<![CDATA[[Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's]]>continued from Opera for Windows: this thread

Opera 41.0.2353.56 on Debian Testing, amd64

Opera does not play mp3 files, while AFAIK, it should. Instead, Opera asks where to download the file instead of playing it:

ogg example

mp3 example

The ogg plays, the mp3 is greyed out. When I click a direct link to an mp3, opera asks where to download the file:

direct mp3

OTOH, there is a site http://odb.org/ on which there is an mp3 which is played by Opera (not by flash) and AFAICS this site uses the same audio settings as the examples above.

The OS plays all types of audio formats, VLC, mplayer, FireFox, no problem. Anyone a hint why ogg is playing and mp3 is not?

Richard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/18084/solved-opera-is-not-playing-mp3-sRSS for NodeSun, 19 Jul 2026 14:26:39 GMTTue, 15 Nov 2016 11:23:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:00:52 GMT]]>Yes, and it would be nice if Opera would give a clear error message like "codec not supported" and a link to a FAQ or a solution. Not just a greyed out audio bar...

I miss the good old newsserver btw. Pity that they switched the thing off.

Anyway, it works fine now. Thnx for your answer!

Richard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110937https://forums.opera.com/post/110937Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:00:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:09:25 GMT]]>Seems that opera relies heavily on chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra which gets installed on Ubuntu/Mint together with proprietary codecs. So this problem is non-existent on Ubuntu/Mint. Most people use these distributions. Chromium/Firefox/Vivaldi don't suffer from this problem, obviously it's an Opera issue.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110916https://forums.opera.com/post/110916Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:09:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:56:29 GMT]]>Is there a way to change the subject of the thread? I'd like to add [SOLVED]

Richard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110898https://forums.opera.com/post/110898Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:56:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:54:37 GMT]]>BTW, I just found this at the Opera site. AFAIUI mp3 and aac is not supported natively by Opera. Question remains why nobody complains.

Richard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110897https://forums.opera.com/post/110897Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:54:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:49:03 GMT]]>Thnx, this was the solution. I installed a package called chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra which I was able to find at the ubuntu packages site.

OTOH the question remains why the libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera doesn't work. The two libffmpeg.so files are mentioned in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json and the Opera native one does not support aac and mp3 according to http://html5test.com.

Quite strange IMHO, as nobody seems to encounter this particular problem...

Richard.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110896https://forums.opera.com/post/110896Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:55:33 GMT]]>I had the same problem on openSuse with mp3 and H264 codecs. You can test the codec support at http://html5test.com
I solved it by replacing libffmpeg.so in the opera directory with the one from the chromium installation. At openSuse the directories are /usr/lib64/chromium and /usr/lib64/opera. HTH.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110872https://forums.opera.com/post/110872Mon, 21 Nov 2016 19:55:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:11:09 GMT]]>There is the libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera:

$ ls -al /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280528 Nov 7 12:44 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

There is a libffmpeg that comes with qmmp, but installing that package does not make any difference. I checked the file:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json

and the path to that particular Opera lib wasn't there. I added it, restarted Opera, but still no mp3...

I threw away the ~/.config/opera/ dir, but no difference. It seems that I'm the only one with this particular problem. I have no standard config, I'd like to keep my system simple, but OTOH Firefox, VLC, mplayer etc work fine.

R.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110726https://forums.opera.com/post/110726Fri, 18 Nov 2016 17:11:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:31:24 GMT]]>What version of libffmpeg does your system have?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110722https://forums.opera.com/post/110722Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:31:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to [Solved]Opera is not playing mp3's on Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:40:22 GMT]]>What mechanisme does Opera use to recognize mime types?

R.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/110712https://forums.opera.com/post/110712Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:40:22 GMT