Youtube page crashes

[pnunn]

pnunn last edited by

After the latest upgrade (86.0.4363.23) on kde neon Opera is once again unable to play any sort of video it seems.

Any thing on Youtube simply crashes the page entirely.

Come on guys, this has been a problem for years now. What gives?

I have tried the usual

sudo cp .local/lib/vivaldi/media-codecs-b647ccfd4aea97d646a09a82b06a46e617c55c2a7781697ac2dea35061aec9d6/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

but this hasn't fixed the issue this time.

What's the fix now please?

P.

[ticianolima]

ticianolima @pnunn last edited by

@pnunn
I have the same problem!
I downloaded the libffmpeg.so file from the Arch repository, changed it to Opera in the directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/ but this time it didn't work.

[pnunn]

pnunn @ticianolima last edited by

@ticianolima
I'm glad I'm not alone
I've tried all of the documented fixes and so far nothing works.

Very tiresome.

[pindos]

pindos @pnunn last edited by

@pnunn You can try this one: https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

[galtrhan]

galtrhan @pindos last edited by

@pindos nop, does not work for me this time - this was my solution before. Also tried installing with deb and then with snap and applied this on each.

[john-53]

john-53 @pindos last edited by

@pindos said in Youtube page crashes:

@pnunn You can try this one: https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

This fixed the h.264 video playback for me many versions ago.

It also applies the fix with each Opera update for me (Ubuntu 20.04 based).

[valdineidossantos]

valdineidossantos last edited by valdineidossantos

I have the same problem!

Not only youtube in WhatsApp Web tab with video the tab is broken. This problem started after last update.

Opera version: 86.0.4363.23
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.127 Safari/537.36 OPR/86.0.4363.23

Operation System: Ubuntu 21.04 (x86_64; ubuntu:GNOME)

Whats steps i need to downgrade version?

I tried this https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine , don´t fixed the problem

[wofvman]

wofvman @pnunn last edited by

@pnunn I have the same issue. Tried everything but still doesn't work. I'm using win10 with lastest update of Opera. Anyone please help!

[styen]

styen @valdineidossantos last edited by styen

@valdineidossantos said in Youtube page crashes:

I tried this https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine , don´t fixed the problem

Try it on clean opera installation. It's highly likely you've tried other fixes previously.

[valdineidossantos]

valdineidossantos @styen last edited by

@styen But my last installations works fine. the bug started after last opera update Yesterday

[styen]

styen @valdineidossantos last edited by styen

@valdineidossantos said in Youtube page crashes:

@styen But my last installations works fine. the bug started after last opera update Yesterday

New version of Opera based on Chromium 100 which is incompatible with older libffmpeg.so. So if you applied old fix that replaced libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera, it will crash on every page containing video or sound.

The script above doesn't replace that lib, but adds new one to lib_extra folder.

[valdineidossantos]

valdineidossantos @styen last edited by

@styen
Ok I willl describe my steps:

• sudo dpkg --purge opera-stable
• sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera

Find all Opera files

• find /home/valdinei/ -iname opera

Delete all files in my home

• rm -rf /home/valdinei/.config/opera
• rm -rf /home/valdinei/.cache/opera

After this I reinstalled a new opera version

• sudo dpkg -i opera-stable_86.0.4363.23_amd64.deb

My last version is not broken page, but all whatsApp videos display a message "error" do not play.

Youtube works fine,
Instagram show me a video but when a I click play not work.

Any idea to fix WhatsApp Videos and Instagram ?

[styen]

styen @valdineidossantos last edited by styen

@valdineidossantos follow steps from that page https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
But note that script can't run automatically if you're installing Opera manually by dpkg. In such case you'll need to run script as described in step 3, or using alias "fix-opera" if you've made step 4.

[valdineidossantos]

valdineidossantos @styen last edited by

Thanks @styen !!!

I followed all steps again in latest opera version and worked nice.

For me problem solved.

[pnunn]

pnunn @styen last edited by

Thanks @styen brilliant work.

Fixed it indeed.

Peter.

[valdineidossantos]

valdineidossantos @pnunn last edited by

@pnunn can you add fixed text in title ? This can help others users

[pnunn]

pnunn @valdineidossantos last edited by

@valdineidossantos I'd love too, but can't for the life of me work out how to edit the post I'll keep looking.

[ticianolima]

ticianolima @valdineidossantos last edited by

@valdineidossantos
I'm using SparkyLinux 6.2 - KDE and I ran the commands from the link and it worked perfectly.
Thank you for your cooperation!

[oysterworld]

oysterworld @styen last edited by

@styen Your suggestion helped and worked perfectly. Many thanks.