Video and Opera does not seem to be going good on Linux Mint

[lavanyadeepak 0]

lavanyadeepak 0 @mochica last edited by

@mochica I tried this route and Opera totally started crashing its tabs.

[mochica]

mochica @lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

@lavanyadeepak-0

Make sure the chromiun libffmpeg version matches your Opera Installation.
I've uninstalled Opera using the Software Manager and installed this version:

Then I replaced the libffmpeg with the one from the 0.78.1-linux-x64.zip in this folder: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

[mochica]

mochica @mochica last edited by

@mochica

[StevieDeeee]

StevieDeeee @styen last edited by

@styen Thanks!

[vbnvbn]

vbnvbn @lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

@lavanyadeepak-0 try an older version of libffmpeg.so from the link provided by @mochica - e.g. 0.78.0

If that doesn't solve the problem, check the driver for your graphics/video adapter you use - it may be inappropriate - e.g. if you use xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, some old nvidia graphics adapters are no longer supported by it - for example many 2D apps may work, but some apps, which use hardware acceleration may not.

[lavanyadeepak 0]

lavanyadeepak 0 @vbnvbn last edited by lavanyadeepak 0

@vbnvbn How are other browsers on the same platform able to manage and run the show seamlessly?

[vbnvbn]

vbnvbn @lavanyadeepak 0 last edited by

@lavanyadeepak-0 If other chromium-based browsers work flawlessly with the hardware acceleration option switched on, then find the appropriate libffmpeg.so version for you. Use these links:

https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser

https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/chromium

https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases

[DarkMac78]

DarkMac78 last edited by

I am using th libffmpeg.so from the Slack installation. Bottom line, if you already have libffmpeg.so installed, just backup /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so and then do a symlink for /usr/lib/slack/libffmpeg.so.

[jito463]

jito463 last edited by

You know, I have to thank the Opera team. Because of this issue after installing Linux on my work PC, I have finally decided to ditch ChrOpera once and for all. It's been a long time coming, with multiple aggravations/ irritations, and this just made it easy to take the final step. I was going to try and fix the issue with the above steps, but I'm finally fed up.

So thank you Opera dev team.

[DarkMac78]

DarkMac78 @jito463 last edited by

@jito463 I feel you. Sadly I think this is the roadmap for me too

[soltysss]

soltysss last edited by

This is stupid, I should't install some codes and use terminal just to be able to use this browser, all other browsers work just fine out of the box. It's WTF moment to be honest. I don't event know why they bother supporting linux version of browser if it's not usable anyway.

[Steviedeeee69]

Steviedeeee69 @mochica last edited by

This works but I had to right-click, 'open as root' in order to paste the libffmpeg.so file.

I know it adds another 15mb or so to the file size, but if you don't do a symlink it is pretty annoying to have to do this every time, when the developers could simply use the correct yet larger file.

[anika216]

anika216 last edited by

I have Opera version 107 and libffmpeg.so version .84 from the link above https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases

worked for me.

[Prutser]

Prutser last edited by

I am sadly used to it already, made it work via manual downloads and replacing the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmeg.so in any form.
Used to do it via snap on fedora, this time i installed mint and just downloaded the zip from github.

You can script it or just do not upgrade your browser automatically and plan it. It basically are just 3 steps to do:

• update your browser, test if media files still work
• download the ffmpeg
• replace the opera supplied file with a symlink or just the new file and restart your browser.

The browser is worth a bit of extra effort in my case, firefox and chrome variants just aint my piece of pie. I read somewhere that Opera could not include the media codec files because of licensing types but not sure how much of that is true.

[adamspaminator]

adamspaminator @jito463 last edited by leocg

@jito463

That's funny, I am in the almost exact opposite situation in that this bug has convinced me to finally completely ditch Windows for desktop use and re-embrace Linux/BSD as a viable daily driver OS.

Running into a show-stopper bug and then being able to fix said bug in 5 minutes with minimal searching reminds me of what Linux on the Desktop is really for. Which is that enjoyment found in being bogged down by random problems which don't occur with other systems/software, using previously developed skills and knowledge to fix the problem in a completely hack manner (as in messy and half-assed) which in turn allows one to develop a massive and completely useless Superiority Complex over the M$/iO$ plebs.

It's good to be back.

[shelleyfrank]

shelleyfrank @styen last edited by shelleyfrank

@styen Thanks for this solution. I almost uninstalled Opera because of the video issue. Now it's working fine. The only thing is that I couldn't install opera-stable via apt, so I downloaded the latest deb installer from Opera homepage. The Linux Mint repo must be lacking opera-stable

[danielpvn]

danielpvn @styen last edited by

@styen you are a angel , thanks

[s58302]

s58302 @styen last edited by

@styen Thank you so much!!

[MrBaloo11]

MrBaloo11 @styen last edited by

@styen Thank you, this solution worked excellent with Linux Mint 22.

[typeoftian]

typeoftian @mochica last edited by

@mochica this is right.

but for some people who user some package manager such snap, flatpak, aur, yay etc. the correct directory is /usr/lib/opera.