The Videos Don't Play Topic
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RungeKutta last edited by
Hi, I create a script to download and install ffmpeg lib on linux and fix this problem with opera:
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miqwalsh last edited by miqwalshI 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!)
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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?
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A Former User last edited by
What solutions?
I'm having the same problem. Utube works fine, but nothing else works. -
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leocg Moderator Volunteer 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/
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A Former User last edited by
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?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@tstowshin You can read through this post to see what's involved in setting up video playback in Opera for Linux.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@tstowshin The post is wordy for detail reasons. But, the gist of it is to create a folder named "lib_extra", download the right libffmpeg.so file and put it in the lib_extra folder.
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opera://about, what version of Chromium does it say your Opera is using and what does it say for the "install" path? We can link you do the right file. -
A Former User last edited by
@burnout426
mange takk,I followed a similar set of instructions, but it did not work.
I used 52.2 which is for chrom 89, but my chromium is 90 and dist 54 is for chromium 91. It has no linux dist. So I was looking into how to compile the source code.
Luckily there was an Opera update, this morning that fixed my problem and I now can play videos again. -
jazardly last edited by
Had this issue yesterday and fixed it by copying the libffmpeg.so from chromium, but the devs managed to make it worse today somehow and now this solution doesn't fix it. I went from Twitch and Twitter videos not working to everything playing again, back to Twitch and Twitter not playing but also Youtube livestreams not playing
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MaximB last edited by
Having the same issue...
No videos on Facebook, but Youtube works fine.
If Opera is now based on Google Chrome, why does it have new problems that Chrome doesn't have, and why the Devs ignore such major problems? -
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