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    • truden
      truden @ilbert last edited by

      @ilbert great solution. Thank you.
      Another win for Opera community 😉

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      • toine
        toine last edited by leocg

        The reason why video is not playing (after a update) in Opera is due to the fact that the H264 codec is not supported (ie Opera does not pay money to the license owner of the proprietary H264 codec)

        Use the opensource X264 codec which is you can download from the software manager tab in Ubuntu, Mint, etcetra
        It worked for me with ubuntu and Mint. Otherwise this link could be helpfull: https://forums.opera.com/topic/34659/opera-linux-browser-h-264-support-through-x264-open-source-codec

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        • amgpuma
          amgpuma last edited by

          Hi, Im with Opera 72 (latest) on Deepin (debian stable) and can play videos on youtube but not on other site i.e. newspapers and or streaming sites. Is there anything I can do to solve it?Many thanks

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer @amgpuma last edited by

            @amgpuma None of the solutions provided in the topic worked?

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            • amgpuma
              amgpuma @leocg last edited by

              @leocg Actually if i download https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial-updates/amd64/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/download im not able to get any file, its just a deb package. what else could i try??

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              • truden
                truden @amgpuma last edited by

                @amgpuma right click -> Open with -> Archive Manager, then dig into it and find the file

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                • amgpuma
                  amgpuma @truden last edited by

                  @truden @leocg many tks both, working now !!

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                  • mmichel
                    mmichel last edited by

                    @leocg: If Opera cannot provide a working libffmpeg/WidevineCdm library, can they at least provide some contrib scripts to update them more smoothly for Linux not-savvy users ?

                    And having a warning that we miss some chromium plugin or alternate download of Widevine library would be more useful that "Video is broken" message from the provider, IMO.

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                    • dperecky
                      dperecky @mmichel last edited by

                      @mmichel said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

                      @leocg: If Opera cannot provide a working libffmpeg/WidevineCdm library, can they at least provide some contrib scripts to update them more smoothly for Linux not-savvy users ?

                      And having a warning that we miss some chromium plugin or alternate download of Widevine library would be more useful that "Video is broken" message from the provider, IMO.

                      You have when we right-mouse click on a link: Open Link in New Tab | Open Link in New Window | Open Link in Private Window.... etc...

                      Perhaps you can give your users an option such as: Open Link in Chromium ... for Linux users? No it's not the best solution... It's a workaround... but better than a big screen stating 'error'....

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @mmichel last edited by

                        @mmichel I'm not sure if Opera could do that.

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                        • lu-menard
                          lu-menard last edited by

                          Hello

                          I get no success with playing videos from Tiktok, the front frame appears on the player with the icon "start" (a triangle) but this icon is inactive, click on it and nothing happens
                          Opera for Linux (LM) I get the same issue with Chrome and Brave
                          Only Firefox plays their videos

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                          • lu-menard
                            lu-menard @lu-menard last edited by

                            @lu-menard After further assays I must tell that these videos play on Chrome

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                            • lu-menard
                              lu-menard last edited by

                              With Brave, it works too

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                              • lu-menard
                                lu-menard @supermen last edited by

                                @supermen A browser which can't play videos, I call this just pure shit !!

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                                • anouk
                                  anouk last edited by

                                  Where can I download codecs for H.264 for Opera on Linux Ubuntu 20.04?
                                  I've Opera version 72.0.3815.186
                                  Other information: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36 OPR/72.0.3815.186

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                                  • spikespiegel
                                    spikespiegel last edited by

                                    Hi, does anyone can explain to me why can't I watch Prime video on Opera?
                                    I'm aware that Amazon doesn't stream in HD, but only in SD on Linux. However, I can't watch Prime at all and that's really annoying. On Firefox I simply clicked on a popup to enable DRM contents and the video streaming worked just fine. Thanks!

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                                    • kojfer
                                      kojfer last edited by

                                      I cant play any vidos (except youtube) on chromium everything working fine.

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                                      • ilbert
                                        ilbert @ilbert last edited by

                                        @ilbert It's necessary also to download libffmpeg. Instructions here

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                                          • acadianman
                                            acadianman @PixCatholica last edited by

                                            @PixCatholica It's insane that you posted this in July and there are still issues with this. I can't watch animated gifs. Does Opera even look at these forums? Do they even pay attention to the bug reports?

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