why Opera? why?

[sylarxyz]

sylarxyz last edited by

Using Linux and we are in 2016 and no friggin support for h.264??
wtf? even my 4 Year old Smartphone can play videos on twitter

https://abload.de/img/bildschirmfotovom2016qpuuj.png

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Opera is not allowed to distribute it, if you have a compatible version of libffmpeg Opera will use that.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

Hi @sylarxyz, for Opera stable 37 on Linux distros based on Debian/Ubuntu, you can install the "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" package, and videos encoded in H.264 should simply work without a problem.

For any other 64-bit Linux distro (and also if you want to make it work in Opera beta and Opera developer), just follow the below steps:

1. Navigate to the Opera's installation folder (find the path in Opera's menu > About Opera), and create there a new folder "lib_extra",

2. Download the "opera-ffmpeg-codecs" package for: Opera stable, Opera beta, or Opera developer, and extract the "libffmpeg.so" file to this folder.

Alternatively, if you are using 32-bit Linux distribution, you can download the appropriate packages from here