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    • lu-menard
      lu-menard last edited by

      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 ?

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      • graba
        graba last edited by

        Hi.
        I found this topic via small bash file to update h264 in opera-developer.
        Every time when come new release i run script as sudo and working perfecly.

        Thank You

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        • artoria026
          artoria026 @Guest last edited by

          @mcarletti Thanks friend, your script has worked perfectly for me, and thanks to the friend who provided the solution

          KDE Neon 20.04 Kernel 5.4.0-70generic

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          • gidici61
            gidici61 last edited by gidici61

            Hi, still problems. None of the suggested workarounds work. I have Opera Stable 79.0.4143.50 on Debian 11. Try this page, for example: https://www.svtplay.se/video/30708050/rapport/rapport-24-sep-22-25
            After "Page Crash" I need to type (as root): "apt reinstall opera-stable" to reset Opera.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @gidici61 last edited by

              @gidici61 Hi, gidici61. I am the original creator of this post. I created it on August 22, 2019 and until today, that is, two years later, Opera developers still do not support h.264 codec for Linux. After this update from Opera 79, even this solution that was created by independent developers no longer works. I personally gave up using Opera and switched to Brave Browser. I suggest you do the same. At least Brave Browser has constant updates for Linux and natively supports the h.264 codec.

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              • gidici61
                gidici61 @Guest last edited by

                @pinportal said in Opera Linux browser - h.264 support (through x264 open source codec):

                Brave Browser

                Thank you, I'll give it a try. Opera is nearly unuseful without x264 support.

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                • gidici61
                  gidici61 last edited by gidici61

                  Finally, this works with Opera 90.0.4480.80: https://gist.github.com/mcarletti/7989d1c04199dba60a01adf8ac54fe31

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                  • jhog
                    jhog last edited by

                    I have version 91.0.4516.20 and I get the error "Sorry, we're having trouble playing this video." for some Facebook videos. I tried the script, also disabling hardware acceleration, copying libffmpeg.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/ . I also have the proprietary codecs installed (ubuntu-restricted-extras). It used to work but I lost all my configurations some time ago and now it doesn't work.

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                    • styen
                      styen @jhog last edited by

                      @jhog simply use https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
                      But first reinstall Opera

                      sudo apt reinstall opera-stable
                      
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                      • jhog
                        jhog @styen last edited by

                        @styen Thanks, that worked! I was thinking I'd need Widevine, but didn't find good instructions of how to install it tho doing some searching. What I found was this but it didn't help: https://forums.opera.com/topic/28663/widevine-and-opera/65 . You could mark this thread as outdated, bad (?), or post the link you sent here in that thread. I didn't need to reinstall Opera btw.

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                        • jhog
                          jhog last edited by

                          Someone could make a webpage out of this issue including the github link! I couldn't find this information doing searches with Google, Duckduckgo.

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