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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      As far as I can see, all videos on www.linkedin.com produce the message "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported" instead of showing the video. I have noticed this on other websites also.

      I am using Opera Version:62.0.3331.43 on
      System:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (x86_64; MATE)

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        N.B. The same page in, for example, the Vivaldi browser has no problems.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

          @bobineurope See those topics:

          https://forums.opera.com/topic/31472/opera-version-58-0-3135-117-opera-is-up-to-date-but-videos-don-t-play/

          https://forums.opera.com/topic/33466/videos-in-html5-will-not-work/

          https://forums.opera.com/topic/33148/solved-ubuntu-16-04-video-problem/

          Among others.

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

            @bobineurope And current stable version is 63.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by A Former User

              Since you are already on ubuntu, install chromium ffmpeg codecs and you are probably done. If you are not done, it is because of this
              https://forums.opera.com/topic/31273/netflix-on-linux-ubuntu/4

              And please read the post on my signature to understand the why behind all that. And make sure you are using the latest opera (v63) and install the deb of it package, not the snap one.

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

                @leocg, @jimunderscorep
                Thanks, I'll give those ideas a go.

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                • sgunhouse
                  sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  Can you update to a more recent version of Ubuntu? Opera doesn't work well with 16.04.

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

                    @jimunderscorep
                    I see that you mention:

                    As for the versions, regardless of the naming they are given (stable, beta and developer). Let me explain with a... really bad looking table
                    
                    Opera version	Chromium version it is based on	Chromium's codecs version that opera needs to work properly
                    49	62	62
                    50	63	63
                    51	64	64
                    52	65	65
                    

                    So does that mean that the Opera version is always 13 behind the Chromium version?

                    My Chromium is

                    apt show chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
                    Package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
                    Version: 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
                    
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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      I never noticed the difference as a plain number to be honest. The best way to know on which version of chromium yout opera is based is to visit opera://about and check the browser identification part for something like this

                      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36 OPR/63.0.3368.94

                      Did you install chromium ffmpeg codecs extra? If you did and it still does not work, it is because of the reason I said in the other thread, with the version mismatch (76.0.3809.100 on chromium codecs vs 76.0.3809.132 on opera 63).

                      Also, make sure you are using the latest version of opera, i.e. 63.

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

                        @jimunderscorep Thanks.
                        I have upgraded to 63. About now says

                        Version:63.0.3368.94
                        Update stream:Stable
                        System:Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (x86_64; MATE)
                        Browser identification
                        Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36 OPR/63.0.3368.94

                        chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is still
                        Version: 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

                        and the videos do not play.

                        I will look at the advice to fix that.

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

                          @jimunderscorep Ah, right. Maybe there is no fix.

                          I looked at
                          http://ppa.launchpad.net/canonical-chromium-builds/stage/ubuntu/pool/main/c/chromium-browser/?C=M;O=D
                          but it only has
                          [ ] chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_77.0.3865.90-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_arm64.deb 2019-09-21 20:34 928K

                          I looked at
                          https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/
                          but it only has
                          2019-08-15 16:46:01 UTC Published Ubuntu Xenial amd64 updates universe web Optional 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

                          Googling "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_76.0.3809.132" led me to

                          https://launchpad.net/~canonical-chromium-builds/+archive/ubuntu/stage/+sourcepub/10438881/+listing-archive-extra

                          which says

                          "Publishing details
                          Removed from disk on 2019-09-14.
                          Removal requested on 2019-09-13.
                          Superseded on 2019-09-10 by chromium-browser - 77.0.3865.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
                          Published on 2019-08-26
                          Changelog
                          chromium-browser (76.0.3809.132-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

                          • Upstream release: 76.0.3809.132
                            • CVE-2019-5869: Use-after-free in Blink.
                          • debian/tests/chromium-version: revert the last update test, the
                            chromedriver API change isn't present in xenial's selenium"

                          It would be nice is there were a few microseconds when the version used by Opera coincided with the versions available to install.

                          Could Opera not organise a mirror site where the versions of chromium ffmpeg codecs extra needed by its browser were available to download?

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                          • undencem
                            undencem last edited by

                            I have updated Opera Browser to 63.0.3368.107 latest version .Still having video format not supported issue. I can run Youtube but the other videos fail

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