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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Hello people!

      This codec is a hell of a lot and the team has been operating for years on end, doing nothing to permanently solve it. You don't even want to develop your own.

      In my experience, these codecs are much more worked on by the ArchLinux team that provide this codec update along with Opera updates.

      Already the infamous .Deb family Ubuntu, Debian and etc ... the updates of these codecs are never available, with this problem in the videos.

      After a lot of research and catching up with these problems in .DEB distributions, I found this command on the Forum MXLinux website that solved this error in 99.9%.

      It updates the Vivaldi base codec for Opera.

      Anyone who wants to try it, feel free.

      Follow the command below:

      "Definitive" solution for FFPMEG in the Opera browser:

      Source: ( https://mxlinux.org/wiki/applications/opera-tips-and-tricks/ )

      sudo -v; curl -L vvld.in/lm64 |tail -c+1075 | sudo tar xJ -C / --wildcards *libffmpeg.so --xform 's,.*/,usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/,'
      
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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by A Former User

        You will need to open the terminal (if you are using ubuntu or something like it and run these commands - my linux distro is 64 bits, so I downloaded the 64 bits file):

        H.264 support for Opera and openSUSE

        -----------------START COMMAND---------------

        curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.45.1/0.45.1-linux-x64.zip

        unzip 0.45.1-linux-x64.zip

        sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so

        sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig

        sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

        -------------END----------------

        Important 1: always acess https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/ in your browser to see the most recent version. Today it is the version 0.45.1 - in the future, you will have to change "0.45.1" in all command to the new version.

        Important 2: Save these command in a doc page or something else. Every new Opera browser version you will have to do it again in the terminal. Example: Updating from Opera 67 to 68. Normally when you update from Opera 67 to a new opera 67 version, you will not have to do this command again (sometimes yes). But from 67 to 68. Or 68 to 69 always.
        You can acess html5test.com and look for "H.264 support". If you see "yes" next to it. The command is working. If not, you will need to do it again.

        Important 3: After doing this command, you will need to close and open again the Opera browser to see everything works.

        Important 4: Do the first command, press ENTER. Do the second, press ENTER.... Do not try to copy and paste the 5 commands at the same time. I know that you know that, but I am just saying 🙂

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        • arbenek
          arbenek @Guest last edited by

          @g3nsvrv Hi, thanks for reply. I solved my problem with the following commands:

          wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/operao/files/libffmpeg.so
          sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so


          Pardus 19.1 GNU/Linux (Turkish dist)
          Opera 64.0.3417.54

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          • bobsteel
            bobsteel @Guest last edited by

            @empat Try running as root /usr/lib/opera/opera.bin pass it "--no-sandbox"

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            • darklyn3r
              darklyn3r @Guest last edited by

              @pinportal It worked pretty well on ArchLinux. It didn't have the direct x86_64-linux-gnu so run these commands.
              sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/libffmpeg_h264.so
              sudo mv /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig
              sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libffmpeg_h264.so /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
              Thank you very much

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              • wmomesso
                wmomesso @arbenek last edited by

                @arbenek Perfect!! My ubuntu 20.04 on install 2020-09-18 tanks!

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                • tahsin-npx
                  tahsin-npx last edited by

                  Hey! Also I had this same problem, can't play fb video's and youtube live video's. But finally fixed it by installing opera with snap.

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                  • quangpao
                    quangpao @Guest last edited by

                    @pinportal I first had to create a new opera account to thank to this guy.

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                    • johnbrook
                      johnbrook @quangpao last edited by

                      @quangpao Hello, I am pinportal, I lost my other account. Thank you for your thanks. Now I've discovered a much easier method for linux. Instead of downloading and installing the DEB package for Ubuntu, for example, you just install Opera from Snap. That is, open the terminal and type:

                      sudo snap install opera

                      It is necessary to uninstall the old package manually installed. Replace one with the other. In the case of installation via snap, video support works natively forever, even updating versions. It took me years to figure this out, but another user mentioned this a few weeks ago and so I figured it out.

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                      • darklyn3r
                        darklyn3r last edited by

                        If you are on any Arch Linux derivative distribution (eg Manjaro, BlackArch, Archcraft) you can choose to install the 'Opera' package from the official Arch Linux repositories using the commands 'sudo pacman -Syu opera' and 'sudo pacman -Syu opera-ffmpeg-codecs'. Of course you can also install it directly from your default package manager (in my case pamac.manager)

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                        • theflyonwheels
                          theflyonwheels @Guest last edited by

                          @g3nsvrv after update i have same issue no videos on facebook, did a lot of things, but when i tried your method it helped me. I changed libffmepeg.so file from Chromium browser, reloaded opera that's it, no issues. Thank you!

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                          • john-53
                            john-53 last edited by

                            I've had good luck with the instructions at this link. Each Opera update maintains the proper codec with this script for me.

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

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                            • eoliann
                              eoliann @Guest last edited by

                              Is work for Opera 100.0.4815.47

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                              • RungeKutta
                                RungeKutta last edited by

                                I create a script that install the broken library and fix the opera bug.

                                https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg

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