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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      For future reference, i.e. for the time opera's version catches up with today's chromium ffmpeg codec's version and you will all be able to watch h264 content again.

      Install the h264ify extension to force youtube use h264 instead of webm for its videos. H264 is hardware accelerated, webm is not, so your gpu will do all the hard work if needed, resulting in a smoother playback.
      https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal

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

        @jimunderscorep said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

        For future reference, i.e. for the time opera's version catches up with today's chromium ffmpeg codec's version and you will all be able to watch h264 content again.

        Install the h264ify extension to force youtube use h264 instead of webm for its videos. H264 is hardware accelerated, webm is not, so your gpu will do all the hard work if needed, resulting in a smoother playback.
        https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihdccplidncghkekgioiakgal

        Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

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        • A Former User
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          @the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

          Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

          https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001
          https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294
          https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

          “Our goal is to have a Stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second, when possible. As we found out time and again, any sort of GPU acceleration has a lot of maintenance associated with it, between the multitude of configurations our users run, the general lack of quality of drivers (in particular on Linux), and the constant stream of incoming issue due to new hardware, driver, or distribution release.”

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          • cybrsaylr
            cybrsaylr @Guest last edited by

            @catha said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

            @cybrsaylr Used to I took Firefox for videos but they did something that it slows down my notebook during watching videos.

            So I changed to opera but now I have the same problem with opera too. Don't know what they changed that it happens with Opera too.

            Seems I need change to Vivaldi now. Vivaldi still does its job without slowing down my notebook.

            *sighs

            Have Vivaldi and liked it because it was pretty solid but right now Vivaldi won't play videos either just like Opera won't play videos.

            Firefox and Chrome play videos fine with no issues.

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @cybrsaylr last edited by

              Both have a license that allows them to play media with proprietary codecs without depending on the system.

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              • A Former User
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                @adasiko said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

                @the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

                Why VP8 and VP9 aren't hardware accelerated?

                https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=370001
                https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/532294
                https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

                “Our goal is to have a Stable and secure browser first, and a GPU-accelerated one second, when possible. As we found out time and again, any sort of GPU acceleration has a lot of maintenance associated with it, between the multitude of configurations our users run, the general lack of quality of drivers (in particular on Linux), and the constant stream of incoming issue due to new hardware, driver, or distribution release.”

                These bugs are about video acceleration as whole, not specifically about VP8/9. If Chromium doesn't use GPU on Linux, then h264 will be eating CPU as well.

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                • gseva
                  gseva @nexayq last edited by

                  @nexayq
                  Solution is simpler than this one.
                  You already have needed library on your system.

                  dpkg -S libffmpeg.so

                  chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
                  opera-stable: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

                  sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig

                  ln -S /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so

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                  • ctrlaltdel
                    ctrlaltdel @gseva last edited by

                    @gseva

                    Correct. This is the easiest solution and the one I have been using for quite a while now. To put it in plain words, for those that may not understand your commands, they can do this:

                    To Force Opera and Vivaldi to Play h.264 Files:

                    libffmpeg.so

                    The file above must be replaced.

                    Opera's file is at user/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

                    Vivaldi's file is at opt/vivaldi/lib

                    and it must be replaced with

                    libffmpeg.so

                    from user/lib/chromium-browser

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

                      @the-spyke-0 said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

                      VP8/9. If Chromium doesn't use GPU

                      It's not simple... For VP9 GPU decoding in Chromium you needs modern Hardware (Intel GPU from 2016 or newer).
                      AMD and NVIDIA have many problems with it on Linux.

                      And opera doesn't supoort it at all. Too many problems and bugs...

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        I had read an article a while ago about h264/5 vs vp8/9 and it said that one of the major reasons h264/5 is more widely spread is because it is backed by companies like intel and arm, thus it gets more attention I will post it when I find it.

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                        • cybrsaylr
                          cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr

                          Updated to Vivaldi 2.4.1488.35 (Stable channel) (64-bit) a few hours ago and can happily report Videos now play fine on Vivaldi, along with videos playing fine on Firefox and Chrome.

                          Wish Opera could do the same.

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                          • fornero
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                            Opera Version: 58.0.3135.127 Opera is up to date but some Videos don't play

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                            • cybrsaylr
                              cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr

                              Well I have an interim solution until Opera 58 corrects this chronic video issue. My main PC has a couple extra drives on it with older versions on Linux and they still have the older Opera 56 version that plays all vids fine. Don't believe Opera lets you go back to older Opera versions anymore but I have them. Just will make sure NOT to upgrade Opera 56 while running this older version and I'm good to go.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                My problem is that I can't find the opera libffmpeg file. I can't even find the opera folder in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
                                I tried to find a opera/libfmpeg.so structure. the only place I could find one/two was at ./snap/opera/{31/30}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so. But if I try to cd to there I can only get to ./snap/opera/30 but no further as there doesn't seam to be anything in the directory.
                                So how do I get the correct libffmpeg.so file?
                                the "good" ffmpeg.so file from chromium I can find in the right directory( /usr/lib/chromium-browser)
                                some requisit information:
                                Ubuntu 18.10
                                I currently have opera (58.0.3....) aswell as opera-beta(60.0.3....) and even opera-dev (61.0.3) installed.
                                therefore i would expect there to be more then 2 libffmpeg.so files associated with opera. So should I remove the beta and dev branch?

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                                • cybrsaylr
                                  cybrsaylr last edited by

                                  Today my problem was solved. After updates were installed videos now play again for Opera Version:58.0.3135.127.

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                                  • cybrsaylr
                                    cybrsaylr last edited by cybrsaylr

                                    Videos still play fine. Showing the current 'Chromium Codecs extra' I have installed now.
                                    Screenshot from 2019-04-05 11-40-51.png

                                    Now this below is the OP codecs extra that did not play videos from 15 days ago! Why?

                                    Screenshot from 2019-04-05 11-48-39.png

                                    Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play, was the Opera version run 15 days ago.

                                    Opera Version:58.0.3135.127 is the version running today. Is this the reason videos now play?

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      Simple Solution

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

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

                                          @salehawal thx, it's works

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

                                            @salehawal said in Opera Version:58.0.3135.117 Opera is up to date but Videos don't play:

                                            Simple Solution

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

                                            What distro is that from? I guess ubuntu...

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