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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 @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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                              • acadianman
                                acadianman @clatsopduck last edited by

                                @clatsopduck I'm having the same issue. Animated gifs from Imgur aren't working either.

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                                • leocg
                                  leocg Moderator Volunteer @acadianman last edited by

                                  @acadianman See https://forums.opera.com/post/150324

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

                                    @acadianman Google Chrome never added a feature to disable the f... totally stupid and useless "Black Circle X Button in Fullscreen Mode" Programmers don't care about the people, welcome to the real world ... so my priority goes to Firefox which fixed this, but there are other problems with it

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                                    • Herrace04
                                      Herrace04 last edited by

                                      Hi everyone,
                                      Strangely everytime i enter Twitter not only Video files but also Gif files doesn't work. fortunately pictures work fine but anyway,
                                      to slove this problem i tried to turn off my Ad bloker and also checked java script works fine and tried to reset my Opera's options.
                                      but still i have been coudn't fix this problem, how do i do?

                                      스크린샷, 2020-12-21 11-58-10.png

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                                      • leocg
                                        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Herrace04 last edited by

                                        @Herrace04 Only on Twitter?

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                                        • Herrace04
                                          Herrace04 @leocg last edited by

                                          @leocg Probabaly not, additionally when i entered Youtube and some viedo also doesn't work same like this.

                                          스크린샷, 2020-12-21 15-27-42.png

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                                          • geokar
                                            geokar last edited by leocg

                                            Hello, I'm new here.
                                            All these years I used to surf with the chrome browser and now I said to myself that I need to make a change to my life. So, I decided to change browser. I made some tests (JetStream, Octane, Kraken, WebXPRT 2015, HTML5 Test) and I realized that Opera is good enough (at some tests Chrome was first and some others Opera). Of course, you, guys, can do better. So, I use Opera from the last week untill now. To tell you the truth, in general, I'm okay with it, I don't have a problem. In fact, there are many that chrome didn't have and I liked it. But yesterday and today, I faced the following problems:

                                            1. Why is there this problem on youtube? This is a live video. There is no problem in Chrome
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                                            2. Why is there this problem on twitter? It plays perfect at chrome.
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                                            3. And, finally, why is there this problem at the following popular site? I clicked to a video in order to watch it for my PhD paper and the "Play" icon + the other two look weird and I cannot play the video. When I click to the play button, the following black screen is showed up and I still cannot play the video.
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                                            I use MX Linux

                                            Sorry for my bad English. This is not my native language.

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