[Solved]Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon)

[RungeKutta]

RungeKutta last edited by

Hi, I create a script to download and install ffmpeg lib on linux and fix this problem with opera:

https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg

[miqwalsh]

miqwalsh last edited by miqwalsh

I 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!)

[efsandino]

efsandino @vladimir-bardakov last edited by

@vladimir-bardakov I installed the extra lib, and then downloaded the last version of opera and installed it again with ,
sudo dpkg -i operaXXX.deb

and the problem was finally solved !

[A Former User]

A Former User @marek-online last edited by

@marek-online this totally solved the issue here, thank you!

[mau21mau]

mau21mau last edited by

That fixed the issue for me

wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.52.2/0.52.2-linux-x64.zip -P ~/Downloads/

unzip ~/Downloads/0.52.2-linux-x64.zip -d ~/Downloads/

sudo mv ~/Downloads/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[kubrisck]

kubrisck @mau21mau last edited by

@mau21mau Confirmed!. Your method works. Last version of Opera nd Linux Mint 20.1

[thinog]

thinog last edited by

If it was installed through Snap, you can try to connect system camera interface on the Opera camera interface

sudo snap connect opera:camera :camera

Restart opera and check if it worked.

Ref: https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management

[Leoneld]

Leoneld last edited by

simlink ubuntu 20.04

sudo ln -s /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/17/chromium-ffmpeg-95241/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[njt145]

njt145 last edited by leocg

This is just a workaround, not a solution.
This legal issue needs to be solved, and it's a Must
I suggest to developers to work on this before to working for stuffs on Opera GX. (or maybe you can replace Opera GX with Opera, why you created GX while your normal browser is not working properly...)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @njt145 last edited by

@njt145 Maybe you can send money to Opera, so the company can afford the costs of a licensing.

[zago13]

zago13 @mau21mau last edited by

@mau21mau ty!

[mosabama]

mosabama last edited by

Another way is to download libffmpeg from here and replace the one in Opera directory

locate libffmpeg.sp

and copy the file from the repository and replace the one in this directory.

[rgplayzmc]

rgplayzmc last edited by rgplayzmc

No method seems to be working for the version of opera released today (Version 79.0.4143.22, chromium 93.0.4577.63). Replacing the provided libffmpeg.so with any of the provided methods causes the entire page to crash if you try to play any video embedded on it. I have now defaulted back to the provided one.
My go-to method before this was to download the latest version from iteufel's github repo and replace it manually. Had worked since I installed opera.

[rgplayzmc]

rgplayzmc @rgplayzmc last edited by leocg

@rgplayzmc **Update To Previous Post **
Solution: Until @xZero updates his script (It returns

opera-fix-ffmpeg.sh: 15: [: Illegal number: 
Error: snapd is not installed
Command 'snap' not found
/usr/bin/snap

Snap is actually installled
)
Here's what to do (GUI method):

1. Install the chromium-ffmpeg snap
2. Navigate to /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current
3. Find the folder with the highest number and open terminal over there (Right click->open with terminal).
4. Run

sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

(Replace opera directory with wherever yours is installed.)

(CUI method) (I am a noob at bash, so please forgive me pros)
1.

snap install chromium-ffmpeg && cd /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current 

2. Find the highest number

cd chromium-ffmpeg-highestnumber && cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Done!

Now I request @xZero or anyone else to fix that script. Once the script is fixed, store the command the run it in a terminal utility known as keep for easy access.

[katberg]

katberg @rgplayzmc last edited by

@rgplayzmc

Thanks a lot, works is great!

[Fuzedrums]

Fuzedrums last edited by

I've had this problem for about two years now. Can't the fix it? Vivaldi solved it somehow.
Every time I update, I start looking for the damn libffmpeg.so file.

For Opera 79.0 install latest Vivaldi browser 4.2 and the take the lib:
sudo cp /var/opt/vivaldi/media-codecs-79b56700ea9558c50a5edacaeb70298120127d2f8b32bb5e05c3876a51bd64b5/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

[torrit]

torrit @rgplayzmc last edited by

@rgplayzmc
Your solution worked like a charm. Thanks!

I had tried copying libffmpeg from /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so but it worsened the situation. Not only the playback didn't work - opera cashed on any page with an embedded video.
Now everything works as expected. Finally!

[nneo16]

nneo16 @rgplayzmc last edited by

@rgplayzmc Thanks,

Why only snap version works ?

[dzanis]

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[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dzanis last edited by

@dzanis English here please