[Duplicated]Problems with media playback

ryuketsueki

ryuketsueki

Before you ask, I followed the steps on the instructions post before making this. I disabled all extensions, disabled ad and tracker blockers, reset configs and even backed up and made a new profile. Firewall was also disabled during the troubleshooting. No change in what I'm about to describe here

I recently installed Opera from the non-oss repos on openSUSE. But when I saw I couldn't watch Netflix, giving an error related to Widevine. It also had problems with Twitter not being able to play videos and YouTube also sometimes had issues too, with some videos playing and others not playing, I uninstalled it and instead went for the flatpak one, which was supposed to have everything already sorted out. But the problem persisted

This is the info on my browser from the about page:

Opera One (version: 104.0.4944.36)
Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) (x86_64; KDE)
Chromium version: 118.0.5993.118

Wanting to get some further tests, at least from what I could figure out reading around, these are the results I got:

So apparently Widevine is installed and up-to-date. I also did what some people recommended about deleting the widevine folder and manually installing it back using the components page. It downloaded, installed, the version number appeared as showed, but still no change on being able to watch DRM content. I also don't know what to do with the items on the Media Source Extension category. WebM is supported but apparently not MP4, which is what I think Twitter uses and some YouTube Videos.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

To get mp4/h.264 support, see https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config/.

ryuketsueki

ryuketsueki @burnout426

@burnout426
Hey, that actually did it. Also Widevine is back too.

On an additional note, I just realized that the official downloads doesn't have only DEB packages. I downloaded the RPM package, since I use openSUSE, and it seems to be a lot more stable than the Flatpak one. I didn't do it previously because it wasn't obvious that there is also an official RPM package. So.... away the flatpak one goes!