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    Video and Opera does not seem to be going good on Linux Mint

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    • shelleyfrank
      shelleyfrank @styen last edited by shelleyfrank

      @styen Thanks for this solution. I almost uninstalled Opera because of the video issue. Now it's working fine. The only thing is that I couldn't install opera-stable via apt, so I downloaded the latest deb installer from Opera homepage. The Linux Mint repo must be lacking opera-stable

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      • danielpvn
        danielpvn @styen last edited by

        @styen you are a angel , thanks

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        • s58302
          s58302 @styen last edited by

          @styen Thank you so much!!

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          • MrBaloo11
            MrBaloo11 @styen last edited by

            @styen Thank you, this solution worked excellent with Linux Mint 22.

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            • typeoftian
              typeoftian @mochica last edited by

              @mochica this is right.

              but for some people who user some package manager such snap, flatpak, aur, yay etc. the correct directory is /usr/lib/opera.

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              • DmKnght
                DmKnght last edited by

                I couldn't find package that contains libffmpeg on APT repo (and I don't really trust results on internet). So I copied codium's libffmpeg into Opera's lib_extra. This routine fixed video problem for me.

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                • isabella-87
                  isabella-87 Banned last edited by

                  Have you tried updating your codecs or switching the video renderer in Opera’s settings? Sometimes adjusting those can help improve performance. Also, checking if hardware acceleration is enabled might be worth a try. Let me know if that helps!

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                  • RubensMatos
                    RubensMatos @lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

                    @lavanyadeepak-0 The same happened to me, but after I closed Opera and run it again, everything is fine. All videos are working like a charm. thank you @mochica

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                    • FinnFinnigan
                      FinnFinnigan @lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

                      @lavanyadeepak-0

                      I ran into the same issue, so I reported it as a bug to opera and got this automated bug fix response, they must get it a lot. I haven't tried it yet but I thought that I would post in in here as another fix method:

                      Automation for Jira commented:

                      It looks like your report is connected with media issues on Linux OS.
                      Unfortunately, Opera .deb and .rpm versions don't support the H.264/MP4 codec natively. We recommend using snap to avoid problems with codecs.

                      If you want to fix it manually, please try the following steps:
                      You should have Chromium installed on your system.

                      Download Chromium.
                      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.)
                      Now restart Opera and visit this site to check if HTML5 playback works correctly.
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                      Thank you for helping improve Opera!

                      Best wishes, the Opera Desktop Team

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                      • Stugrue
                        Stugrue @jito463 last edited by

                        @jito463 Yeah they can f... off its not up to me to fix their shit and I'm definitely not going to install another program Snap just so i can have 1 app

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