[Solved]Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon)
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xZero last edited by xZero
@firigion My script supports overriding default directory. You just shall call it like so:
sudo /bin/bash opera-fix-ffmpeg.sh /path/to/your-opera-installationNot sure how to work around snap Opera though. You see, snap is by default just an image that provides all dependencies to Opera. Naturally so, you cannot modify it, therefore read-only directory.
@annevance This explains why my script doesn't work for you. I doubt any solution here will work for Snap packaged Opera, unless you can make Opera load the library from somewhere else.
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Firigion last edited by
@xzero I ended up deleting my installation and re-installing opera, an now the installation directory is somewhere in
/usr/lib, not in/snap. Now I ran your script and it said it worked correctly, but stuff like Netflix and Spotify still didn't work after resetting the browser. Is there something else I can take a look at to maybe fix it? -
launcher last edited by
Live streams on youtube and twitch didn't work, this fixed it, thank you. Lubuntu btw
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drpeppercan last edited by
@xzero Unfortunately this didn't work for me in Pop OS. It did the opposite: Opera wouldn't open afterwards. It did again when I renamed the libffmpeg.so back to its original name though.
I am so tired of this issue that I resorted to install Spotify as a stand-alone app. -
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xZero last edited by
@Firigion Can you post script output?
Weird that it doesn't work, because it does work for me every time I need it. But again, I use Manjaro which is very different from Ubuntu/Debian. I'll try testing this script more in different distributions VM-s.@drpeppercan Can you send the script output? It feels like it didn't do everything it should have done.
- Script creates backup of libffmpeg.so by renaming it
- Script then installs new version of libffmpeg through snap and creates symbolic link named "libffmpeg.so" that points to the newly installed libffmpeg snap.
- Script is basically wrapper of multiple solutions found in this thread.
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xZero last edited by xZero
I have tested a bit.
- On Ubuntu 20.04, snap opera works out of the box. Opera deb from the official website doesn't, but my script fixes it just fine by supplying Opera path as argument '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera'.
I'll test more on Pop OS and other distros.
In meanwhile, make sure to close the Opera before running the script, as that could cause issues. -
Firigion last edited by
@xzero Right now, if I rerun the script it just says that
Symlink is already up to date. Nothing to do., and the first time I ran it, it output all the good output messages (I read the script to see what it did, so I saw the conditions for the output messages. The fact that Opera for Ubuntu 20.04 works out of the box for you is... well, strange? Since it doesn't for me. Maybe the issue was that I ran it with Opera running. I'll reinstall it sometime later when I don't need to use it. -
operafan123 last edited by
@nickonicko said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@zarathustra-f90
Thank you for your help.
It works !!!When I symlink that library Opera refuses to start. Changing in back to the original library, and Opera works again
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@operafan123 Did you install the right version for your version of Opera? What version of Chromium is listed on the About Opera page?
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operafan123 last edited by
Version:75.0.3969.93
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Linux Mint 20.1 (x86_64; X-Cinnamon)
Rate Opera
Opera help
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/75.0.3969.93 -
sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@operafan123 And did you install the codecs for Chromium 89.0?
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operafan123 last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@operafan123 And did you install the codecs for Chromium 89.0?
I simply followed the instructions from the above original post
"First of all, you need to install the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package. You can do this using the terminal with the following command:
sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Usually the second step is to create a symlink for the file libffmpeg.so, but since now the Opera browser delivers a file with this name (but not solving the problem), we will delete it and then create a simlink to the new file. File deletion:
sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
Creating a simlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/"I will also add that a fresh install does not work - even on a new machine, yet a fresh install of Vivaldi, and Chrome both work with Netflix without problems
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operafan123 last edited by
@sgunhouse said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@operafan123 Netflix will also require widevine.
Of course, and it's there and updated to the latest
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nneo16 last edited by nneo16
@operafan123 Try rename the original file and replace with that file from chromium package. I don't understand why we should use a symlink here.
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niepiekm last edited by
@zarathustra-f90
Thanks, this worked for me to on Ubuntu 20.04 and Opera installed with APT. -
RungeKutta last edited by
Hi, I create a script to download and install ffmpeg lib on linux and fix this problem with opera:
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miqwalsh last edited by miqwalshI re-package this into a 'portable' version for the Puppy Linux community. Portable applications work very well for Puppy's somewhat unusual method of operation.
I get libffmpeg.so & Widevine for Opera by the simple expedient of using the updater scripts supplied by Vivaldi for their browser. As noted above, it doesn't matter how you actually obtain these; what matters is that you end up with the specific version compiled to work with the particular release of Chromium that Opera has been built around.
If you run the script from your /home 'user' directory, the scripts will write the 'codecs' directory, containing libffmpeg.so, to /var/opt. You'll get a sym-link appear which you can delete; simply copy libffmpeg.so across to the location where Opera expects to find it.
Bob's yr uncle; sorted.
Mike.
(EDIT:- Apologies to anyone who wants terminal commands to do the above. We don't really use these all that much in Puppy; we tend to 'dive-in' to the file-system & physically move stuff around to suit.....and the 'portable' version doesn't use 'standard' locations anyway!)
