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    • styen
      styen @Cupid-101 last edited by

      @cupid-101 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/

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      • luisandriy
        luisandriy @styen last edited by

        @styen Cheers mate, that really helped, now Opera works.

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        • dperecky
          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
            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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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer @tridoxx last edited by

              @tridoxx As said many times, that's a legal issue. So developers can't do much about it.

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              • Karunur
                Karunur @truden 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
                  john-53 @styen 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
                    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.

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                    • john-53
                      john-53 @clafix 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
                        styen @john-53 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
                          john-53 @styen 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/

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                          • NameLessUser
                            NameLessUser last edited by

                            to replace the libffmpeg..so in the opera (82.0......) directory manually does not work anymore... 😠
                            it's getting annoying
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                            👇 this working for me (Linux Mint):

                            1
                            install CHROMIUM

                            2
                            open terminal and type in:

                            sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/
                            

                            and

                            sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
                            

                            3
                            (re)start opera

                            opera uses chromium's libffmpeg..so
                            maybe it is necessary to adjust the path

                            (google translation)

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                            • pcfreak30
                              pcfreak30 @styen last edited by

                              @styen This project worked perfectly for me, Such a pain that legal causes the need for community reverse engineering...

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                              • Sai-Prabhav
                                Sai-Prabhav last edited by

                                I am getting this error in most of the websites except YouTube and few others.
                                plz help i am unable to see videos on websites like
                                https://ww1.gogoanime2.org
                                https://hdtoday.tv

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @Sai-Prabhav last edited by

                                  @sai-prabhav The solutions provided above in this topic didn't work?

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                                  • noctiluus
                                    noctiluus last edited by leocg

                                    Video Playback on Arch

                                    If, after updating opera, video playback, on websites such as YouTube, crashes the tab, please install opera-ffmpeg-codecs from the community repository. This should remedy the playback error.

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                                    • DrStrom
                                      DrStrom last edited by leocg

                                      does someone can tell me which libffmpeg.so version for the actual opera linux version. opera version 86.0.4363.32
                                      Thank you in advanced

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                                      • john-53
                                        john-53 @DrStrom last edited by john-53

                                        @drstrom said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

                                        does someone can tell me which libffmpeg.so version for the actual opera linux version. opera version 86.0.4363.32
                                        Thank you in advanced

                                        I don't know any version numbers. I just know these instructions worked for me several months ago and it updates properly.

                                        My libffmpeg.so file is 1.8 MB in size in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/ and another one is 17.4 MB in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/

                                        https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/

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                                        • DrStrom
                                          DrStrom @john-53 last edited by

                                          @john-53 Thank you . Your link worked for me .

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                                          • Frizzledoldbutt
                                            Frizzledoldbutt last edited by

                                            A couple of years back I raised the issue that in my experience Opera on Linux & Windows fails to play video streams.

                                            You can assume latest OS & Opera versions and recent hardware.

                                            I didn't find a cure (The fanbois with "works for me" comments were no help either).

                                            Anyway, I looked in again today; Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint etc, Opera still won't play video streams, although the error message has changed:
                                            Vimeo:
                                            undefined Player error
                                            The player is having trouble. We’ll have it back up and running as soon as possible.

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