Netflix on Linux Ubuntu

A Former User

I am using Linux Ubuntu (18.04) Since I started using Ubuntu I can not watch Netflix, when playing netflix I come to a page abut demands of "HTML5" and "Silvernight" player. Is there anyone who knows a way fixing this and play Netflix on Linux with Opera Browser?

A Former User

Please read this thread here about widevine and you will understand that there is no support for widevine in opera for linux
https://forums.opera.com/topic/28663/widevine-and-opera

p.s. Winevide is a key library for playing drm content like netflix.

A Former User @Guest

@jimunderscorep okay thanks for help

johnnyboycurtis

johnnyboycurtis

On Ubuntu 16/18 LTS, you can bring support for Netflix by copying the libffmpeg file from Google Chrome. You can run the simple command:

sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

A Former User

I can confirm that copying the libffmpeg file from Google Chrome works on Kubuntu 19.04 as well.

cegalvao

cegalvao @Guest

@NikoZ Also on Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa.

lLuisPaulop

lLuisPaulop @johnnyboycurtis

@johnnyboycurtis thank you

A Former User

Can confirm this works perfectly in Mint 18.3

A Former User

After the most recent Opera update it seems to work out of the box

I'm on Mint as well and was just using Firefox for video since I'm lazy. Then updated and it works. Decided to try it after noticing videos on websites were playing more efficiently.

A Former User

Are you on regular opera or snap?
Also, may I ask what version of chromium does ubuntu have right now in its repos? I assume it is 75.x, which is still compatible with chromium-75-based opera 62.
Keep in mind though that chromium 76 was released a couple of days ago, so things will break again once ubuntu packages it.

A Former User @Guest

@jimunderscorep Cancel that - it doesn't work anymore, after another update. You're right, things broke again lol.

Regular opera. Yep 76

A Former User

It is because opera was updated to chromium 76.0.3809.132 while chromium on the ubuntu (and debian) repos is still stuck on 76.0.3809.100.
For once, the opera devs surpassed the ubuntu ones in keeping the package up to date!

l33t4opera

l33t4opera @Guest

Hi @jwalker8 You can add the the line/repo: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu ubuntu-name-matching-your-mint-version* main to your /etc/apt/sources.list, and update the package (it's already @132 there), or simply download the appropriate pkg for you Ubuntu version from here, and install it manually.
* e.g. bionic.

By the way: the version .100 is still working here, when I add a symbolic link to the lib in "/opera's-installation-root/lib_extra/link-to-the-libffmpeg.so".

johnnyboycurtis

johnnyboycurtis @Guest

@jwalker8 have you tried running the command,

sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

It requires a recent version of Google Chrome and Opera. This provides a support fix for Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Video.

A Former User

@cegalvao @NikoZ

Thank you for your feed back.
I tryed to copy the libffmpeg of Google Chrome (from sudo nautilus session) ... But I can't. My google Chrome is a snap installation. Do you have a tip ?
Thank you a lot.

A Former User @Guest

@pm38
I have found the reason, I used an snap package.
I have copied the libffmpeg.so into Opera folder.
Now video are running on Twitter, but not in netflix.
Always same error is wrotten : Code d'erreur : O7701-1003
Widevinecdm is missing. I have chrome also in the same computer and everything is fine with chrome (netflis runs).
Thank you for your help.

johnnyboycurtis

johnnyboycurtis @johnnyboycurtis

My answer below is no longer usable on Ubuntu 19.10 and later.

@johnnyboycurtis said in Netflix on Linux Ubuntu:

On Ubuntu 16/18 LTS, you can bring support for Netflix by copying the libffmpeg file from Google Chrome. You can run the simple command:
sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

Please refer to the following article for an updated solution Widevine + H.264 Support on Ubuntu 19.10

Best,
Jonathan

mpvrisavant

mpvrisavant

I have a same problem. If you have google chrome you can do this for widevine.

ll /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/
ll /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/
ll /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/

in this path if you have "libwidevinecdm.so" you have to copy path "widevine_config.json" this file.
your file like this:

cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
[
   {
      "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so"
   },
   {
      "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdm.so"
   },
   {
      "preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdm.so"
   }
]

first copy "libwidevinecdm.so" /opt/google/chrome
sudo cp /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so /opt/google/chrome

then add to this file path widevine_config.json.

sudo nano /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/widevine_config.json
add this line:

  "plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"

then file like this:
[
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so",
"plugin" : "/opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdmadapter.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-beta/libwidevinecdm.so"
},
{
"preload" : "/opt/google/chrome-unstable/libwidevinecdm.so"
}
]

don't forget the "," :).
hope it helps.

johnnyboycurtis

johnnyboycurtis

Consider reviewing the answer on Widevine + H.264 Support on Ubuntu 19.10
for support Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, etc...