<![CDATA[media file linked in gmail crashes opera]]>Opera Version:64.0.3380.0
Link to the file
https://ssl.gstatic.com/chat/sounds/incoming_video_short_5abdd7c1c7fa8bbd5d6b4733de315c59.mp3

This file crashes opera as soon as browser tries to open it. There are other sites which also crash when they download media files (other files).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/34390/media-file-linked-in-gmail-crashes-operaRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 08:20:41 GMTSat, 10 Aug 2019 07:48:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:34:42 GMT]]>Since you are on gentoo, can't you just build chromium with libffmpeg and then move it on a location that opera expects to find it, instead of replacing the one opera provides?
Opera looks in these locations for that "better" libffmpeg

$ cat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json
[
  "lib_extra/libffmpeg.so",
  "../../../../chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
  "/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
]
]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178968https://forums.opera.com/post/178968Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:34:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:20:14 GMT]]>@jimunderscorep Copied from locally built chromium quite a few months ago if I remember it right. It's gentoo.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178966https://forums.opera.com/post/178966Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:20:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:52:11 GMT]]>Let me guess.
Was that libffmpeg downloaded and "installed" (= copied to the right place) seperately?
That is what I mean when I talk about the bad side effects of a foreign library on a system.

Expert's advice on the above
From time to time, someone will post a "solution" to the libffmpeg problem. This will either be "install this ubuntu's chromium ffmpeg codecs package by hand to get the... precious html5 support" or "get that tar,gz from herecura's repo, untar it and move libffmpeg to the right place to make it work".
Both are wrong because they refer to packages built for a different distro (ubuntu in the first case, arch in the second), and definitely built with a different set of libraries and compilers. Do not do that unless you want to break your system or browser.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178903https://forums.opera.com/post/178903Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:52:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:33:39 GMT]]>Fixed. Had an old libffmpeg.so in the lib_extra

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178878https://forums.opera.com/post/178878Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:33:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 08:32:15 GMT]]>Please tell me what opera channel you are on (beta or developer) and I will install it and test it there as well.
You are probably not on stable 😛

---edit
I think you are on opera developer. If so, you are 3 minor versions behind (64.0.3380.0 > 64.0.3394.0 > 64.0.3396.0 > 64.0.3401.0), so please update it to the latest one first and check again.

--re-edit
I just checked it and the forementioned mp3 file plays fine on today's opera developer, v 64.0.3401.0.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178809https://forums.opera.com/post/178809Sun, 11 Aug 2019 08:32:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 06:51:33 GMT]]>@jimunderscorep Yest it used to work in the older version, but after upgrade it crashes

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178806https://forums.opera.com/post/178806Sun, 11 Aug 2019 06:51:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to media file linked in gmail crashes opera on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:52:14 GMT]]>That file plays as it should on my opera (v62.0.3331.116, stable channel at the time of writing).

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/178772https://forums.opera.com/post/178772Sat, 10 Aug 2019 18:52:14 GMT