Videos doesn't play

dave-m

dave-m

Second: Although it works fine for cruising the web, and conducting business, facebook, etc. It will not play most videos.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dave-m

@dave-m Already tried all the solutions provided?

dave-m

dave-m

Most of the 'answers' that I have found are not well explained (at least to me, since I have very little understanding of programming, and of 'snap') I did check to be sure that a 'snap' directory is in my 'path'. And one suggestion was to install Chromium, so that Opera could make use of one of the supporting files for Chromium. I did that, but ran into an error installing it (something about python3). Never-the-less Chromium seems to be working fine, but Opera still won't play certain files (for instance mp4).

On the same hard drive, I had previously installed Ubuntu Mate 18.10, with Opera. Then when 19.10 became available I installed it, reformatting the partition for "/", and using the same data space for "/home", in order to preserve previous data. Is it likely that some vestiges of previous installations of Opera, or python are hidden somewhere in that data space conflicting with the new installation? If so, what should I be looking for, or how to I eliminate them?

A Former User

Please read the post on my signature if you want something very well explained, with (almost) no technical term.
And since you are on ubuntu 19.10, please read this thread as well. It does have a lot of technical terms though.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/35880/opera-cannot-play-certain-videos-on-latest-version-of-kubuntu-19-10

For the rest of your questions.

There are no suggestions to install chromium, but chromium ffmpeg codecs, which is something completely different. The first is a full blown web browser and uses 200+MB of space, the second is a subset of its libraries and uses ~5MB of space. The "why" it is suggested to install them is explained on my post.

If you think that opera is messed up because of the files from your previous installation, the best thing you can do is export its bookmarks, delete /home/username/.config/opera completely and start fresh. Opera will be reverted to its stock settings, with no extensions, with no leftovers from last time. Stored asswords, settings, etc will also be deleted, so make sure you know them.

Finally, python has nothing to do with opera. It is not used to build it, it is not used to run it, it is not required by any extension (as far as I know). Long story short, opera's connection to python is non existant.