<![CDATA[How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial]]]>Many persons reports this problem with Opera 32 on Linux systems. For flash video playback solution is easy, you must install Pepper Flash Player.

But to fix HTML 5 video playback problems solution is a bit more complicate. The problem is that Opera doesn't support H.264/MP4 codec natively. For fix it we going to use codecs of Chromium.
Now I going to enumerate the steps you must do to fix this problem:

  1. You must have installed Chromium on your system.

  2. Download Chromium

  3. Now you must 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 link Chromium libffmpeg.so file to Opera)

  4. Now restart Opera and visit this site to check that HTML 5 playback work correctly.

That's it, I hope you have been helpful to them. 😃

Source: https://gist.github.com/lukaszzek/ec04d5c953226c062dac#gistcomment-1579954

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/12193/how-to-fix-video-playback-problems-with-opera-32-on-linux-tutorialRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 01:08:41 GMTMon, 12 Oct 2015 13:28:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:17:08 GMT]]>Hola que tal mi gente. Sólo espero que estén bien, cuidate mucho, repete a a otro para que te repete y ama a otro para que te ame a tí.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/92089https://forums.opera.com/post/92089Sat, 23 Jan 2016 02:17:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:51:31 GMT]]>

I use Opera V32.0.1948.69 on PCLinuxOS_x64 (A Mandrake fork). I had the same problem with Opera not playing html5 video files.
I went to follow dimigianna's advice, only to find that libffmpeg.so.32 was already present in the /usr/lib/opera/lib/ directory...
How do I get Opera to recognise it ?

Are you 100% sure the version isn't a higher version? I've not used Mandrake much but I used to use it when it was Mandriva, I've not used the fork at all except to try the Live environment and see if they'd come very far with it.

Anyhow, my suggestion would be to update Opera, grab the appropriate latest package from Chromium, and move and rename if needed. That's where I'd start, at least. <_<

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/89418https://forums.opera.com/post/89418Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:51:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:42:50 GMT]]>I use Opera V32.0.1948.69 on PCLinuxOS_x64 (A Mandrake fork). I had the same problem with Opera not playing html5 video files.
I went to follow dimigianna's advice, only to find that libffmpeg.so.32 was already present in the /usr/lib/opera/lib/ directory...

How do I get Opera to recognise it ?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/87781https://forums.opera.com/post/87781Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:42:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:01:10 GMT]]>dimigianna Thanks!
I entered the code you gave above in terminal and it worked!
I now can play those videos that would not play before.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/86446https://forums.opera.com/post/86446Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:01:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:24:33 GMT]]>From the latest opera developer post:

The Linux version of Opera developer is now able to detect whether the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is installed. As long as this package is up-to-date (45.0.2454.x and newer), Opera can make use of the libraries in this package to provide support for some proprietary codecs for media elements, including H264 and MP3.

Which means the only thing you have to do now is to install the package. And the latest beta post says exactly the same, so now we only have to wait for this to come stable.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/86366https://forums.opera.com/post/86366Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:24:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:34:26 GMT]]>You don't need to install Chrome or Chromium, just the proper libs. On linux mint 17.2 with Opera 32.0.1948.69, do the following.

Open a terminal (ctrl-alt-t)

Enter the following commands:

sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.32

Restart opera

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/86305https://forums.opera.com/post/86305Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:34:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:16:08 GMT]]>@cybrsaylr & @jperez-dev - I moved my through the GUI. I downloaded Chromium and grabbed the file. I then opened the file manager as gksudu so the command on my box was:

gksudo pacmanfs

You will, maybe, want to change the pacmanfs to your file manager. I then moved things and renamed them with the GUI. It worked like a champ.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/85849https://forums.opera.com/post/85849Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:16:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to How to fix video playback problems with Opera 32 on Linux [Tutorial] on Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:09:24 GMT]]>Tried running your above code in terminal and get this message:
No such file or directory

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/85848https://forums.opera.com/post/85848Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:09:24 GMT