Video does not play

[jtgd]

jtgd last edited by

I would like to use Opera as my main browser but I can't if it won't play videos.
Does anyone know if this problem is being worked on?

[myswtest]

myswtest last edited by

Videos work here:
1 - on openSuse Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma DE.
2 - on openSuse MicroOS Kalpa, with KDE Plasma DE.

Opera info for 1 and 2:
Opera One (version: 103.0.4928.16)
Update stream:Stable
System:Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) (x86_64; KDE)
Chromium version:117.0.5938.132

(Since we are all not looking over your shoulder ...)

At a minimum, you should provide:
a - what OS you're running and the DE, plus the Opera version.
b - describe the behavior you see when you attempt to play a video., and any possible errors that may show up.

[myswtest]

myswtest @jtgd last edited by

@jtgd

Additionally, read this thread:

https://forums.opera.com/topic/43603/instructions-on-posting-about-problems-in-opera-for-linux/1

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @jtgd last edited by

@jtgd None of the solutions worked?

[jtgd]

jtgd @myswtest last edited by

@myswtest

Arch Linux, 6.5.6

Opera One(version: 103.0.4928.16)
Checking for updates…
Update stream:Stable
System:Arch Linux (x86_64; Unknown)
Chromium version:117.0.5938.132

Steps:
Go to Facebook.com, login
Find a post with a video.
Click the triangle play button.

Expected behavior:
Plays the video.

What actually happens:
Nothing.
Frame changes to black, but nothing plays.

[gersoctruda]

gersoctruda @jtgd last edited by gersoctruda

@jtgd Read this guide (use translator) https://www.comss.ru/page.php?id=6351
This problem can be fixed.

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

[myswtest]

myswtest @jtgd last edited by myswtest

@jtgd said in Video does not play:

@myswtest

Arch Linux, 6.5.6

Opera One(version: 103.0.4928.16)
Checking for updates…
Update stream:Stable
System:Arch Linux (x86_64; Unknown)
Chromium version:117.0.5938.132

Steps:
Go to Facebook

I don't use FB, so can't comment.

There are many other online video sources other than FB, such as YouTube, Vimeo, DM, etc.

How about others? YouTube is popular.

[jtgd]

jtgd @myswtest last edited by

@myswtest It's not really a replacement for my old browser if it doesn't do everything it does.

But thank you all. I simply installed
6 extra/opera-ffmpeg-codecs 117.0.5938.132-1 (1.7 MiB 5.6 MiB) (Installed)
and it seems to work now.

[tobiasitalo]

tobiasitalo last edited by

Hello, I followed the steps in the indicated repository, but it was not able to solve my problem this time. On another occasion it worked promptly.

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

I still can't watch live streams on YouTube or any video on the Vimeo platform.

https://vimeo.com/873167245

Opera One(version: 105.0.4957.0)
Opera is up to date
Update stream:developer
System:Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (x86_64; ubuntu:GNOME)
Chromium version:118.0.5993.11

Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/105.0.0.0 (Edition developer)
Paths
Install: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera-developer
Profile: /home/italo/.config/opera-developer/Default
Cache: /home/italo/.cache/opera-developer/Default
Installation type
Could only be specified for Windows OS

[styen]

styen @tobiasitalo last edited by

@tobiasitalo said in Video does not play:

Hello, I followed the steps in the indicated repository, but it was not able to solve my problem this time. On another occasion it worked promptly.
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

It's intended to work mainly with stable release.