Just about all videos won't play!

A Former User

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.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@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.

A Former User

@cybrsaylr

I'm only referring to Opera 49.0.2725.56.

First save the original libffmpeg.so:
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
sudo cp libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so_original

If you got chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra installed you can do
sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

Otherwise get http://launchpadlibrarian.net/348605543/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb, unpack it (or open it with Ark), then unpack data.tar.xz, you will find libffmpeg.so. Then
sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

If opera gets updated the file will be replaced by the official one but hopefully the bug will then be fixed or you have to do this procedure again...

A Former User @Guest

So it seems that what I said earlier does occur

@jimunderscorep said in Just about all videos won't play!:

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.

The chromium-62-based opera 49 does need chromium ffmpeg codecs version 62 to work as it should.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Success......I hope!

Opened Synaptic Package Manager and removed chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 63.0.3239.84

Then downloaded and installed codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94 as per http://launchpadlibrarian.net/345863538/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94-0ubuntu0.16.04.1317_amd64.deb

Restarted Opera 49.0 and videos are running again.

However Synaptic now shows this:
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Oh and it seems the new Opera VPN that presently offers only 3 regions does slow videos down quite a bit when turned on. When VPN is turned off videos play very well.

Sigmalion

Sigmalion @Guest

@cyberjag said in Just about all videos won't play!:

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The cp worked for Linux Mint 18.2, Thanks a lot!

catmcfarlane

catmcfarlane @cybrsaylr

@cybrsaylr said in Just about all videos won't play!:

Success......I hope!

Opened Synaptic Package Manager and removed chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 63.0.3239.84

Then downloaded and installed codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94 as per http://launchpadlibrarian.net/345863538/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94-0ubuntu0.16.04.1317_amd64.deb

Restarted Opera 49.0 and videos are running again.

However Synaptic now shows this:

Oh and it seems the new Opera VPN that presently offers only 3 regions does slow videos down quite a bit when turned on. When VPN is turned off videos play very well.

Thanks so much for this. Running latest Opera version, Mint Cinnamon 18.1, and Youtube flash-html5 add on; with this, videos would play, set to html5, but not live videos. Now they work!

A Former User

Why doesn't anyone try opera-BETA 50 with chromium 63 ffmpeg codecs installed, since they are both built from the same sources? Instead, you all try workarounds to extract, move to the right place etc chromium 62 ffmpeg codecs to make it work with chromium-62-based opera stable.

Plus, if this really is the issue (the compatibility between the versions opera and chromium ffmpeg codecs are build), opera devs should move opera beta to stable faster. Chromium 63 reached stable at December 8th, so chromium-63-based opera beta should move to stable sooner.

catmcfarlane

catmcfarlane @Guest

@jimunderscorep said in Just about all videos won't play!:

Why doesn't anyone try opera-BETA 50 with chromium 63 ffmpeg codecs installed, since they are both built from the same sources? Instead, you all try workarounds to extract, move to the right place etc chromium 62 ffmpeg codecs to make it work with chromium-62-based opera stable.

Plus, if this really is the issue (the compatibility between the versions opera and chromium ffmpeg codecs are build), opera devs should move opera beta to stable faster. Chromium 63 reached stable at December 8th, so chromium-63-based opera beta should move to stable sooner.

Because 50's a beta, which I worry might be a worse option that adapting 49, especially if not technically able to fix other things. I didn't know about the beta, either. Opera should be getting the criticism, as they must know these issues will happen due to not releasing the right codecs at the same time. Just glad to know the option of keeping previous codecs, so things work.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @cybrsaylr

Here we go again!
Updated Ubuntu today. There were some changes made to Opera 49, namely chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 63 replaced chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 62, making videos NOT play again.
Just did again what I did before as shown below and videos are running again.
@cybrsaylr said in Just about all videos won't play!:

Success......I hope!

Opened Synaptic Package Manager and removed chromium ffmpeg codecs extra 63.0.3239.84

Then downloaded and installed codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94 as per http://launchpadlibrarian.net/345863538/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_62.0.3202.94-0ubuntu0.16.04.1317_amd64.deb

Restarted Opera 49.0 and videos are running again.

However Synaptic now shows this:

Oh and it seems the new Opera VPN that presently offers only 3 regions does slow videos down quite a bit when turned on. When VPN is turned off videos play very well.

A Former User

You have to unload the last chromium-ffmpeg-codecs-extra update and re-install an earlier one. The latest one (chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64) won't work.

A Former User

So, chromium-63-based opera 50 is out today. Can you all verify that chromium 63 ffmpeg codecs work now?
I would, but I can't, because debian does not package chromium ffmpeg codecs.

sgunhouse

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer

Neither does Mageia ...

A Former User

It seems that debian and mageia depend on the libav* libs (libavcodec/libavcodec-extra, libavformat and libavutil) instead of libffmpeg to provide the needed html5 support for chromium. I thought it was just debian, but after I checked chromium's dependencies on mageia, I am sure they do the same.

http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/15adf781118334e457f45bba4e24442c/deps

How hard is it for opera devs to make opera use these libs as well instead of its own libffmpeg and the ones provided by chromium ffmpeg codecs (on the distros that do build and package them).

A Former User

You can fix video in all recent Opera versions (under Debian at least) by downloading this

https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/opera-beta-ffmpeg-codecs-64.0.3282.71-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

And extracting the libffmpeg.so file from it and putting it into the directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

A Former User

Linux mint 18.3 offers 63.0.3239.132-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 ffmpeg codecs via update manager, do those work?
I don't want to install them just to see if they work and if not, do all the work installing a earlier version.

A Former User

Just a notice...
Chromium 64 was released today, so it will soon be on in the repos of all major and minor distros, along with chromium codecs 64. In turn, they may (or may not) be compatible with today's opera 50, which is built on chromium 63. So, brace yourselves, whining about "videos not playing anymore" is coming :p

@operahh
This solution has been suggested many times in the past. I am against it as a solution because that is an ARCH linux package, built on totally different libs, ffmpeg etc. What if someone is on debian stable which has ffmpeg 3.2.x? What if he is on ubuntu 16.04 which has an even older version of ffmpeg? Using a "foreign" lib to just make things work seems like a pretty stupid idea to me...

@Governor
Opera 50 is chromium 63 based, so mint's chromium ffmpeg codecs should play with no problem. However, keep in mind what I said above.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr

Here we go again..........

Running Opera 50.0.2762.67 - Opera is up to date.
For about a week or so all videos were playing well, right up to today when all vids refuse to play again!

This is getting pretty old. Wish Opera would address this chronic issue and solve it!

Sigmalion

Sigmalion @Guest

@jimunderscorep chromium codecs 64 is not compatible with today's opera 50.

A Former User @Sigmalion

@sigmalion said in Just about all videos won't play!:

@jimunderscorep chromium codecs 64 is not compatible with today's opera 50.

I know. Opera 50 is based on chromium 63, thus chromium 64 ffmpegs codes do nbt work with it.
When I wrote that post above, ~2weeks ago, chromium 64 was just released and all distros still had chromium 63 on their repos. That's why I said "it will soon be in the repos etc..."