Videos Not Working -- News Sites
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quantumstate last edited by
Anyone know how to troubleshoot videos here:
Gray screen.
apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-palestinian-state-recognition-what-to-know-ed18d4cc50b20c8238e0de0068080eb0"This content doesn't seem to be working."
www.bbc.com/news/live/world-69044396This is the case with all videos on these sites.
Does Opera support H.264? AV1?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@quantumstate Opera depends on the OS to play proprietary codecs. In https://html5test.co/ you can check if H264 and AV1 is being supported.
Here videos worked on both pages
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@quantumstate If you use Linus, see the thread on installing the right video libraries for Linux. Also, check that Widevine is up to date.
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quantumstate last edited by quantumstate
@leocg html5test indeed shows I am missing h.264, h.265, Ogg Theora, etc.
@sgunhouse a Search does not come up with the video drivers needed in Linux. Can you advise?
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@quantumstate There is a package of codecs available from the Chromium project which Opera does not have the rights to supply itself; in Debian-based distros this should be called chromium-codecs-extra and be in the nonfree repository. If that doesn't help you may have to get it from an external source.
Here's the official Opera Reddit on Linux video support, there are additional resources listed in this (long) forum thread ... and as I mentioned make sure widevine is up to date.
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quantumstate last edited by
@sgunhouse I guess I'm dead. I've looked everywhere for the right packages to install for OpenSuse (rpm) and the video problem, but nothing. Of course /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so exists.
Since I'd installed Opera as a flatpak I should have thought it would be complete, or at least call for dependencies, but no.
Naturally it fails on MPEG-4 ASP, H.264. H.265, and Ogg/Theora support here: html5test.opensuse.org
Widevine is not found by zypper.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@quantumstate My distro - Mageia - has a repo they call "tainted" which is equivalent to "nonfree" on other distros.. Yes, you have a libffmpeg.so exists, but if it is the "free" version it lacks the codecs you need.
The obvious alternative would be to install a compatible version of Chrome, and use the libffmpeg.so that it comes with.
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quantumstate last edited by
@sgunhouse Not worth it to install -anything- G**gle.
Just need a way to get H.264, Ogg, and AV1. Shouldn't be this hard.
Maybe I need to go back to Firefox.
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