Opera 52, Debian 9 and H.264
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A Former User last edited by
Hi everybody,
I have a problem with my Opera 52 on my Debian Stretch. Some youtube videos will not run.
Youtube tells me that my browser does not support H.264 and MSE & H.264.
I tried to download chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra but I cannot do it on Debian 9 because it needs libc6 27 which is not in "stable". I could download it from Sid repository but I don't want to mix packages just to watch some youtube videos.
Is there a normal solution for such problem? -
A Former User last edited by A Former User
If you intend to stay on opera version 52, you could try this one:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty-updates/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
But, if you upgrade opera to current version 53, try this one:
https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Some people just install the package and it works, but I have never done it that way.
I always add the subdirectory lib_extra to the main opera program directory, then extract the libffmpeg.so from the deb and place it there, with a script or manually.
Generally speaking, the Xenial repository of ubuntu is the more closely aligned with Stretch.
A good summary of the overall situation with chromium like browsers on various distros is available here:
https://gist.github.com/ruario/bec42d156d30affef655 -
A Former User last edited by
Please read the thread in my signature. It answers every single question you have, including the why you should NOT install something made for another distro.
Debian testing x64 user.
