Just about all videos won't play!
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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.
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cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
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
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cybrsaylr last edited by
@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.
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A Former User last edited by
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 last edited by 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.
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mmichel last edited by
@mmichel said in Just about all videos won't play!:
Post for reference: https://forums.opera.com/topic/25129
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cybrsaylr last edited by
@jimunderscorep
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.
Just got Opera 53.0.2907.37 and videos are running fine again.
Been using the AdBlock extension that seems to perform well.
Been using Opera's VPN some but not all the time when. Heck it's free and been running decent lately. -
A Former User last edited by
@cybrsaylr said in Just about all videos won't play!:
Just got Opera 53.0.2907.37 and videos are running fine again.
Because opera 53 is based on chromium 66, and you already have chromium ffmpeg codecs 66 installed, so it works. Plain math
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A Former User last edited by
Tried all but nothing worked!
Copying ffmpg.so to opera directory force opera to crash.Sooo annoying! Can not use a Browser without showing Videos!
It is unprofessional and i will deinstall and never use Opera again!
I am a software engineer and developer on my own and i never would accept such a behaviour of one of my applications...
no good work!!!
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SilverFox66 last edited by
Same here. Worked fine till a day or two ago. Now, no videos play. Certain sites tell me to enable adobe flash even. Version:57.0.3098.102 on Linux Mint 18.3
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A Former User last edited by
@silverfox66 The ubuntu-like distros may need this package updated: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
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mklinuxuser last edited by
@silverfox66 It looks like Chromium has been bumped to version 71 but Opera 57 is still based on 70.
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SilverFox66 last edited by
@s390g2 said in Just about all videos won't play!:
@silverfox66 The ubuntu-like distros may need this package updated: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Why did it work fine before, then? ALso, I already have Chromium installed, and the Extra ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser installed at 71.0.3578.80-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
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mklinuxuser last edited by
@silverfox66 They are out of sync, so you need the libffmpeg.o from version 70.
I found the old file under /var/cache/apt/archives - chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_70.0.3538.77-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb.
I extracted the libffmpeg.so file from there and put it in the Opera directory (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/). -
SilverFox66 last edited by
Wow, what a pain! Thanks for the recommendation. I didnt have the exact version you did (mine was newer but still version 70) but it worked after extracting the file and copying it to Opera. I hate having to do stuff like this, just to make something work. I feel sorry for all the people who are average users, and have no clue how to do something like this... let alone to even know that something like this needs to be done. Thanks again
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A Former User last edited by
I agree it is a pain, and happens everytime there is a new release. What's the big deal for them to wait an extra week or so before releasing the update so that it won't be a broken package. I like my Opera browser for certain functions, but I am getting used to Brave and it seems to be working fine right now.
And to the Opera developers...... quit releasing these broken updates, nobody is going to use a broken browser.
