Can't play videos after update

[gloewa]

gloewa @valour47 last edited by

@valour47 Thanks for your Info. I solved the problem for now by copying libffmpeg.so from the Vivaldi directory to the Opera directory. Now everything is working as usual again.

Opera User since Version 3.x

[3333e]

3333e last edited by

@Opera-QA-Team
As I said at somewhere, opera has wrong LD_PRELOAD for buldled ffmpeg.
We can load newer version of ffmpeg (with same avcodec soname) if opera fixed the bug without violating with EULA. Please stop LD_PRELOAD.

[3333e]

3333e @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Also needed to remove bundled .so to take avcodec based approach due to LD_PRELOAD bug.

ABI info is completely masked at unified .so (extractable from source code) and major ver of avcodec could be bumped even major ver of Chromium is not bumped.

[gloewa]

gloewa @3333e last edited by

@3333e Thanks for the info. But my solution posted above is to me - as user - much more simpler ...

Opera User since Version 3.x

[3333e]

3333e @gloewa last edited by

@gloewa Copying random version from random place is not a reproducible solution.

[alexs]

alexs @3333e last edited by

@3333e said in Can't play videos after update:

@gloewa Copying random version from random place is not a reproducible solution.

It isn't, but the Opera programmers responsible leave you no other choice.
Like Opera, Vivaldi uses Chromium as its basis, but Vivaldi uses a functioning libffmpeg.so. I mentioned above [1] where Vivaldi gets the libffmpeg.so from.
[1] https://forums.opera.com/post/392484

[gloewa]

gloewa @3333e last edited by

@3333e As i wrote: Its a quick solution for now.
The Opera-Crew has to deliver a browser who is able to play videos. Welcome to the 21. Century!

Opera User since Version 3.x

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @3333e last edited by

@3333e It's different issue and should be discussed in a different topic.

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oabm77 @leocg last edited by

@leocg For me that instructions from Reddit worked like a charm Thankyou!

[DmKnght]

DmKnght last edited by

I'm sorry the "stable" in opera-stable should mean "it should be tested carefully and it shouldn't break anything that works?". Either way, I did the method that copied libffmpeg.so before and it worked fine until the latest update. After checking this topic, I found out Opera-stable has its libffmpeg version

dpkg -L opera-stable | grep ffmpeg
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json

I tried remove the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so and videos play fine now on my PC.