The Videos Don't Play Topic
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@ercouper To be able to play proprietary codecs by itself, Opera needs to have a license that may be very expensive. For that reason, Opera relies on the OS to be able to play media that uses those codecs.
On Windows and Mac things are more easy, but Linux being more decentralized makes things a little more complicated.By the way, Firefox has the license. Don't know about Vivaldi but it seems to be in the same situation as Opera.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@ipa As far as I know, Vivaldi doesn't have the license.
Regarding the snap version, the codecs are provided by Canonical: https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2018/08/opera-54-0-2952-71-stable-update/
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A Former User last edited by
How can you play Youtube videos?
Opera version 79.0.4143.72. Linux Mint 20.2 UmaSubstitution of the libffmpeg.so file no longer works.
Is it really hard for developers to solve this long-standing problem, or might it be time to uninstall Opera and switch to another browser?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@pak-a As already said, it's a legal issue and I guess there is nothing that developers can do about it. Only thing would be, maybe, to delay the Linux releases to avoid version conflicts of the libffmpeg.so
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Cupid-101 last edited byHi, I can't load any video except videos on youtube, I have looked it up, but I still have no idea, I have tried turning off the hardware acceleration in Settings, but it didn't work.
I have to use Linux OS due to my low configuration (I'm using an old laptop), and I'm not an expert in technology or code. I can play videos on other browsers such as Chrome, Firefox; but my computer runs faster on Opera. Can the videos be played if I install an older version (but I don't know how to install it, too)? I'm stuck right now, please help me. Thanks in advance for any help. -
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dperecky last edited by
Good News! Found a site that talks about the old Opera, the substitution of the libffmpeg.so file fix, and a workaround.
[link text]https://newbedev.com/opera-your-browser-does-not-currently-recognize-any-of-the-video-formats-available(link url)
As far as full disclosure - I have not followed the steps... so as usual: YMMV. I've been using a different browser of late. Looks promising though.
HTH.
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tridoxx last edited by tridoxx
I do not understand, because this browser, with all its advantages, innovative, and so good, has not been able to solve the problem of multimedia reproduction on the libffmpeg library, many users use this great browser, but I am already tired of every time update, I have to replace the file, with so many developers, and being a large company, they still don't give a solution to that, I love the browser and when I was on windows I used up to gx and on my mobile I have the browser, but how is it possible that they still cannot fix the problem of multimedia reproduction as direct, or videos on facebook or twitter, is there something the community can do to fix this definitively ?.
I, like many of us, want to use the browser in a normal way as in other operating systems Thank you so much -
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Karunur last edited by
@truden said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
@PixCatholica, I did some research and replaced libffmpeg.so with the one I downloaded from https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download
Download the Tutuapp package, find libffmpeg.so in it and extract it.
Open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu (this path may vary) click with right mouse button on "opera" folder and "Open as Root". Replace the libffmpeg.so with the new file.
Now you can play videos.Thanks for your advice; I have the same problem with playing videos, but your solution works for me as well.
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john-53 last edited by
@styen said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
@cupid-101 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/
This worked for me on Opera 81.0.4196.60 on Linux Mint 20.2
Hopefully it will seamlessly update itself after each Opera update.
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clafix last edited by
I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable. -
john-53 last edited by
@clafix said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.I'm using the same Opera version but I can't find the #use-angle flag.
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styen last edited by
@john-53 said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
@clafix said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.I'm using the same Opera version but I can't find the #use-angle flag.
It's only in windows version.
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john-53 last edited by
@styen Re: The Videos Don't Play Topic
3 days ago I updated Opera to 82.0.4227.23 and I've had no issues with the method suggested by Ld-Hagen at https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/
