Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec)
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 07:30
i totally agree.
i've had to change to the Snap package to get around this situation.
plus, Vivaldi on Linux doesn't have this problem....
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 08:12
@adasiko
My fault... x264 it’s only ENCODER.
Read my comment as:
It is not true. Chrome use built in open source codecs (ffmpeg). But Google paid royalty for it.
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 11:23
Vivaldi is an electon app, so it may use electron's libffmpeg, like the other electron based apps do.
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 13:16
@ultravio1et said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
plus, Vivaldi on Linux doesn't have this problem....
It’s hard to say «doesn’t have this problem»
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12973/video-playback-problems-troubleshooting-and-solutions-on-linux
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 14:32
@adasiko said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
@ultravio1et said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
plus, Vivaldi on Linux doesn't have this problem....
It’s hard to say «doesn’t have this problem»
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12973/video-playback-problems-troubleshooting-and-solutions-on-linux
i should of said: "i've never had this problem with Vivaldi"
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 15:49
So Opera can introduce OpenH264 codec inside Opera browser. It is open source and free too.
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A Former User last edited by 23 Aug 2019, 15:53
@pinportal said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
So Opera can introduce OpenH264 codec inside Opera browser. It is open source and free too.
No.. It's described in Bugzilla bugreport (link is upper in this thread).
The are not any free and normal codecs to use for commercial browser. -
A Former User last edited by 11 Sept 2019, 08:18
Hi, first post here
@pinportal Thanks for the solution. It worked!I wrote a script to "upgrade" Opera according to your instructions:
https://gist.github.com/mcarletti/7989d1c04199dba60a01adf8ac54fe31Hope this helps!
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bert56237 last edited by 17 Aug 2020, 20:06
@pinportal said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
The Linux community has long been asking Opera to support the h.264 codec in Opera Browser for Linux.
We know that h.264 is a proprietary format. However, Firefox browser worked around this problem, it uses the codec x264 (free and open-source software library which uses GNU General Public License and it is developed by VideoLAN)
The x264 codec allows browsers to support h.264 codec videos.
For my Opera browser to support h.264, I need to open the terminal and type this command with each new Opera browser update:
curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.39.2/0.39.2-linux-x64.zipunzip 0.39.2-linux-x64.zip
sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
But less experienced users don't even know there is this option, they simply can't watch videos on Facebook.com, Twitter.com and Youtube.com Live videos, as they rely on the h.264 codec
That's why Opera Browser needs to support the h.264 codec or at least x264 codec (which will not generate license costs for Opera and will once and for all solve this problem that only affects Opera Browser on Linux since Google Chrome and Firefox have been supporting the h.264 codec for a long time, even indirectly via the x264 codec)
I have Lubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (based on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS) 64bits and Linux 4.15.0-58 kernel
Thank you for this information! I have Linux Mint LTS 20.0 Cinnamon 64B. I just followed your directions and all videos are now working perfectly including on Twitter.
Earlier I had also installed the following packages, so I just left them and followed your directions.
Ubuntu-restricted-extras
Multimedia Codecs
Chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
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A Former User last edited by A Former User 17 Aug 2020, 20:36 17 Aug 2020, 20:33
@bert56237 You are welcome.
Just remember to install the most updated version here: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/Today it is 0.47.2 and not 0.39.2, that I wrote a year ago. Today you have to do it:
curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.47.2/0.47.2-linux-x64.zip
unzip 0.47.2-linux-x64.zip
sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
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bert56237 last edited by 17 Aug 2020, 22:01
@pinportal Thanks again. I just updated, working perfectly!!!
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red last edited by 31 Aug 2020, 15:00
@pinportal
Hi!
There's an even better way:curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.47.2/0.47.2-linux-x64.zip unzip 0.47.2-linux-x64.zip sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extraOpera will automatically use the version in lib_extra and the mod will survive opera upgrades. So you'll only need to do this once.
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A Former User last edited by 1 Sept 2020, 20:39
@red Hey, thank you very very much for your help!
I didnt know it. I hope that one day Opera for linux will offer this natively. Many lay users do not see these forums and do not even know how to use the terminal. -
A Former User last edited by 1 Sept 2020, 20:43
@bert56237 Hello, see the @red comment. You will have to do this only once. Even if Opera update the browser, h.264 will continue being support:
curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.47.2/0.47.2-linux-x64.zip
unzip 0.47.2-linux-x64.zip
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra
sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra
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arch3rtemp last edited by 11 Oct 2020, 17:11
@A-Former-User said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
So, as I have also said in the post on my signature, if you are on ubuntu or some derivative, install chromium ffmpeg codecs and you are done.
There are no chromium codecs in Ubuntu repositories anymore, neither in Snap
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A Former User last edited by 15 Oct 2020, 18:28
@arch3rtemp said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):
There are no chromium codecs in Ubuntu repositories anymore, neither in Snap
Still available in Snap as "chromium-ffmpeg". For me, it doesn't automatically work, but you can link directly from the snap and it works fine.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra && \ sudo ln -fst /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/ /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-92972/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so && \ echo -e "\n\nLink successful, restart Opera and it should work." -
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swnw last edited by 15 Nov 2020, 08:22
@pinportal Thanks a lot, "simple"
and effective way, but why Opera developers are silent. I read a lot of advises and no one was from opera team. -
paul-keenan last edited by 20 Nov 2020, 22:26
@pinportal Thanks!, I should try it. The older 2018 post below, from burnout426, is very similar and it also works on Mint 20, and I haven't noticed any side effects so far:
**burnout426 Jul 5, 2018, 5:35 PM
@drpostman A little bit better directions.Start Opera, goto, https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/ and download the 0.31.4-linux-x64.zip file. In Opera's download dialog, click the folder icon to show the file in the file manager. Right-click it and choose "Extract here". This will give you libffmpeg.so.
Right-click in a blank spot in the file manager and choose "open as root" and type in your password. Then, right-click on libffmpeg.so and choose cut.
Then, in the file manager, browser to "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/". Right-click in a blank spot and choose to create a new folder named lib_extra. Once the folder is created, go into it, right-click on a blank spot and choose paste. You should then see libffmpeg.so there. Then, restart Opera and goto https://youtube.com/html5 to see if h.264 support is enabled for example. Then, test out some videos. On youtube, you can right-click on a video and choose "stats for nerds" to see if it's using vp9 or h.264. Or, you can try these h.264 videos to make sure they work.
You can then close the file manager.
(Tested on Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon x64)**
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lu-menard last edited by 10 Dec 2020, 09:43
My Opera works fine with Youtube and satisfies the requirings on this test page
On a precise webcam website it displays only a bad video stream as chrome and Firefox displays 1080p video stream, do you think I am concerned by this discussion ?
