The Videos Don't Play Topic

[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...)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @njt145 last edited by

@njt145 Maybe you can send money to Opera, so the company can afford the costs of a licensing.

[zago13]

zago13 @mau21mau last edited by

@mau21mau ty!

[mosabama]

mosabama last edited by

Another way is to download libffmpeg from here and replace the one in Opera directory

locate libffmpeg.sp

and copy the file from the repository and replace the one in this directory.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

I've been using Opera for several years but reluctantly will be moving on to a different browser because of Opera not being able to play many videos due to missing codecs. I keep hearing that it is because of legal reasons which I can't understand. Other browsers such as Firefox, Vivaldi, etc. apparently don't have this legal problem. Why can't this be resolved? Opera is great is all other aspects.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest 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.

[rgplayzmc]

rgplayzmc last edited by rgplayzmc

No method seems to be working for the version of opera released today (Version 79.0.4143.22, chromium 93.0.4577.63). Replacing the provided libffmpeg.so with any of the provided methods causes the entire page to crash if you try to play any video embedded on it. I have now defaulted back to the provided one.
My go-to method before this was to download the latest version from iteufel's github repo and replace it manually. Had worked since I installed opera.