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

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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
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            @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 @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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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User @damianw345 last edited by

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

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

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

                            @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
                              ferroao last edited by

                              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
                                nelsinchi @ferroao last edited by

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

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