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    • A Former User
      A Former User @alex1real last edited by

      @alex1real I migrated to vivaldi on my linux mint workstation.

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      • xZero
        xZero @alex1real last edited by

        @alex1real to you and all folks here that keep complaining: Opera is a free web browser generously offered to the world by it's authors. You can't really expect, nor you should complain for missing functionality due to legal issues. Be grateful for what you got here, as it's far more than you "pay" for.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User @xZero last edited by

          @xZero OK Mr Zero times by zero.

          • "@xZero to you and all folks here that keep complaining about us unthankfull deplorables: We, the common users, all know well that the deficient Who-Know-What-Its-Name (aka Crap) is a free web browser generously offered to the world by it's authors. We can really expect nothing, nor we complain for limited functionality due to unknown issues. We are more grateful for what we got here, thanks to your Sauron's vigilant Eye attitude and corrective policy attitude.
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          • Frizzledoldbutt
            Frizzledoldbutt @acadianman last edited by

            @acadianman et al
            Just started to experience similar issues here - Opera 73.0.3856.284
            Operating System: Linux Mint 20
            Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-58-generic
            Architecture: x86-64

            I've pretty much exhausted everything I could find on the web. Nothing has cured it.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer @Frizzledoldbutt last edited by burnout426

              @Frizzledoldbutt The directions at https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config were gathered/tested on Linux Mint FWIW.

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              • rmstock
                rmstock last edited by

                Whenever a new opera version is availabe I do a fast check on a dutch website npo.nl, to see whether live streaming and watching old programs work. On Ubuntu 18.04 all works fine in combination with chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.
                Ubuntu 18.04 :
                chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_87.0.4280.66-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
                opera-stable_73.0.3856.344_amd64.deb
                Ubuntu 20.04 :
                chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_1%3a85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.deb
                opera-stable_73.0.3856.344_amd64.deb (same version)
                On Ubuntu 20.04 the DRM protected video content refuses to stream and or play.

                Any tips how to get the newest opera to work properly on the most recent LTS edition of Ubuntu ?

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                • Firigion
                  Firigion @xZero last edited by

                  @xzero Thing is, my Opera (73.0.3856.344 in Ubuntu 20.04.1) seems to not be installed in /usr/lib/opera. Opening the about page in the browser informs me that it's actually installed in snap/opera/106/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera, which as it turns out it's a read-only directory.
                  I later learned about the locate -b opera command, which tells me that that's the only directory that contains packages opera uses (I was expecting to find duplicates somewhere).
                  Any clue what can be done here, if anything? This is my first Linux distro, I used to use Opera in Windows and loved it, hence why I'd really want to keep it now in Ubuntu, don't wanna migrate to Firefox or Chrome.

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                  • nickonicko
                    nickonicko @Guest last edited by

                    @zarathustra-f90
                    Thank you for your help.
                    It works !!!

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                    • xZero
                      xZero @Firigion last edited by xZero

                      @firigion My script supports overriding default directory. You just shall call it like so:

                      sudo /bin/bash opera-fix-ffmpeg.sh /path/to/your-opera-installation
                      

                      Not sure how to work around snap Opera though. You see, snap is by default just an image that provides all dependencies to Opera. Naturally so, you cannot modify it, therefore read-only directory.

                      @annevance This explains why my script doesn't work for you. I doubt any solution here will work for Snap packaged Opera, unless you can make Opera load the library from somewhere else.

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                      • Firigion
                        Firigion @xZero last edited by

                        @xzero I ended up deleting my installation and re-installing opera, an now the installation directory is somewhere in /usr/lib, not in /snap. Now I ran your script and it said it worked correctly, but stuff like Netflix and Spotify still didn't work after resetting the browser. Is there something else I can take a look at to maybe fix it?

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                        • launcher
                          launcher last edited by

                          Live streams on youtube and twitch didn't work, this fixed it, thank you. Lubuntu btw

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                          • drpeppercan
                            drpeppercan @xZero last edited by

                            @xzero Unfortunately this didn't work for me in Pop OS. It did the opposite: Opera wouldn't open afterwards. It did again when I renamed the libffmpeg.so back to its original name though.
                            I am so tired of this issue that I resorted to install Spotify as a stand-alone app.

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                            • drpeppercan
                              drpeppercan @Guest last edited by

                              @marek-online Is Spotify integrated into Vivaldi as it is in Opera?

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                              • xZero
                                xZero last edited by

                                @Firigion Can you post script output?
                                Weird that it doesn't work, because it does work for me every time I need it. But again, I use Manjaro which is very different from Ubuntu/Debian. I'll try testing this script more in different distributions VM-s.

                                @drpeppercan Can you send the script output? It feels like it didn't do everything it should have done.

                                • Script creates backup of libffmpeg.so by renaming it
                                • Script then installs new version of libffmpeg through snap and creates symbolic link named "libffmpeg.so" that points to the newly installed libffmpeg snap.
                                • Script is basically wrapper of multiple solutions found in this thread.
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                                • xZero
                                  xZero @xZero last edited by xZero

                                  I have tested a bit.

                                  • On Ubuntu 20.04, snap opera works out of the box. Opera deb from the official website doesn't, but my script fixes it just fine by supplying Opera path as argument '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera'.

                                  I'll test more on Pop OS and other distros.
                                  In meanwhile, make sure to close the Opera before running the script, as that could cause issues.

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                                  • Firigion
                                    Firigion @xZero last edited by

                                    @xzero Right now, if I rerun the script it just says that Symlink is already up to date. Nothing to do., and the first time I ran it, it output all the good output messages (I read the script to see what it did, so I saw the conditions for the output messages. The fact that Opera for Ubuntu 20.04 works out of the box for you is... well, strange? Since it doesn't for me. Maybe the issue was that I ran it with Opera running. I'll reinstall it sometime later when I don't need to use it.

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                                    • operafan123
                                      operafan123 @nickonicko last edited by

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

                                      @zarathustra-f90
                                      Thank you for your help.
                                      It works !!!

                                      When I symlink that library Opera refuses to start. Changing in back to the original library, and Opera works again

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                                      • sgunhouse
                                        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @operafan123 last edited by

                                        @operafan123 Did you install the right version for your version of Opera? What version of Chromium is listed on the About Opera page?

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                                        • operafan123
                                          operafan123 @sgunhouse last edited by

                                          @sgunhouse

                                          Version:75.0.3969.93
                                          Opera is up to date
                                          Update stream:Stable
                                          System:Linux Mint 20.1 (x86_64; X-Cinnamon)
                                          Rate Opera
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                                          Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36 OPR/75.0.3969.93

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                                          • sgunhouse
                                            sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @operafan123 last edited by

                                            @operafan123 And did you install the codecs for Chromium 89.0?

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