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    • StevenJames123
      StevenJames123 @leocg last edited by

      @leocg cmon man
      dude ..really?
      NO Its Opera Browser
      it works fine in Winblows
      its not my OS I been on Machine way before you were born
      Dont do me like that man
      Im 67 i dont need to be disrespected
      you company
      and I also had a Blog on there for years
      I had 2000 followers
      Im not 12
      did you knoiw Microsoft sends out
      phony emails with Porn ?
      Yep

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      • 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.

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        • StevenJames123
          StevenJames123 @leocg last edited by

          @leocg Screenshot at 2022-11-22 20-26-26.png

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @StevenJames123 last edited by

            @stevenjames123 that's called quality control 😂

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            • 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

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              • 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/

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                • 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.

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                  • 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/

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                    • 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

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