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

[linuc]

linuc @styen last edited by

@styen

After a few days of patient waiting, version 82 finally arrived And everything is working normally again! I still use the same solution as at the beginning. Here is a link to my website, which is unfortunately a bit slow (ifastnet!):

opera-fix-for-video

By the way, in my traffic report from Wordfence I find every day some visitors from all over the world who call up the forum post . So there are even more patient people then just me

[pranadot]

pranadot @zarathustra-f90 last edited by

thanks @zarathustra-f90 this worked for me. as at 30/12/2021, my version is 104707, hence i had something like this current/chromium-ffmpeg-98516 .
NB: please close your Opera Browser after following the steps and reopen it.
Super happy that Youtube and Linkedin Videos can now play so well.

[adamapfelski]

adamapfelski @vladimir-bardakov last edited by

@vladimir-bardakov After this advice I had to remove opera because it simply stopped working.

[adamapfelski]

adamapfelski @zarathustra-f90 last edited by

@zarathustra-f90 Worked for me perfectly. Thanks

[whitemir]

whitemir @zarathustra-f90 last edited by

@zarathustra-f90 Thank you for the solution provided.
It worked for me.

[exoplanet]

exoplanet last edited by

This problem still persists and I have to switch to other browsers to play youtube live videos or twitter videos, amazing!

[Dark-2011111]

Dark-2011111 @exoplanet last edited by

@exoplanet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI32GSl7p3I&list=WL&index=1 this video solving the problem

[exoplanet]

exoplanet @Dark-2011111 last edited by

@dark-2011111 I know that there are some solutions but i will keep switching to other browsers until an official solution comes along.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @exoplanet last edited by

@exoplanet As said, it's a legal issue and (probably) will be around there while proprietary codecs that requires a license exist and are being used by websites.

[nathaniel]

nathaniel last edited by

I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!

snap install opera

[exoplanet]

exoplanet @nathaniel last edited by

@nathaniel I tried snap version but it has its unique problems. This was 2 years ago or more.

[niepiekm]

niepiekm last edited by niepiekm

Looks like, on Ubuntu 20.04 the fix is as simple as installing the latest version of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/ for Chromium your Opera version is based on. I just installed chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb and video playback in Opera 83 works again. No need to symlink libraries.

[exoplanet]

exoplanet @niepiekm last edited by

@niepiekm Thanks for the tip. I tried installing the same package as yours but it did not let me. Maybe because my opera is based on Chrome/97.0.4692.99

[cybrsaylr]

cybrsaylr @nathaniel last edited by

@nathaniel said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):

I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!

snap install opera

Installed Ubuntu 20.04 and had the same problems with videos not playing well with the latest version of Opera. Did what you recommended, uninstalled Opera installed Opera again with snap and this solved all my video issues.

Thanks.

[niepiekm]

niepiekm @exoplanet last edited by niepiekm

@exoplanet Did you download a proper package to install?
There's one thing to note, the package is for Ubuntu 18.04, so if you're running a newer version, e.g. 20.04 as myself, you'll see an update to the older version of this package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (85.xx in my case) intended for current OS version. To prevent downgrading the package you need to run apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra to keep it at version 97.

[exoplanet]

exoplanet @niepiekm last edited by

@niepiekm I downloaded, installed the package you just linked and ran hold command too. Now my problem is solved, thanks.

[BeIT]

BeIT @niepiekm last edited by

@niepiekm said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):

Looks like, on Ubuntu 20.04 the fix is as simple as installing the latest version of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/ for Chromium your Opera version is based on. I just installed chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb and video playback in Opera 83 works again. No need to symlink libraries.

The solution worked for me (Opera 83)! First, I had to uninstall the newer codecs I had installed.

[cybrsaylr]

cybrsaylr @cybrsaylr last edited by

@cybrsaylr said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):

@nathaniel said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):

I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!

snap install opera

Installed Ubuntu 20.04 and had the same problems with videos not playing well with the latest version of Opera. Did what you recommended, uninstalled Opera installed Opera again with snap and this solved all my video issues.

Thanks.

A little update on what is happening now since installing Opera with Snap.
Now have Opera Version: 84.0.4316.21 Opera is up to date.

All videos play fine but Opera takes 40-50 seconds to launch every time at first when booting up my desktop. After this if I close down Opera and re-launch Opera starts up in 5-10 seconds. This long 40-50 second launch of Opera only occurs first time after a fresh PC boot up.

[marozsas]

marozsas last edited by

yup ! It worked ! Thanks
I had to adjust the instructions to opensuse tumbleweed, since the package chromium-ffmpeg-extra put the file libffmpeg on folder /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extra.
Besides that, its works on next run:

zypper in chromium-ffmpeg-extra
mv /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so.obsolete
n -s /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so

[dopplerduck]

dopplerduck @xZero last edited by

@xzero It worked on Mint 20.3 / Neon 20.4 / Focal. Thank you.