Just about all videos won't play!

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..."

A Former User

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

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?

A Former User

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!

A Former User @Guest

@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.

madhatterw2qms

madhatterw2qms

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.

A Former User

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.

mmichel

mmichel

Post for reference: https://forums.opera.com/topic/25129

cybrsaylr

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......

A Former User

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.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@jimunderscorep
Synaptic says: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-ex 66.0.3359.159-OubuntuO.16.04.3 are installed. Description: Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser.

That said videos still do not play.

Also noted in Synaptic there are: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 66.0.3359. 139-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 Description: Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser that are not installed. When trying to install these Free ffmpeg codecs Synaptic says the Extra ffmpeg codecs will be removed first to be replaced by the Free ffmpeg codecs. So I left the Extra ffmpeg codecs in place.
Was that the correct thing to do?

Well just got done. Did remove the Extra x66 ffmpeg codecs and replaced them with the Free x66 ffmpeg codecs. Then restarted Opera 52 and videos still will not play with the Free ffmpeg x66 codecs either.

A Former User

That's exactly what I said above and what I describe at the other thread.

You have opera 52 (based on chromium 65) and chromium ffmpeg codecs 66, and these things do not work together. Wait until opera 53 is released, it will be based on chromium 66 and it will obviously work with chromium ffmpeg codecs 66. And a few days later, chromium will be updated to 67 and the circle of whining will start over

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @Guest

@jimunderscorep

Made another interesting discovery related to this. You know how some sites like Yahoo, will not show you their videos unless your ad blocker is disabled. Well discovered some of these sites also will not play vids if you are in 'Private Browsing' mode, or using Opera VPN! Was playing around with this and found some sites play video well until you go into 'private browsing' or turn on Opera VPN, which causes videos to no longer play. It happens and seems to vary from site to site.

A Former User

First of all, opera 53 was released a few hours ago, which is based on chromium 66 and it should work with chromium ffmpeg codecs 66.

Second, opera's poor html5 support is irrelevant to its adblock and its vpn. It is a "flaw" that is built in in the app itself and it is reproducible with those 2 disabled.
For the record, I use neither opera's vpn, nor its adblock at all. I use ublock origin for my ad blocking needs and that's all.

A Former User

65.0.3325.181 version of libffmpeg.so still works, even with:

Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3371.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/54.0.2920.0 (Edition developer)

and also
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.117 Safari/537.36 OPR/53.0.2907.31 (Edition beta)
and
a couple of "V's" at 65.

So, still good for now. Those newer v67 libffmpeg.so's tend to be linked to glibc 2.27. When those are used on system with glibc 2.26, browser won't start.
The Xenial versions are compatible for debian 9.x.