The Videos Don't Play Topic

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @StevenJames123 last edited by

@stevenjames123 Well, as the topic says, you need to have/install the proper libffmpeg.iso file installed for proprietary codecs to run in Opera for Linux and you have to update it every time there is a major version update because the Chromium version will also change and break everything again.

As you read, it's a legal issue and there isn't much that Opera can do.

[StevenJames123]

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[A Former User]

A Former User @StevenJames123 last edited by

@stevenjames123 that's called quality control

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @StevenJames123 last edited by leocg

@stevenjames123 And?

By the way, you should not post just an image without providing a context for it

[john-53]

john-53 last edited by

I followed these instructions over a year ago and I've had no problem with video playback because of the codec issue. Each Opera update maintains the proper codec with this script installed.

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

[kareemb]

kareemb @xZero last edited by

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

sudo /bin/bash opera-fix-ffmpeg.sh /path/to/your-opera-installation

Worked for Opera 94 & 95 on Ubuntu 22.04. Thanks

[starsent]

starsent @lu-menard last edited by

@lu-menard

wow it's good

[starsent]

starsent @Firigion last edited by

@firigion Good

[JoeSchwarz]

JoeSchwarz last edited by leocg

hi,
I have noticed that Opera on Linux (Mint cinnamon 21.1) has problem with videos of BBC (e.g. REEL) or CNN (e.g. news) and shows a weird error code.
Because Firefox won't have this problem I believe that it must be an Opera bug.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @JoeSchwarz last edited by

@joeschwarz Check the whole topic above.
Also check https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config and https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solved-solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon/

[JoeSchwarz]

JoeSchwarz @leocg last edited by JoeSchwarz

@leocg
Thanks for the great hint. It works line charm. Here are the steps that what I've done:

1. run Opera, click "about" and scroll up to look for the install path. Here: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera, then run: killall opera
2. cd /usr/lib/.../opera
3. sudo mv libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so_original
4. snap install chromium-ffmpeg
5. cd /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/
6. look for the most actual version:chronium-ffmpeg-XXXXX. Here: chromium-ffmpeg-108372//chromium-ffmpeg
7. sudo ln -sf /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-108372/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so

Finish. Start opera Opera, goto www.bbc.com and try with any REEL video....to see if it might work and...it works!
Joe

[NemyV]

NemyV @MarcoRboels last edited by

@marcorboels Worked perfect for me

[miyen]

miyen last edited by miyen

In the "software manager" of Mint now you can download flatpack package with the codecs integrated, no more struggle.

[ThanosTheMadMan]

ThanosTheMadMan @Guest last edited by

@mr-matt-eastwood Thank you! This worked for me too. Of-course the path was a bit different for me. Specifically it was "/snap/chromium-ffmpeg/30/chromium-ffmpeg-108372/chromium-ffmpeg" and it had other options, but it worked!

[az2012]

az2012 last edited by

OK After one year this script works very well again.

[31canluthien69]

31canluthien69 @styen last edited by

@styen It worked for me thank you!

[akanamay]

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[akanamay]

akanamay @leocg last edited by

@leocg it's sad, but a browser that can't watch videos is just useless

[999Lucia-mi-Amor999]

999Lucia-mi-Amor999 last edited by

what I do?
Opera One(version: 100.0.4815.21)
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Linux Mint 21.1 (x86_64; X-Cinnamon)
Chromium version:114.0.5735.110
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/100.0.0.0

help me please

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @999Lucia-mi-Amor999 last edited by

@999lucia-mi-amor999 Check https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config