Widevine and Opera

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337 Snap is one of the ways to install Opera on Linux. There are also the Deb and RPM packages.

[stefanw1337]

stefanw1337 @leocg last edited by stefanw1337

@leocg I know, which is what I did to install the non-snap version(dpkg). But shouldn't the easier option have the most mainstream options and choices for the "normal" more casual user? You know, those new to linux?

Edit: seems more software is weird on snap. For instance Spotify.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

To get the snap version of Opera to use proprietary codecs, I guess you need to do something special. I don't know the details, but https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+ffmpeg+codecs+extra+snap+package might help. The snap-provided codecs must be built for the version of Chromium Opera uses just like with the non-snap version. Then, for Widevine, you might have to do something similar. https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+widevine+snap might help.

[A Former User]

A Former User @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337 To fix this on new Opera installations just copy lib: libffmpeg.so to the Opera directory.Terminal command: sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[fonm]

fonm last edited by fonm

archlinux

opera --version 68.0.3618.165

locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg
/usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json

file /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=ce701d11f0356081f48723c46e39da4607b6b87b, stripped

file /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

du -h /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so
1,7M	/usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so

du -h /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
4,3M	/usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so

[stefanw1337]

stefanw1337 @fonm last edited by

@fonm I mean, good for you?

$ locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg

And for the sake of sudo:
$ sudo locate /usr/lib/opera|grep -i ffmpeg

Nothing. This with both snap and non-snap installed.

[stefanw1337]

stefanw1337 @Guest last edited by stefanw1337

@kalebesouza said in Widevine and Opera:

@stefanw1337 To fix this on new Opera installations just copy lib: libffmpeg.so to the Opera directory.Terminal command: sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

$ sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/
cp: cannot stat '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so': No such file or directory

$ find . libffmpeg.so | grep libffmpeg.so
find: ‘libffmpeg.so’: No such file or directory

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337 Do you have Chromium installed?

[stefanw1337]

stefanw1337 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Chrome, yes.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337 And did you check if the installation directory is that one?

[A Former User]

A Former User @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337 Make sure you installed the package: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra. Usually this package is installed together with the ubuntu-restricted-extras package

[bobsteel]

bobsteel @stefanw1337 last edited by

@stefanw1337
clearly you have not got ‘libffmpeg.so installed so how can you expect things to work . Go find it and install it . maybe it got coerrupted or lost somehow