FFMPEG installation instructions

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Thanks for your answers!

It sounds like it might be useful to have some instructions on the Opera website about (or an automated script that does this, assuming that this does not breach the legal restrictions), since it's a frequent issue (and it's pushing away some Opera users). It looks like the Python script in this repo seems to be doing exactly that: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt

As far as I'm personally concerned, the solution of running the script from iteufel's repo seems to work for me.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I see that the script makes use of https://nwjs.io/versions.json to figure out what version of the Chromium source to work with.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

Sorry for digging an old thread, but I just stumbled upon this issue while trying to watch a video from https://lbry.tv on Linux Mint 19.2 with Opera 68 Stable.

Finding the correct libffmpeg.so fixed it. Many thanks.

[fabz00]

fabz00 last edited by

I had video issue updating Linux Mint from 19.3 to 20.
Upgrade process discarted Opera Dev, I reinstalled v.71.0.3742.0 but I got in trouble with video reproduction.
https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/tag/0.31.5
solved for me.
Thanx

[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

[devtiagofranca]

devtiagofranca last edited by

# Ubuntu/Debian or based
# Install package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

sudo apt install -y chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

## Make a link
sudo ln -sf /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-103551/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[asandikci]

asandikci last edited by

@burnout426 this really solved my problem, I hope there won't be a problem abt it anymore. I can now open youtube live videos or videos in other sites that I couldn't open it before. Really Thanks

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @asandikci last edited by

@asandikci For future reference, the info is at https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config.

[rickjfer]

rickjfer @RungeKutta last edited by

@rungekutta Great!!!

[paultatarenko]

paultatarenko @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thank you!
You saved my mind. New Opera One is a new piece of shit only.

[SETedesque]

SETedesque @RungeKutta last edited by

@rungekutta fix my problem, now opera runs like charm!

[rephila]

rephila last edited by

1. Try t o download https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.85.0/0.85.0-linux-x64.zip or the latest build from this repository

2. extract the .zip file for ubuntu

3. than use the command

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

4. restart opera

[narcuz]

narcuz @RungeKutta last edited by

@rungekutta Funciona!!..

[OperaBoomerang]

OperaBoomerang @devtiagofranca last edited by

@devtiagofranca said in FFMPEG installation instructions:

# Ubuntu/Debian or based
# Install package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

sudo apt install -y chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

## Make a link
sudo ln -sf /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-103551/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

!!Warning!!

I tried this and it broke my installation, so be careful if you try it. Initially, it just broke YouTube, which I was using for testing, but when I tried restarting the browser it would no longer launch. Foolishly, I didn't back up the original libffmpeg.so file in the opera folder, so I had to reinstall the whole package. Always take backups, folks!

[AdmiralRickHunter]

AdmiralRickHunter @devtiagofranca last edited by

@devtiagofranca This method fixed the FFMPEG H264/MP4 codec link to the Snap version of Chromium (the only method from Ubuntu 24.04 forward) and the Deb install of Opera. Thank you!!