Cannot Play Videos in Website
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@bobineurope See those topics:
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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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/4And 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 last edited by A Former User
@leocg, @jimunderscorep
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A Former User 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 65So 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 -
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 last edited by
@jimunderscorep Thanks.
I have upgraded to 63. About now saysVersion: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/63.0.3368.94chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is still
Version: 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1and the videos do not play.
I will look at the advice to fix that.
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A Former User 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 928KI 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 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1Googling "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_76.0.3809.132" led me to
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?
- Upstream release: 76.0.3809.132
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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
