The Videos Don't Play Topic

[operafan123]

operafan123 @sgunhouse last edited by

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

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

I simply followed the instructions from the above original post

"First of all, you need to install the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package. You can do this using the terminal with the following command:

sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

Usually the second step is to create a symlink for the file libffmpeg.so, but since now the Opera browser delivers a file with this name (but not solving the problem), we will delete it and then create a simlink to the new file. File deletion:

sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

Creating a simlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/"

I will also add that a fresh install does not work - even on a new machine, yet a fresh install of Vivaldi, and Chrome both work with Netflix without problems

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @operafan123 last edited by

@operafan123 Netflix will also require widevine.

[operafan123]

operafan123 @sgunhouse last edited by

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

@operafan123 Netflix will also require widevine.

Of course, and it's there and updated to the latest

[nneo16]

nneo16 @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 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, this works for me, Opera 75 on Debian 10.

Lol, I even reported a bug to Opera team before this.

[nneo16]

nneo16 @operafan123 last edited by nneo16

@operafan123 Try rename the original file and replace with that file from chromium package. I don't understand why we should use a symlink here.

[niepiekm]

niepiekm @Guest last edited by

@zarathustra-f90
Thanks, this worked for me to on Ubuntu 20.04 and Opera installed with APT.

[RungeKutta]

RungeKutta last edited by

Hi, I create a script to download and install ffmpeg lib on linux and fix this problem with opera:

https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg

[miqwalsh]

miqwalsh last edited by miqwalsh

I re-package this into a 'portable' version for the Puppy Linux community. Portable applications work very well for Puppy's somewhat unusual method of operation.

I get libffmpeg.so & Widevine for Opera by the simple expedient of using the updater scripts supplied by Vivaldi for their browser. As noted above, it doesn't matter how you actually obtain these; what matters is that you end up with the specific version compiled to work with the particular release of Chromium that Opera has been built around.

If you run the script from your /home 'user' directory, the scripts will write the 'codecs' directory, containing libffmpeg.so, to /var/opt. You'll get a sym-link appear which you can delete; simply copy libffmpeg.so across to the location where Opera expects to find it.

Bob's yr uncle; sorted.

Mike.

(EDIT:- Apologies to anyone who wants terminal commands to do the above. We don't really use these all that much in Puppy; we tend to 'dive-in' to the file-system & physically move stuff around to suit.....and the 'portable' version doesn't use 'standard' locations anyway!)

[tstowshin]

tstowshin last edited by

Yesterday I switched my os from Windows 10 to Kali Linux. I installed opera for Linux but now I can't see videos from social media while Youtube videos are working properly. In other browsers I can see those videos but I can't see this here. Why?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin Did you already try all the solutions provided?

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by

@leocg

What solutions?
I'm having the same problem. Utube works fine, but nothing else works.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@vikk4 The ones in the several topics about the subject.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @leocg last edited by

@leocg facebook community is saying to check if there is any update, if so then I have to update the latest version and I am in latest version already and I don't know about other solutions.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @Guest last edited by

@vikk4 witch os are you using?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin Maybe Facebook is just blocking Opera? Can you watch videos in other pages?

Also see https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic/

[A Former User]

A Former User @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin

I'm using linux mint 19 & 20.
Mint 19 Opera is working fine and mint 20 which I just installed, Opera has the problem.
A look at .config/opera for mint 19 shows that pepper and widevines are installed, while mint 20 has no pepper dir and widevines looks like a rudimentary basic form.

Can I just copy my whole .config/opera file from 19 to 20?

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @leocg last edited by

@leocg I can only watch videos from youtube

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @Guest last edited by

@vikk4 I am using kali linux and I don't know what to do now

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin You can read through this post to see what's involved in setting up video playback in Opera for Linux.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 bruh that's too much complicated