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Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint

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  • nelsinchi

    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

    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

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

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  • remitico

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

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  • jera

    @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

    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
    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

    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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  • athe1st

    @damianw345 your script worked for me. Thank you very much!

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  • unsalkorkmaz

    If you came for Centos 7, just run this:

    #!/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/lib64/opera

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

sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

rm $zip_name
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  • waller-acid

    @unsalkorkmaz said in Can't play facebook videos or GIFS in Opera w/Linux Mint:

    If you came for Centos 7, just run this:

    #!/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/lib64/opera

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

sudo unzip -o $zip_name -d $dir_to_unzip

rm $zip_name

    Thanks, this also works in fedora 31

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  • ferroao

    I think chromium solutions do not work any more, for being based on snaps now.
    I did: sudo cp /usr/share/discord/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

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  • nelsinchi

    @ferroao Hi, make sure you have opera-ffmpeg-codecs installed, I only need to install opera plus that package in my Arch Linux and it works successfully.

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  • carolb

    Facebook was not playing videos. other browsers were playing the videos (chrome, firefox,). fixed by downloading Opera messenger add on

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