Widevine and Opera

zekemx

zekemx

Too bad Opera doesn't support widevine on linux. It is a great web browser with very nice features but I usually watch netflix and have whatsapp on another tab firefox to be aware of my messages while charging my phone.

Please Opera, fix this!!

Why it does work on Windows and Not Linux (It's not fair to ignore linux)

zekemx

zekemx

Oh My God!!

No spotify support eigther?

Good bye Opera!

Just don't say ther was no linux user support... It was opera that didn't support Linux at least as Firefox or Chrome does..

Regards

A Former User

Can you prove that spotify needs widevine to work? I have no account there and I do not intend to make one so as to check.
I know that netflix does need widevine, but I have never heard about spotify needing it too.

zekemx

zekemx @Guest

@jimunderscorep said in Widevine and Opera:

jimunderscorep

Hello jimunderscorep

You can create a free spotify account.

Once I login to play.spotify.com I got this:

For: Google Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.

If you see the message “Playback of protected content is not enabled” (or a similar error message) when you try to use the web player, you simply need to enable the Widevine plugin or download a media pack. Select your browser below to find out how.

Note: Enabling the plugin requires no download and will not compromise your online security.

On Opera for Windows I could not make spotify Play, probably since it was downloading widevine. I tried music.google.com and I could not play music eigther, but after a minute I was able to play on both of them.

I really like Opera, it has very nice features but it lacks of widevine. I saw that there is a config file pointing to google chrome,s widevine libraries but it still does not work..

I hope this is fixed soon and I bet many Linux users would use Opera as default.

Regards

zekemx

zekemx @Guest

@jimunderscorep

Wow!! I just tried this page:

http://get.adobe.com/es/flashplayer/about/

And flash is blocked even if I choose to let flash to be executed.

Opera Linux is still blocking flash content.

I right click and choose Run Plugin and it still does not work.

Opera Linux looks nice and works fast.. But... still needs to get this fixed.

I you soon to becone an Opera user.

Regards

A Former User

Hi guys

From this link : Flash drm content

Warning:

The NPAPI plugin flashplugin supported DRM until version 11.2.202.644. The PPAPI pepper-flash has never supported DRM at all. As of May 2017, there is no known way to use Flash DRM content with the current versions both plugins.

Fix :

DRM content on Flash still requires HAL to play. This is apparent for example with WatchESPN, HBO GO, or Demand 5 (Channel 5 UK). If you attempt to play a DRM-protected content without HAL, you may see the following error: an error occurred and your player could not be updated.

To deliver DRM-protected content, Flash calls several functions provided by the HAL daemon and its libraries. While Flash-based players remain popular, HAL has been deprecated and is not commonly installed on newer systems. To provide the necessary HAL functionality on such systems, you can either install the full HAL package and run the HAL daemon or install a modified HAL library "stub" that uses the modern UDisks daemon instead.

Food for thought

zekemx

zekemx @Guest

@loup001

Hello

On Google Chrome I enabled flash playback with no success, it might be what you mentioned.

Flash on firefox for linux works great as well as widevine on both firefox and google chrome.

Unfortunately Opera does not and there seems no interest in opera to fix this.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer

Try this:

Install Chrome using the deb package
Install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package: sudo apt update && sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Install Opera using the deb package

Note: Not a Linux user myself, so I can't check if it works

A Former User

@leocg

Why install those ?
The only package required for flash is pepper flash.

From previous post :

The NPAPI plugin flashplugin supported DRM until version 11.2.202.644. The PPAPI pepper-flash has never supported DRM at all. As of May 2017, there is no known way to use Flash DRM content with the current versions both plugins.

@zekemx

Hi

Maybe your distro is also impacted by glibc
See this post : Flash not working

zekemx

zekemx @Guest

@loup001

I just ran Opera -no-sandbox

Flash player works great.

Still no widevine yet... So I cannot play spotify or netflix in Opera Linux.

A Former User @zekemx

@zekemx

From arch wiki : Widevine

Companies including Amazon Video, BBC, Hulu, Netflix and Spotify secure premium content using Widevine DRM

The PPAPI pepper-flash has never supported DRM at all

Sooooooooooooo ... for netflix and spotify use firefox.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest

We are not talking about Flash but about Widevine.

zekemx

zekemx @leocg

@leocg

Exactly..

I started this thread about Widevine but it became Flash...

I really want widevine to work.. Flash is not that used anymore anyway.

A Former User

@leocg
@zekemx

It's been a looooooooong day.

Sorry my bad !

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @zekemx

Did you try the tip I've posted?

fiambredunicornio

fiambredunicornio

What I did was install chrome and copied the widevine file to a different directory (cp /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so /opt/widevine/), then edited /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json to preload that new location. Then proceeded to purge google chrome and it kept working on opera.
Hope this can help

zibi1981

zibi1981 @fiambredunicornio

@fiambredunicornio Does this mean you were able to make Widevine/DRM work on Opera? What does this page say to you?

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @zibi1981

@zibi1981 Widevine has worked again for a while on Linux in Opera. Netflix still wasn't working but Netflix fixed the issue themselves on 5/23/2019 and it was confirmed fixed by Opera. Also, this user confirmed it's fixed on Ubuntu for example. Proprietary codecs are still working correctly in Opera too. see <https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/bcjpne/howto_opera_60_h264_in_ubuntu_1404/ for example. Things have been tested on the page you mention too.

zekemx

zekemx

Hello

It all has to do with "libffmpeg.so" included with opera for Linux.
Replace it with this one - > https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/

Once replaced you will have h264 and widevine support.

I looked everywhere to fix widevine support, but once I found out how to fix h264 that widevine (AFAIK) requires, everything started working.

It's too bad Opera hasn't fix this or doesn't care...

I hope this helps..

Regards
Ezequiel Partida

A Former User @fiambredunicornio

@fiambredunicornio thnx, this works for me