<![CDATA[Opera not able to play live videos]]>When I try to play any live video on any platform, Opera is just not able to process it and I see an error message during any live video, be it on hotstar, youtube, twitchTV, etc.![alt text]Screenshot from 2021-06-22 16-44-45.png

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
RAM: 8GB

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/49950/opera-not-able-to-play-live-videosRSS for NodeSun, 14 Jun 2026 16:03:54 GMTTue, 22 Jun 2021 11:18:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:47:21 GMT]]>Install chromium-ffmpeg with snap, then copy /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-<highest version number>/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/ (that should replace the old one)

Note: you must do this every time you update Opera.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255946https://forums.opera.com/post/255946Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:47:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:03:05 GMT]]>@leocg I tried it, it crashed the entire Opera browser. Had to reinstall it.
So, it also didn't work!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255828https://forums.opera.com/post/255828Sun, 27 Jun 2021 11:03:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sun, 27 Jun 2021 05:43:40 GMT]]>@nneo16 It's not an issue just with my youtube account, whenever I try to play live video on any platform, it just gives an error message.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255817https://forums.opera.com/post/255817Sun, 27 Jun 2021 05:43:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:42:13 GMT]]>I think you should check your youtube account.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255808https://forums.opera.com/post/255808Sun, 27 Jun 2021 00:42:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sat, 26 Jun 2021 18:51:49 GMT]]>@blackwatch See https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic/ and https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon/

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255789https://forums.opera.com/post/255789Sat, 26 Jun 2021 18:51:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:38:32 GMT]]>@leocg Yes, it's opera 77, how to download ffmpeg for chromium 91?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255785https://forums.opera.com/post/255785Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:38:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:43:35 GMT]]>@blackwatch It's the correct one? If you are using Opera 77, then you need the one for Chromium 91.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255783https://forums.opera.com/post/255783Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:43:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:04:08 GMT]]>@nneo16 It's already installed in my PC.
Screenshot from 2021-06-26 21-32-48.png

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255770https://forums.opera.com/post/255770Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:04:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera not able to play live videos on Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:53:18 GMT]]>Install libffmpeg.so

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/255767https://forums.opera.com/post/255767Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:53:18 GMT