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    The Videos Don't Play Topic

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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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      • A Former User
        A Former User @Guest last edited by

        @zarathustra-f90 it works for me, too.
        debian 11
        ubuntu 21.10

        thank you.

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        • Dark-2011111
          Dark-2011111 @MarcoRboels last edited by

          @marcorboels thanks, it's work...

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          • nathaniel
            nathaniel @MarcoRboels last edited by

            @marcorboels thank you very much, it's working great!

            Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
            Opera 81.0.4196.54

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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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                    • linuc
                      linuc last edited by

                      Hi

                      Since the latest update of Opera some websites crash again. Here's an example:

                      example

                      It seems like this fix is no longer working properly at the moment:

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

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                      • styen
                        styen @linuc last edited by

                        @linuc which version of Opera you have? Latest 0.59 version of ffmpeg works only with Opera 82 and crashes with Opera 81. 0.58 works with 81, but crashes with 82.

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                        • linuc
                          linuc @styen last edited by

                          @styen

                          I have 81.0.4196.60. Update was coming yesterday, for Q4OS. I will try now to update out of Opera.

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                          • linuc
                            linuc @styen last edited by

                            @styen

                            Hm...the update function in Opera Menu is not doing anything. So I tried with the terminal using

                            sudo apt --only-upgrade install
                            

                            so...

                            q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt --only-upgrade install opera-stable
                            Reading package lists... Done
                            Building dependency tree... Done
                            Reading state information... Done
                            opera-stable is already the newest version (81.0.4196.60).
                            0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
                            q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$
                            

                            It looks as I have to be patiently until Q4OS sends the next Opera update? Or what can I do?

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                            • styen
                              styen @linuc last edited by

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

                              @styen

                              Hm...the update function in Opera Menu is not doing anything. So I tried with the terminal using

                              sudo apt --only-upgrade install
                              

                              so...

                              q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt --only-upgrade install opera-stable
                              Reading package lists... Done
                              Building dependency tree... Done
                              Reading state information... Done
                              opera-stable is already the newest version (81.0.4196.60).
                              0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
                              q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$
                              

                              It looks as I have to be patiently until Q4OS sends the next Opera update? Or what can I do?

                              Also you may download it directly from opera.com

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                              • linuc
                                linuc @styen last edited by

                                @styen

                                Well, I'll see what I do then. In any case, it would be advantageous if the developers of Opera would test the latest version to see whether it really works correctly before it is distributed all over the world! It's pretty sad when a user has a correctly functioning installation and after the update it no longer works correctly 😞

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @linuc last edited by

                                  @linuc Most probably the problem didn't happen with their testing machines.

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                                  • masemoel
                                    masemoel last edited by

                                    On Linux Mint 20.2 and with the latest Opera upgrade, I got YT live streaming and Instagram videos playing properly with the following script:

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

                                    I've tried it without Chrome installed, though the script recommends to have it installed. The scripts mentioned above resulted in Opera bricked/not even opening for me...

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                                    • xZero
                                      xZero last edited by

                                      My script seems to brick the most recent versions of Opera. I am working on a resolution. Until then, a warning is added to the script.

                                      If you ended up with your Opera bricked, you can restore the backup of the changed file:

                                      cd /usr/lib/opera/
                                      cp -v libffmpeg.so.bak libffmpeg.so
                                      
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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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                                        • linuc
                                          linuc @styen last edited by

                                          @styen

                                          After a few days of patient waiting, version 82 finally arrived 🙂 And everything is working normally again! I still use the same solution as at the beginning. Here is a link to my website, which is unfortunately a bit slow (ifastnet!):

                                          opera-fix-for-video

                                          By the way, in my traffic report from Wordfence I find every day some visitors from all over the world who call up the forum post . So there are even more patient people then just me 🙂

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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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