Just about all videos won't play!
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cybrsaylr last edited by
Yesterday all videos were playing fine. Today open and run Opera 49.0 Version: 49.0.2725.39 Stable with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity) and just about ALL videos won't play!
What happened and how can I get videos to play again?
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A Former User last edited by
I have same problem on Ubuntu.
info:
Opera 49.0.2725.56
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Linux ash 4.4.0-83-generic #106-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 26 17:54:43 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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mistapajonk last edited byHi there,
Same for me since yesterday. Purge remove, reinstall Opera, flash etc., doesn't work. -
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A Former User last edited by
Do you all have chromium ffmpeg codecs extra installed? If your distro has a package for it, and ubuntu does have, install it to improve opera's html5 capabilities.
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cybrsaylr last edited by
@jimunderscorep
Yes I have chromium ffmpeg codecs extra installed.
As I said all videos played fine yesterday. Then today most videos are not playing at all.
Seems something weird just happened causing this issue for me and others posting here.
This has happened in the past......Hope Opera can fix this ASAP.
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cybrsaylr last edited by
Also have Opera Developer 51.0 Version: 51.0.2791.0 and all videos are no longer playing on that version either. Opera Developer 51.0 just crashes when attempting to play videos.
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A Former User last edited by
Just a thought... I can not verify its validity because debian (= my distro) does not have chromium ffmpeg codecs available in its repos.
Opera 49 (in stable channel today) is based on chromium 62, opera 50 (in beta channel today) is based on chromium 63 and opera 51 (in developer channel today) is based on chromium 64. What if each version of opera requires chromium ffmpeg codecs of the chromium version it is built on? That means opera stable needs chromium codecs of chromium 62, opera beta the ones of chromium 63 and opera developer the ones of chromium 64 to work.
Sadly, the repos can only provide one version of chromium ffmpeg codecs and that is 63, because today's stable version of chromium is 63.Can someone verify that by installing the relevant packages in their distro?
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cybrsaylr last edited by
@jimunderscorep
Synaptic Package Manager shows that, chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 63.0.3239.84, are installed.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Synaptic, and anything using apt, would obviously show version 63.x for chromium ffmpeg codecs because chromium 63.x is also in the repo and whatever is build from chromium's source will be on the same version.
The odd thing would be to have chromium 62.x and chromium ffmpeg codecs 63.x.If I was on a distro that packages chromium ffmpeg codecs I would either try opera 50 from beta channel today) or wait until 50 reaches stable channel and check again.
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cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr
Opera has been my fav browser going way back to the Opera 3.5 versions. However lately these video issues have been a chronic problem with Opera. Don't know why they haven't been addressed and resolved by now.
I also have Firefox 57.0.1 Chrome 62.0.3202.94 and even TOR 7.0.11 browsers.
Just opened, used and tested all 3 of them and all 3 browsers play video with no problems! -
dkolars last edited by
Discovered same problem last night... Disabled Add-ons, no difference. My solution is to open Chrome to watch videos (cut and paste addy from Opera), and just wait for "them" to "fix it"...
Version: 49.0.2725.56 - Opera is up to date
System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; XFCE) -
A Former User last edited by
As it was said some time ago, opera's built in libffmpeg.so has poor html5 support out of the box due to licencing issues, e.g. it does not support mp3 playback because they do not have the licence to make it do so. Which ones do not work? The ones marked with a red X on html5test.com.
The official, and probably unique, solution is to install chromium ffmpeg codecs, if the distro has a package for it (e.g. ubuntu), and opera will use the libffmpeg.so provided in that package which has better html5 support.
If the distro does not package chromium ffmpeg codecs (e.g. debian), there is no solution, you are stuck and you'd better use another browser for pages that use "problematic" html5 content. That's what I do at least.Finally, on that subject, firefox (and tor as a derivative of it), chrome and chromium (of a distro that packages chromium ffmpeg codecs) have a licence for all those non-free codeds that html5 can use, so they work out of the box. If you want to make a fair comparison, compare opera to vivaldi, which has the same licencing issue.
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A Former User last edited by
I got the same problem on KDE neon which is based on Ubuntu. This fixes it for me:
Download https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/opera-ffmpeg-codecs-62.0.3202.94-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and replace the libffmpeg.so in the opera directory (which is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera in my case).
Hoping that Opera will work on this. There is no problem with Vivaldi by the way.
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okluge last edited by
Videos work for me.
49.0.2725.5 on Linux Mint 17.2, which is an LTS with Ubuntu Trusty 64 Bit (Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS (x86_64; X-Cinnamon), but only after I installed chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 via Synaptic.
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
@thomas-rager said in I don't see videos on Twitter:
H.264/MP4 problem in Opera 49.0.2725.5
Ok, I had some time to play around. On Debian (amd64) based systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, ect) you need to uninstall
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra with the command:
sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
You can uses this older version as replacement:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306
or as direct download:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/338867652/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306_amd64.deb
download the file and use:
sudo dpkg --install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306_amd64.deb
to install it, or double click on the file. Afterwards completely restart Opera.
If you want to prevent further updates of this package use this command (not recommended):
sudo apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra -
A Former User last edited by
@xezolitharon said in Just about all videos won't play!:
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ubuntu0.16.04.1306_amd64.deb
download the file and use:
sudo dpkg --install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306_amd64.deb
to install it, or double click on the file. Afterwards completely restart Opera.
<snipped>This worked without fail. Phew. Perfect stop-gap measure for now. Thanks @xezolitharon !
But this remains to be an issue. I understand and appreciate the troubles with licensing, I really do.
But back to reality: Video's don't work with up to date software, codecs and drivers. No matter the reason, however valid; this is a big problem for Opera. This will drive people to other browsers. Not many people will go to a different browser just for media consumption.What can we, as a community, do to help move to an actual solution?
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A Former User last edited by
@xezolitharon
Unfortunately replacing the whole package breaks an existing chromium installation, but it's possible to extract the libffmpeg.so from the deb file and moving it into the opera directory.
There is is newer version of the package working just as well:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/345863538/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94-0ubuntu0.16.04.1317_amd64.deb -
A Former User last edited by
Just discovered that it even works when moving the current libffmpeg.so (63...) into the opera directory. It can be retrieved either from the installation directory /usr/lib/chromium-browser of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra or from http://launchpadlibrarian.net/348605543/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
This is really weird since the ffmpeg_preload_config.json in the resources subdir of the opera installation contains the correct link to the extra codecs.
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cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr
@cyberjag said in Just about all videos won't play!:
@xezolitharon
Unfortunately replacing the whole package breaks an existing chromium installation, but it's possible to extract the libffmpeg.so from the deb file and moving it into the opera directory.
There is is newer version of the package working just as well:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/345863538/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94-0ubuntu0.16.04.1317_amd64.deb@cyberjag,
Can you give the steps for doing this?
Moving things around like that is new to me and am not sure how it's done.Today did some Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity) updating which included updates to Opera 49.0 version
49.0.2725.56 and Opera Dev 51.0 Version: 51.0.2802.0 but videos still don't play.
