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

[davidparks21]

davidparks21 @jojocw last edited by

The post by @jojocw on 3jun2022 worked for a PopOS 22.04 based Opera install. Oi vey that took a lot of wading through. Opera could surely streamline this without running afoul of licensing.

[AlexRojas]

AlexRojas @styen last edited by

@styen Worked perfectly on Ubuntu 20.0.4. Thank you so much.

[MarcoRboels]

MarcoRboels last edited by

Easy solution via Terminal (rooted) for Opera 88.0.4412.40:

$ sudo snap install chromium-ffmpeg

$ sudo cp /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-107578/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

It's as easy as taken the last chromium-ffmpeg's library every-time you update Opera's versions, I mean, chromium-ffmpeg it's updated in parallel with Opera and vice versa.

[linuc]

linuc @thihup last edited by

@thihup

This will work fine:

Opera fix