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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 @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
                              carolb last edited by

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

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