The Videos Don't Play Topic

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin 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.

In 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]

A Former User @burnout426 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]

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

[MaximB]

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?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MaximB last edited by

@maximb Opera is not based on Chrome, but both are based on Chromium.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @MaximB last edited by

@maximb Did you try the solutions?

[MaximB]

MaximB @leocg last edited by

@leocg I read in this topic that the solutions stopped working.
so I didn't try it.

[BorealDesign]

BorealDesign last edited by

Same problem in Fedora 34, facebook videos does not play

[BorealDesign]

BorealDesign @leocg last edited by

@leocg Please, I'm new in this forum, (long user fedora linux and about 4 months using opera). Could you tell me where are the solutions. Videos working just for youtube. Anyewhere else (Canva, Facebook, twitter,...). I'm webdesigner and videomaker, without this opera is unuseless for me. I'm working for months only with Opera. Please, tell me it was not a very big mistake. How can I solve this. The upgrade to fedora 34 was ok, the problem came after this, in a opera browser update. Can you help me, please? Thank you

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @BorealDesign last edited by

@borealdesign In this topic you can find some, as well as a link to the main topic about the subject, that also contains some solutions.

[useropera2021]

useropera2021 last edited by leocg

Problem: Video/streaming on websites can't start/don't work with Opera for Linux till now

Linux: Please help for Opera 76 (for Linux) for streaming and video support like with Chromium 91 Browser (for Linux)

Easier Streaming, video and flash(switch on/off) support (HTML 5/Flash) like with Chromium Browser 91 (for Linux):

Please help supporting for Opera for Linux (in further Opera for Linux settings eventually possible to switch on (flash) streaming and video possibilities as option, or as addon ?) like with Chromium 91 (for Linux) with Flash and Streaming possibiltiy for internet streaming and video sites like Zattoo.com, wilmaa.com and also on dvd trailer sites (links below).

Many thanks !

Kind regards

mailing17@yahoo.com

Links:

http://zattoo.com

http://www.dvdtrailertube.com

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @useropera2021 last edited by

@useropera2021 See above

[efsandino]

efsandino @vladimir-bardakov last edited by

@vladimir-bardakov I installed the extra lib, and then downloaded the last version of opera and installed it again with ,
sudo dpkg -i operaXXX.deb

and the problem was finally solved !

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by

@marek-online this totally solved the issue here, thank you!

[mau21mau]

mau21mau last edited by

That fixed the issue for me

wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.52.2/0.52.2-linux-x64.zip -P ~/Downloads/

unzip ~/Downloads/0.52.2-linux-x64.zip -d ~/Downloads/

sudo mv ~/Downloads/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[kubrisck]

kubrisck @mau21mau last edited by

@mau21mau Confirmed!. Your method works. Last version of Opera nd Linux Mint 20.1

[thinog]

thinog last edited by

If it was installed through Snap, you can try to connect system camera interface on the Opera camera interface

sudo snap connect opera:camera :camera

Restart opera and check if it worked.

Ref: https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management

[devtiagofranca]

devtiagofranca @mtompset last edited by

@mtompset Thank you

[Leoneld]

Leoneld last edited by

simlink ubuntu 20.04

sudo ln -s /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/17/chromium-ffmpeg-95241/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

[njt145]

njt145 last edited by leocg

This is just a workaround, not a solution.
This legal issue needs to be solved, and it's a Must
I suggest to developers to work on this before to working for stuffs on Opera GX. (or maybe you can replace Opera GX with Opera, why you created GX while your normal browser is not working properly...)