Just about all videos won't play!
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cybrsaylr last edited by
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.
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A Former User last edited by
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.
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A Former User last edited by
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. -
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A Former User last edited by
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).
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A Former User last edited by
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
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A Former User last edited by
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 last edited by
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 last edited by 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!
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Sigmalion last edited by
@jimunderscorep chromium codecs 64 is not compatible with today's opera 50.
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A Former User last edited by
@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..." -
A Former User last edited by
Does anyone finally solved this problem? This is starting to be highly annoying. I have to keep FireFox in my OS for such situations. Yesterday had to update my linux distro, saw opera and chromium codecs on the update lists and know that I'll be must using FireFox this week and I was right. Tried all solutions, I have chromium codecs repo and copy libmpeg from chromium codecs into Opera dir make Opera crashing over and over
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A Former User last edited by A Former User
Before I start writing about apt-mark and other apt kung-fu, what do you mean with this bit
Tried all solutions, I have chromium codecs repo and copy libmpeg from chromium codecs into Opera dir
Which is that "chromium codecs repo" you mention? And which distro are you on?
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A Former User last edited by
Everyone having problems with videos on Twitter (or GIFS) or with the H.264 codec videos. I'm running Opera 52 for Linux (Deepin 15, Ubuntu based).
I downloaded the last libffmpeg version from this github repo: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/tag/0.28.2
Just placed in the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera and restarted Opera. All working like a charm! I've been searching for solutions like last 2,3 hours and finally found that solution. Hopes that helps some other Linux buddies here!
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A Former User last edited by
@dawy Thanks for that link. I downloaded it and tested it out. It works fine. However, it seemed a little big because it is unstripped. I stripped mine by strip -s libffmpeg.so first and that knocked it down to 2.5 megabytes. That is not necessary though.
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madhatterw2qms last edited by
Under Arch Linux and probably more the package name to fix this problem is "opera-ffmpeg-codecs" install that package and restart the Opera browser and the issue should be resolved.
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A Former User last edited by
For the ubuntu or ubuntu-based, this
https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
should work for those not wanting to manually drop a lib in the opera dir or opera/lib_extra dir. -
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cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr
Here we again!
Made the mistake of updating to Opera 52.0.2871.99 - Stable- Opera is up to date - on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS (x86_64; Unity), just a few minutes ago and now just about all videos DON'T play!
Videos played fine before updating Opera......
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A Former User last edited by
Did your distro upgrade chromium and its dependencies (i.e chromium ffmpeg codecs) to version 66.x? Packages-ubuntu-com reports that chromium is still on version 65 for ubuntu 16.04.
For the record, the latest update of opera stable (52, based on chromium 65) was on April 25th while chromium was updated to v 66.x on April 17th, so yes, things would and did break after all.
In fact, I am amazed that there has been no complaint earlier.Please check the thread on my signature for the connection between the vesions of opera and chromium and you will understand.
