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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      May I have your attention please?

      Chromium 69 was released yesterday =>
      it will soon be on the repos of all major distros =>
      (for ubuntu users) chromium ffmpeg codecs will be upgraded =>
      opera's html5 support will break =>
      whining users will flood the forum again.

      So brace yourselves 😛

      For the rest of us, the debian/mageia/arch/fedora/opensuse/whatever users, the html5 support will remain incomplete as usual.

      Have a nice day 🙂

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @jimunderscorep thannks for the info but how can i get the latest chromium ffmpeg codecs? please help

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          Im having the same issues, along with Dailymotion videos not working at all "Try updating your browser, or use a different one".
          Also, Nicotine is not working properly. It says theres an error due to Upnp support.
          This all came about when I updated to Linux Mint 19. So far, no help from the Update Manager.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Good news everyone!
            Opera 56 reached stable, so it should work with chromium ffmpeg codecs 69, so please do your upgrades and may the "broken html5/h264 support" whining stop for September.
            Thank you 🙂

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Here's answer why OPERA don't play videos.
              0_1538250996625_Opera Snapshot_2018-09-29_204547_blogs.opera.com.png

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              • MGSMSobuj
                MGSMSobuj last edited by

                I solved the problem by updating my opera. My current version is 56.0.3051.43. If anyone has the same issue then go to https://www.opera.com/browser download the latest version(.deb) install it.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  Hey, it's that time of the month again!
                  You know, the one that chromium gets updated from upstream, and a few days later distro's upgrade their chromium related packages.
                  After that, ubuntu users flood the forum whining that opera is broken again.

                  Please be patient 😛

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    any update on this?
                    It kind suck 😞

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      Since nothing has changed, either on opera's side (support for more proprietary codecs) or on the sites' side (support of a different or open format, eg webm), things remain the same.
                      In fact, I think it would be reasonable to say you should not expect a change in the years to come.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User @Guest last edited by

                        Download one of these:
                        https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases
                        And put it into /usr/lib64/opera
                        Overwrite if if there's the same file already

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                        • nelsinchi
                          nelsinchi last edited by

                          I have fixed the issue in my Arch Linux by installing opera-ffmpeg-codecs. I hope this helps to others.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                tihs happened to me and i codunt find any solution for opera .so i uninstalled opera and installed opera -beta or opera developer version instead ..both works properly without any problems playing all videos..

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                                • remitico
                                  remitico @Guest last edited by

                                  @toof Thanks a lot, your solution works perfectly and you saved my time!

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                                  • remitico
                                    remitico @Guest last edited by

                                    @toof On Ubuntu the path is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      @toof This also fixed my issue after literally trying everything else and spending days trying to fix this. Thank you OP!

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                                      • damianw345
                                        damianw345 last edited by

                                        I've created script to automate a bit this thing, which @toof mentioned. It's written for Ubuntu and specific version to be downloaded but you can reassign the values as you need.

                                        #!/bin/bash

                                        zip_name=0.35.4-linux-x64.zip
                                        dir_to_unzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

                                        cd /tmp
                                        wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.35.4/$zip_name -q --show-progress

                                        sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

                                        rm $zip_name

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                                          damianw345 @damianw345 last edited by

                                          @damianw345
                                          Sorry but I couldn't find the edit comment option.

                                          I've updated the script to always download latest version.

                                          #!/bin/bash
                                          
                                          latest_version_url=$(curl https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/latest -s -L -I -o /dev/null -w '%{url_effective}')
                                          latest_version=${latest_version_url##*/}
                                          
                                          zip_name="$latest_version-linux-x64.zip"
                                          
                                          dir_to_unzip=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
                                          
                                          cd /tmp 
                                          wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/$latest_version/$zip_name -q --show-progress
                                          
                                          sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip
                                          
                                          rm $zip_name
                                          
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                                          • alexs
                                            alexs @damianw345 last edited by

                                            My script for me (Debian/sid):

                                            #!/bin/sh
                                            # https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download
                                            
                                            lib_opera=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
                                            dl_url=http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/
                                            dl_package=chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
                                            dl_deb=_73.0.3683.86-0ubuntu0.18.10.1_amd64.deb  # modify the version number
                                            
                                            tmpfolder=/tmp/${dl_package}
                                            mkdir -p ${tmpfolder}
                                            
                                            wget ${dl_url}${dl_package}${dl_deb} -P ${tmpfolder}
                                            cd ${tmpfolder}
                                            
                                            ar -x ${dl_package}${dl_deb}
                                            tar -xJf data.tar.xz
                                            
                                            # with sudo
                                            sudo cp ${tmpfolder}/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so ${lib_opera}/libffmpeg.so
                                            
                                            # without sudo but run the script as root
                                            # cp ${tmpfolder}/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so ${lib_opera}/libffmpeg.so
                                            
                                            cd ..
                                            rm -r ${tmpfolder}
                                            
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