Opera can't play videos on Facebook

[bobsteel]

bobsteel @Guest last edited by

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

[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

[wmomesso]

wmomesso @arbenek last edited by

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

[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.

[quangpao]

quangpao @Guest last edited by

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

[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.

[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)

[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!

[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/

[eoliann]

eoliann @Guest last edited by

Is work for Opera 100.0.4815.47

[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