Widevine and Opera

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

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@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

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@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.

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@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 @Host

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.

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@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

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@fiambredunicornio thnx, this works for me

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@zekemx said in Widevine and Opera:

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

Hi. New user. This worked for me after trying absolutely everything. Realy, thank you. More specified, for not advanced users of linux like me:

Downloaded, in the download folder, the latest libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/
In the terminal, replaced the original Opera file in the sistem with the newer version I downloaded, did this:
A) Went to the folder where I downloaded the file with the "cd" command (note that the folder is named Descargas, in spanish): cd Descargas
Then, moved the file (need the sudo command): sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Now, can use Spotify perfectly, as well as Netflix.

Thanks.

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Can someone prove or confirm that spotify uses drm, so as to justify the use of libwidevine that this thread is about?
Else, if everything is fixed by installing the "other" libffmpeg, it is not a drm issue, but the wll known "poor codec support" one.

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@Pibe Thank you for your tip.
Unfortunatly it doesn't work for me.
I have opera 63 on linux 64 bit.
I have done each step you recommand and after I have the error :
Code d'erreur : O7701-1003
Impossible to find WidevineCdm on the computer.
I have chrome on the same computer and it works fine.

gregurbi

gregurbi @Host

@pm38 said in Widevine and Opera:

@Pibe Thank you for your tip.
Unfortunatly it doesn't work for me.
I have opera 63 on linux 64 bit.
I have done each step you recommand and after I have the error :
Code d'erreur : O7701-1003
Impossible to find WidevineCdm on the computer.
I have chrome on the same computer and it works fine.

It doesn't work for me too.

zekemx

zekemx @Host

@jimunderscorep Hi,.... Opera did not work with spotify but once I replaced libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/ spotify started working great.

zekemx

zekemx @gregurbi

@gregurbi what distro do you use?.

In some distros you need to add libffmpeg.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

I'm using Mageia 7.1 64bit and I had to install it to /usr/lib64/opera

Just replace the one that comes included with your opera installation with the one from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/

Regards

zekemx

zekemx

One tip...

Visit https://html5test.com and make sure H.264 support is enabled on the Video Section.. otherwise widevine will not work.

It seems widevine requires H.264 support.

Regards