libffmpeg.so needs to be changed every installation
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hydroper last edited by 28 days ago
Whenever I install Opera on Linux I've to replace the libffmpeg.so file by the Chromium's libffmpeg.so. I wish they fixed that file.
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9Dragons last edited by 26 days ago
Its utterly ridiculous that I cant watch Netflix unless I jump through several hoops.
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leifjoha last edited by 23 days ago
@leocg Not solved 2018!! and not solved 2025 - still the same problem. Now "Make Opera great also for video" in the world of Open Source where Firefox, Cromium, VTL and others can do it.
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jhonndee last edited by 16 days ago
You're right—Opera for Linux doesn’t bundle the full libffmpeg .so due to licensing issues. A practical fix is to symlink or copy the full version of libffmpeg .so (from Chromium or chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra) into Opera’s lib directory after each update. To automate it, you can write a simple shell script and add it to a post-install hook or run it manually after updates. This avoids doing it manually every time.
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leifjoha last edited by 16 days ago
@jhonndee I have made a bash script for copy a full libffmpeg.so.
But I take libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/. I have no Chromium/Crome on my PC. But I can't understand that Opera not can solved the legal problem, when Firefox to Linux and Crome to Linux can. -
leifjoha last edited by 16 days ago
@leifjoha and I have just tried install Brave - Brave show my video with full codex.