failed to play html5 video: unsupported codecs

[bruceauyeung]

bruceauyeung last edited by

for example , http://www.bilibili.com/video/av10870998/ , there will be errors:

[MediaError] Exception: Unsupported codecs Please install H.264 codec in your system

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Yes. Opera has poor html5 support, it is discussed in many threads at this forum if you check.
If you want to improve it, install the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-* packages for your distro, provided that they exist.

[wadka92]

wadka92 last edited by

@jimunderscorep do html5 videos work on your machine?

I installed the chromium-media-libs package on fedora and had to change the path in the ffmpeg_preload_config.json from lib to lib64:

cat /usr/lib64/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json 
[
  "lib_extra/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
]

find / -name libffmpeg.so 2> /dev/null
/home/wadka/.local/share/Trash/files/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib64/electron/1.3.13/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so

So everything should work, but it still doesn't...

[wadka92]

wadka92 last edited by admin

H.264 videos work on my machine now! Found my solution here: https://forums.opera.com/post/122456

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@wadka92
No. Unlike the other users here who use ubuntu or fedora or some derivative of them, I use debian which does not package chromium-codec-ffmoeg-*, so I am stuck with opera's built in libffmpeg which has crappy html5 support.
Thus, altering a file will not help me at all.

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Would VLC codecs work in Opera?
Changing paths or whatever needed?

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[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Or an extension?

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[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I do not use vlc, so I have no idea if its libffmpeg.so (if it does have one) will work on opera. I really doubt it will, because that lib will be made for use on a player not on a web browser.

As for the extensions, I would only try the first one that says open in vlc. The rest seem iffy to me

[zalex108]

zalex108 last edited by

Don't know if the could make any difference.

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