libffmpeg.so needs to be changed every installation
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9Dragons last edited by
Its utterly ridiculous that I cant watch Netflix unless I jump through several hoops.
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jhonndee last edited by
You're right—Opera for Linux doesn’t bundle the full libffmpeg .so due to licensing issues. A practical fix is to symlink or copy the full version of libffmpeg .so (from Chromium or chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra) into Opera’s lib directory after each update. To automate it, you can write a simple shell script and add it to a post-install hook or run it manually after updates. This avoids doing it manually every time.
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leifjoha last edited by
@jhonndee I have made a bash script for copy a full libffmpeg.so.
But I take libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/. I have no Chromium/Crome on my PC. But I can't understand that Opera not can solved the legal problem, when Firefox to Linux and Crome to Linux can. -
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javickers last edited by javickers
This no longer works
I've been doing the "Use Chromium's libffmpeg.so" "trick" for several years; but after the last 2-3 updates (or so), if I copy across Chromium's version, Opera just crashes whenever it tries to play ANY video - even ones it is capable of by itself.
Looking for a new solution now
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@javickers Doing a little digging, it seems like the libffmpeg.so that comes with the Slack deb package is from the chromium-ffmpeg snap package.
Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config/ for ways to find a compatible libffmpeg.so in the future if needed.
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SmokDiplodok last edited by
@javickers There's no need to do any Google tricks.
Just download the file for Linux from this page
https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt
and upload it here
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/I need the 64-bit file, so I downloaded this one 0.101.2-linux-x64.zip
At least for Linux Mint 22.1. Then restart Opera.
This always works for me, and I do it every time I update Opera. It's a pain, unfortunately. Opera is a rather odd browser; it has some good points and a few annoying ones.
