<![CDATA[Videos Not Working -- News Sites]]>Anyone know how to troubleshoot videos here:

Gray screen.
apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-palestinian-state-recognition-what-to-know-ed18d4cc50b20c8238e0de0068080eb0

"This content doesn't seem to be working."
www.bbc.com/news/live/world-69044396

This is the case with all videos on these sites.

Does Opera support H.264? AV1?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/71878/videos-not-working-news-sitesRSS for NodeMon, 14 Sep 2026 22:31:04 GMTWed, 22 May 2024 14:28:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:36:17 GMT]]>I create a script that install the broken library and fix the opera bug.

https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/360679https://forums.opera.com/post/360679Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:36:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Mon, 27 May 2024 03:47:04 GMT]]>@sgunhouse Not worth it to install -anything- G**gle.

Just need a way to get H.264, Ogg, and AV1. Shouldn't be this hard.

Maybe I need to go back to Firefox.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351623https://forums.opera.com/post/351623Mon, 27 May 2024 03:47:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Mon, 27 May 2024 01:55:32 GMT]]>@quantumstate My distro - Mageia - has a repo they call "tainted" which is equivalent to "nonfree" on other distros.. Yes, you have a libffmpeg.so exists, but if it is the "free" version it lacks the codecs you need.

The obvious alternative would be to install a compatible version of Chrome, and use the libffmpeg.so that it comes with.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351618https://forums.opera.com/post/351618Mon, 27 May 2024 01:55:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Sun, 26 May 2024 22:12:23 GMT]]>@sgunhouse I guess I'm dead. I've looked everywhere for the right packages to install for OpenSuse (rpm) and the video problem, but nothing. Of course /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so exists.

Since I'd installed Opera as a flatpak I should have thought it would be complete, or at least call for dependencies, but no.

Naturally it fails on MPEG-4 ASP, H.264. H.265, and Ogg/Theora support here: html5test.opensuse.org

Widevine is not found by zypper.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351609https://forums.opera.com/post/351609Sun, 26 May 2024 22:12:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Thu, 23 May 2024 15:48:11 GMT]]>@quantumstate There is a package of codecs available from the Chromium project which Opera does not have the rights to supply itself; in Debian-based distros this should be called chromium-codecs-extra and be in the nonfree repository. If that doesn't help you may have to get it from an external source.

Here's the official Opera Reddit on Linux video support, there are additional resources listed in this (long) forum thread ... and as I mentioned make sure widevine is up to date.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351362https://forums.opera.com/post/351362Thu, 23 May 2024 15:48:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Thu, 23 May 2024 15:08:16 GMT]]>@leocg html5test indeed shows I am missing h.264, h.265, Ogg Theora, etc.

@sgunhouse a Search does not come up with the video drivers needed in Linux. Can you advise?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351361https://forums.opera.com/post/351361Thu, 23 May 2024 15:08:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Wed, 22 May 2024 17:40:07 GMT]]>@quantumstate If you use Linus, see the thread on installing the right video libraries for Linux. Also, check that Widevine is up to date.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351305https://forums.opera.com/post/351305Wed, 22 May 2024 17:40:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos Not Working -- News Sites on Wed, 22 May 2024 15:42:25 GMT]]>@quantumstate Opera depends on the OS to play proprietary codecs. In https://html5test.co/ you can check if H264 and AV1 is being supported.

Here videos worked on both pages

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/351298https://forums.opera.com/post/351298Wed, 22 May 2024 15:42:25 GMT