The Videos Don't Play Topic

[Didaktiker]

Didaktiker last edited by

Hello everyone,

My Specs: I use Deepin Linux 20 (community/64 Bit) and just installed the Opera browser trough their store. The version is 66.0.3515.27. No addons or extensions.

The Problem: The problem is I cannot watch media on Netflix, Disney+ or Spotify. It will give me errorcodes like 07355 (Netflix) or it doesn't load (Disney and Spotify). Youtube works ok, but some videos won't play because my browser ,,wouldn't support HTML-5".
I can log in on every site and scroll trough their videos, series etc. I can search but if turn on an video it will give the problems.

Is there a way to bring it to work?

Thank you for reading.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @geokar last edited by This post is deleted!

[leocg]

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[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @geokar last edited by leocg

@geokar Check above

[geokar]

geokar @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thank you, my friend! I run the script from that link and it worked. Thank you!
https://gist.github.com/mcarletti/7989d1c04199dba60a01adf8ac54fe31

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Didaktiker last edited by

@Didaktiker See above

[geokar]

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[geokar]

geokar @leocg last edited by

@Didaktiker Run this script as root and you will be OK: https://gist.github.com/mcarletti/7989d1c04199dba60a01adf8ac54fe31

[alex1real]

alex1real @leocg last edited by

@leocg a browser that doesn't play videos is not only a issue, but a major issue. No matter if it's legal, commercial or technical.
It's sad, I liked using Opera in my windows machine and it's a pity that you don't have a useful version on Linux.
I'm not watching videos all the time, but it's very frustrating need to open chrome for playing a video when it's needed.
I'm migrating back to chrome, and I'm sure that many people is doing the same.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @alex1real last edited by

@alex1real Ok, goodbye.

[A Former User]

A Former User @alex1real last edited by

@alex1real I migrated to vivaldi on my linux mint workstation.

[xZero]

xZero @alex1real last edited by

@alex1real to you and all folks here that keep complaining: Opera is a free web browser generously offered to the world by it's authors. You can't really expect, nor you should complain for missing functionality due to legal issues. Be grateful for what you got here, as it's far more than you "pay" for.

[A Former User]

A Former User @xZero last edited by

@xZero OK Mr Zero times by zero.

• "@xZero to you and all folks here that keep complaining about us unthankfull deplorables: We, the common users, all know well that the deficient Who-Know-What-Its-Name (aka Crap) is a free web browser generously offered to the world by it's authors. We can really expect nothing, nor we complain for limited functionality due to unknown issues. We are more grateful for what we got here, thanks to your Sauron's vigilant Eye attitude and corrective policy attitude.

[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 ?

[Firigion]

Firigion @xZero last edited by

@xzero Thing is, my Opera (73.0.3856.344 in Ubuntu 20.04.1) seems to not be installed in /usr/lib/opera. Opening the about page in the browser informs me that it's actually installed in snap/opera/106/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera, which as it turns out it's a read-only directory.
I later learned about the locate -b opera command, which tells me that that's the only directory that contains packages opera uses (I was expecting to find duplicates somewhere).
Any clue what can be done here, if anything? This is my first Linux distro, I used to use Opera in Windows and loved it, hence why I'd really want to keep it now in Ubuntu, don't wanna migrate to Firefox or Chrome.

[nickonicko]

nickonicko @Guest last edited by

@zarathustra-f90
Thank you for your help.
It works !!!

[xZero]

xZero @Firigion last edited by xZero

@firigion My script supports overriding default directory. You just shall call it like so:

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

Not sure how to work around snap Opera though. You see, snap is by default just an image that provides all dependencies to Opera. Naturally so, you cannot modify it, therefore read-only directory.

@annevance This explains why my script doesn't work for you. I doubt any solution here will work for Snap packaged Opera, unless you can make Opera load the library from somewhere else.

[Firigion]

Firigion @xZero last edited by

@xzero I ended up deleting my installation and re-installing opera, an now the installation directory is somewhere in /usr/lib, not in /snap. Now I ran your script and it said it worked correctly, but stuff like Netflix and Spotify still didn't work after resetting the browser. Is there something else I can take a look at to maybe fix it?