The Videos Don't Play Topic

pcfreak30

pcfreak30 @styen

@styen This project worked perfectly for me, Such a pain that legal causes the need for community reverse engineering...

adamapfelski

adamapfelski @vladimir-bardakov

@vladimir-bardakov After this advice I had to remove opera because it simply stopped working.

adamapfelski

adamapfelski @Guest

@zarathustra-f90 Worked for me perfectly. Thanks

whitemir

whitemir @Guest

@zarathustra-f90 Thank you for the solution provided.
It worked for me.

exoplanet

exoplanet

This problem still persists and I have to switch to other browsers to play youtube live videos or twitter videos, amazing!

Dark-2011111

Dark-2011111 @exoplanet

@exoplanet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI32GSl7p3I&list=WL&index=1 this video solving the problem

exoplanet

exoplanet @Dark-2011111

@dark-2011111 I know that there are some solutions but i will keep switching to other browsers until an official solution comes along.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @exoplanet

@exoplanet As said, it's a legal issue and (probably) will be around there while proprietary codecs that requires a license exist and are being used by websites.

nathaniel

nathaniel

I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!

snap install opera

exoplanet

exoplanet @nathaniel

@nathaniel I tried snap version but it has its unique problems. This was 2 years ago or more.

niepiekm

niepiekm

Looks like, on Ubuntu 20.04 the fix is as simple as installing the latest version of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/ for Chromium your Opera version is based on. I just installed chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb and video playback in Opera 83 works again. No need to symlink libraries.

exoplanet

exoplanet @niepiekm

@niepiekm Thanks for the tip. I tried installing the same package as yours but it did not let me. Maybe because my opera is based on Chrome/97.0.4692.99

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @nathaniel

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

I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!
snap install opera

Installed Ubuntu 20.04 and had the same problems with videos not playing well with the latest version of Opera. Did what you recommended, uninstalled Opera installed Opera again with snap and this solved all my video issues.

Thanks.

niepiekm

niepiekm @exoplanet

@exoplanet Did you download a proper package to install?
There's one thing to note, the package is for Ubuntu 18.04, so if you're running a newer version, e.g. 20.04 as myself, you'll see an update to the older version of this package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (85.xx in my case) intended for current OS version. To prevent downgrading the package you need to run apt-mark hold chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra to keep it at version 97.

exoplanet

exoplanet @niepiekm

@niepiekm I downloaded, installed the package you just linked and ran hold command too. Now my problem is solved, thanks.

Sai-Prabhav

Sai-Prabhav

I am getting this error in most of the websites except YouTube and few others.
plz help i am unable to see videos on websites like
https://ww1.gogoanime2.org
https://hdtoday.tv

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Sai-Prabhav

@sai-prabhav The solutions provided above in this topic didn't work?

BeIT

BeIT @niepiekm

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

Looks like, on Ubuntu 20.04 the fix is as simple as installing the latest version of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra from http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/ for Chromium your Opera version is based on. I just installed chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_97.0.4692.71-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb and video playback in Opera 83 works again. No need to symlink libraries.

The solution worked for me (Opera 83)! First, I had to uninstall the newer codecs I had installed.

cybrsaylr

cybrsaylr @cybrsaylr

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

@nathaniel said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
I solved the problem by uninstalling my old install of opera and installing it again via snap (https://snapcraft.io/opera).
I hope it helps you!
snap install opera
Installed Ubuntu 20.04 and had the same problems with videos not playing well with the latest version of Opera. Did what you recommended, uninstalled Opera installed Opera again with snap and this solved all my video issues.

Thanks.

A little update on what is happening now since installing Opera with Snap.
Now have Opera Version: 84.0.4316.21 Opera is up to date.

All videos play fine but Opera takes 40-50 seconds to launch every time at first when booting up my desktop. After this if I close down Opera and re-launch Opera starts up in 5-10 seconds. This long 40-50 second launch of Opera only occurs first time after a fresh PC boot up.

marozsas

marozsas

yup ! It worked ! Thanks
I had to adjust the instructions to opensuse tumbleweed, since the package chromium-ffmpeg-extra put the file libffmpeg on folder /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extra.
Besides that, its works on next run:

zypper in chromium-ffmpeg-extra
mv /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so.obsolete
n -s /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so