The Videos Don't Play Topic

Cupid-101

Cupid-101

Hi, I can't load any video except videos on youtube, I have looked it up, but I still have no idea, I have tried turning off the hardware acceleration in Settings, but it didn't work.
I have to use Linux OS due to my low configuration (I'm using an old laptop), and I'm not an expert in technology or code. I can play videos on other browsers such as Chrome, Firefox; but my computer runs faster on Opera. Can the videos be played if I install an older version (but I don't know how to install it, too)? I'm stuck right now, please help me. Thanks in advance for any help.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Cupid-101

@cupid-101 Check above.

miyen

miyen @xZero

@xzero that does not work to me,

have to check few more codecs from here - http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/?C=M;O=A

currently working only with the codec from "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_94.0.4606.81-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb"

My PC is:
Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon / kernel 5.4.0-89-generic
Opera 80.0.4170.72
i5-2500k CPU,

i386 codecs does not work to me.

Regards

MarcoRboels

MarcoRboels

Easy solution via Terminal (rooted):

$ sudo snap install chromium-ffmpeg

$ sudo cp /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-104195/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

I chose 104195 version because is the only one workable over Opera version 80.0.4170.72 and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (x86_64; LXQt)

styen

styen @Cupid-101

@cupid-101 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/

luisandriy

luisandriy @styen

@styen Cheers mate, that really helped, now Opera works.

dperecky

dperecky

Good News! Found a site that talks about the old Opera, the substitution of the libffmpeg.so file fix, and a workaround.

[link text]https://newbedev.com/opera-your-browser-does-not-currently-recognize-any-of-the-video-formats-available(link url)

As far as full disclosure - I have not followed the steps... so as usual: YMMV. I've been using a different browser of late. Looks promising though.

HTH.

tridoxx

tridoxx

I do not understand, because this browser, with all its advantages, innovative, and so good, has not been able to solve the problem of multimedia reproduction on the libffmpeg library, many users use this great browser, but I am already tired of every time update, I have to replace the file, with so many developers, and being a large company, they still don't give a solution to that, I love the browser and when I was on windows I used up to gx and on my mobile I have the browser, but how is it possible that they still cannot fix the problem of multimedia reproduction as direct, or videos on facebook or twitter, is there something the community can do to fix this definitively ?.
I, like many of us, want to use the browser in a normal way as in other operating systems Thank you so much

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tridoxx

@tridoxx As said many times, that's a legal issue. So developers can't do much about it.

Karunur

Karunur @truden

@truden said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

@PixCatholica, I did some research and replaced libffmpeg.so with the one I downloaded from https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download
Download the Tutuapp package, find libffmpeg.so in it and extract it.
Open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (this path may vary) click with right mouse button on "opera" folder and "Open as Root". Replace the libffmpeg.so with the new file.
Now you can play videos.

Thanks for your advice; I have the same problem with playing videos, but your solution works for me as well.

A Former User @Guest

@zarathustra-f90 it works for me, too.
debian 11
ubuntu 21.10

thank you.

Dark-2011111

Dark-2011111 @MarcoRboels

@marcorboels thanks, it's work...

nathaniel

nathaniel @MarcoRboels

@marcorboels thank you very much, it's working great!

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Opera 81.0.4196.54

john-53

john-53 @styen

@styen said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

@cupid-101 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/

This worked for me on Opera 81.0.4196.60 on Linux Mint 20.2

Hopefully it will seamlessly update itself after each Opera update.

clafix

clafix

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.

john-53

john-53 @clafix

@clafix said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.

I'm using the same Opera version but I can't find the #use-angle flag.

styen

styen @john-53

@john-53 said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

@clafix said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.

I'm using the same Opera version but I can't find the #use-angle flag.

It's only in windows version.

linuc

linuc

Hi

Since the latest update of Opera some websites crash again. Here's an example:

example

It seems like this fix is no longer working properly at the moment:

https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

styen

styen @linuc

@linuc which version of Opera you have? Latest 0.59 version of ffmpeg works only with Opera 82 and crashes with Opera 81. 0.58 works with 81, but crashes with 82.

linuc

linuc @styen

@styen

I have 81.0.4196.60. Update was coming yesterday, for Q4OS. I will try now to update out of Opera.