This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 102630) After a crash
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ddavee78 last edited by
Experiencing the same issue. My OS is Ubuntu Budgie. Up until a couple of days ago everything was fine. Not sure what happened but I started experiencing the same issue. Videos play fine in Firefox and Chrome but Opera! I get the Error Code 102630
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garyg68 last edited by
I'm getting the same message with Facebook videos/reels though Youtube is working ok. All was fine till the recent Opera update (version: 107.0.5045.15). Checked in Firefox and Chromium and they play the same videos fine. I tried the usual disabling of extensions, clear profile to no avail...
Operating System: Ubuntu Studio 23.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-17-lowlatency (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel
Core
i5-12400
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 730 -
ddavee78 last edited by leocg
So I sent this through bug reporting, and below is the response I received
Thank you for your report.
It looks like your report connected with media on Linux OS.
Unfortunately, Opera dem and rpm doesn't support H.264/MP4 codec natively. We recommend using snap to avoid such problems with codecs.
If you want to fix it manually, please try the following:
Download Chromium, if you don't have it installed yet.
Now run the following command in Linux Shell: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.32 (this command links the Chromium libffmpeg.so file to Opera).
Restart Opera and visit this site to check that HTML 5 playback works correctly.
Thank you for helping improve Opera!
Best wishes, the Opera QA TeamI executed the above command and it returned error message saying there is no such directory. I'm also not sure on installing codecs through snap as they suggest.
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ddavee78 last edited by
@akaln said in This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 102630) After a crash:
Anyone knows how to install codecs for opera via snap?
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Builder1024 last edited by
@ddavee78 unfortunately snap image does not work also, even if chromium-ffmpeg is installed
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sdm4n last edited by
I experience the same with Opera One (version: 107.0.5045.15) on Ubuntu 23.10 and can confirm H.264 videos not playing on both Snap and Flatpak installations of Opera. One or two versions ago, they were playing. They are now playing on Chrome as well as on Firefox.
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coss0475 last edited by
I experienced the same issue after the upgrade.
I installed the chromium codec through snap:sudo snap install chromium-ffmpeglinked the codec to opera lib-extra folder and restarted the browser.
sudo ln -s /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/37/chromium-ffmpeg-114023/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.soNOTE: make sure to remove the old libffmpeg.so if exists.
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ddavee78 last edited by
Ive been constantly checking for new updates since last week hoping an update would fix my issue. It finally happened. I didn’t really pay attention what the published updates were but after tilix finished installing the updates, I immediately tried playing videos on my Opera browser and noticed that the issue has been resolved. Thanks everyone!
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garyg68 last edited by
@ddavee78 I just checked after you posted this out of curiosity and video is now working in things like Facebook... I wasn't aware of any more Opera updates, I did install Vivaldi but that didn't work initially and haven't copied any codecs etc so not sure why Opera's working now....
So all good but a bit of a hassle when it breaks like this occasionally.
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teledyn last edited by
If the problem was fixed, it is back again, because this is exactly the behaviour I am having with UbuntuStudio 24.04, even with the updated libffmpeg.so (which solved other video issues) the stories and reels on Instagram display the same message as above.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
You have the non-snap, non-flatpak package (aka deb package) of Opera version 110.0.5130.39 and the libffmpeg.so from the zip file at https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/releases/tag/nwjs-ffmpeg-0.87.0 in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/"?
Make sure hardware acceleration is on at the URL
opera://settings/system.Goto the URL
opera://gpu. Does it show that most things are hardware-accelerated? If not, on Linux, you might have to mess with some flags at the URLopera://flagsand or some command-line switches (see https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/x1z0a0/comment/imj7zmu/ and https://new.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/11gak0r/gpu_accelerated_video_decoding_vaapi_in_chrome_or/ for example) to get things hardware-accelerated.When you launch Opera from a terminal, does it give any errors when trying to play shorts and reels?
After trying to play one of the shorts and reels, you can goto the URL
opera://media-internalsand click on the box for that player to expand it and see what errors there are. You can also look through the whole log.You can test if it's a browser-detection issue and pretend to be Chrome. See https://new.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/known_issues/#wiki_can.27t_log_in_to_twitch for example of how to do that.
I see the error often means you have an unstable connection, but I'm going to assume that's not the case.
