do? Should Opera keep holding the release for Linux?

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                      • styen
                        styen @Guest last edited by

                        @pinportal said in Opera 79 Stable:

                        @treego: They are simply in the comfort zone. If Brave and Vivaldi did, it is possible to do so. But the truth is that Opera's developers don't want to do it. When they start to lose millions of linux users, it will be too late.

                        Their developers may reside in different countries with different patent laws

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

                          @styen It can be too, but in this case, then it's easier for the entire linux community that uses the Opera browser to migrate to others that already support the h.264 codec natively (Google Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Vivaldi,...). That's what I did, I migrated to Brave. It's not my fault if Opera is in Norway. I just can't be forced to do these workarounds to install the third-party codec via Terminal with each new Opera update. This is very tiring.

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                          • treego
                            treego @styen last edited by

                            @styen said in Opera 79 Stable:

                            @treego use this one https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

                            Thank you, @styen !!! 🙂

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                            • buteomont
                              buteomont @alexs last edited by

                              @alexs The link is 404. Where else can I get the file?

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                              • shadow118
                                shadow118 last edited by

                                Is there a flag to revert the downloads back to browser downoloads instead of the Downloads folder?

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @shadow118 last edited by

                                  @shadow118 What do you mean? You can change the default download directory if it's what you are asking.

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                                  • shadow118
                                    shadow118 last edited by

                                    @leocg This got me confused "You can set it to show not just recently downloaded files from Opera Browser, but from the downloads folder for your computer."

                                    When I clicked the downloads button, it showed the contents of my Downloads folder, and not just the files I had downloaded through Opera. But after clearing the list, I guess that's not really a problem anymore

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                                    • leocg
                                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @shadow118 last edited by

                                      @shadow118 That's is about Easy Files, that pop-up that shows up with your most recent downloaded files when you are trying to upload something to a page.

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                                      • thelittlebrowserthatcould
                                        thelittlebrowserthatcould @buteomont last edited by

                                        @buteomont: Look in https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/ for the current codecs file, which is https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/opera-beta-ffmpeg-codecs-94.0.4606.41-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          Why is there no longer a keyboard shortcut in the address bar for the "paste and call/search" function?
                                          -> Ctrl+Shift+V

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                                          • l33t4opera
                                            l33t4opera @shadow118 last edited by

                                            @shadow118 Perhaps you mean this one? "opera:flags/#easy-files-downloads-folder".

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