The Videos Don't Play Topic

[Frizzledoldbutt]

Frizzledoldbutt @acadianman last edited by

@acadianman et al
Just started to experience similar issues here - Opera 73.0.3856.284
Operating System: Linux Mint 20
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-58-generic
Architecture: x86-64

I've pretty much exhausted everything I could find on the web. Nothing has cured it.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Frizzledoldbutt last edited by burnout426

@Frizzledoldbutt The directions at https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config were gathered/tested on Linux Mint FWIW.

[rmstock]

rmstock last edited by

Whenever a new opera version is availabe I do a fast check on a dutch website npo.nl, to see whether live streaming and watching old programs work. On Ubuntu 18.04 all works fine in combination with chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.
Ubuntu 18.04 :
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_87.0.4280.66-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
opera-stable_73.0.3856.344_amd64.deb
Ubuntu 20.04 :
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_1%3a85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.deb
opera-stable_73.0.3856.344_amd64.deb (same version)
On Ubuntu 20.04 the DRM protected video content refuses to stream and or play.

Any tips how to get the newest opera to work properly on the most recent LTS edition of Ubuntu ?

[nneo16]

nneo16 @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 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, this works for me, Opera 75 on Debian 10.

Lol, I even reported a bug to Opera team before this.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin last edited by

Yesterday I switched my os from Windows 10 to Kali Linux. I installed opera for Linux but now I can't see videos from social media while Youtube videos are working properly. In other browsers I can see those videos but I can't see this here. Why?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin Did you already try all the solutions provided?

[Vikk4]

Vikk4 @leocg last edited by

@leocg

What solutions?
I'm having the same problem. Utube works fine, but nothing else works.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Vikk4 last edited by

@vikk4 The ones in the several topics about the subject.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @leocg last edited by

@leocg facebook community is saying to check if there is any update, if so then I have to update the latest version and I am in latest version already and I don't know about other solutions.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @Vikk4 last edited by

@vikk4 witch os are you using?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin Maybe Facebook is just blocking Opera? Can you watch videos in other pages?

Also see https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic/

[Vikk4]

Vikk4 @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin

I'm using linux mint 19 & 20.
Mint 19 Opera is working fine and mint 20 which I just installed, Opera has the problem.
A look at .config/opera for mint 19 shows that pepper and widevines are installed, while mint 20 has no pepper dir and widevines looks like a rudimentary basic form.

Can I just copy my whole .config/opera file from 19 to 20?

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @leocg last edited by

@leocg I can only watch videos from youtube

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @Vikk4 last edited by

@vikk4 I am using kali linux and I don't know what to do now

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin You can read through this post to see what's involved in setting up video playback in Opera for Linux.

[tstowshin]

tstowshin @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 bruh that's too much complicated

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tstowshin last edited by

@tstowshin The post is wordy for detail reasons. But, the gist of it is to create a folder named "lib_extra", download the right libffmpeg.so file and put it in the lib_extra folder.

In opera://about, what version of Chromium does it say your Opera is using and what does it say for the "install" path? We can link you do the right file.

[Vikk4]

Vikk4 @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
mange takk,

I followed a similar set of instructions, but it did not work.
I used 52.2 which is for chrom 89, but my chromium is 90 and dist 54 is for chromium 91. It has no linux dist. So I was looking into how to compile the source code.
Luckily there was an Opera update, this morning that fixed my problem and I now can play videos again.

[jazardly]

jazardly last edited by

Had this issue yesterday and fixed it by copying the libffmpeg.so from chromium, but the devs managed to make it worse today somehow and now this solution doesn't fix it. I went from Twitch and Twitter videos not working to everything playing again, back to Twitch and Twitter not playing but also Youtube livestreams not playing

[MaximB]

MaximB last edited by

Having the same issue...
No videos on Facebook, but Youtube works fine.
If Opera is now based on Google Chrome, why does it have new problems that Chrome doesn't have, and why the Devs ignore such major problems?