Can't play videos after update
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presager last edited by leocg
Opera update will not allow it to play videos. Thanks for wasting 45 minutes of my day. Get another job instead of playing at updating Opera programmers.
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@presager Opera does not automatically update your version of libffmeg.so nor chromium codecs, you will need to do that yourself.
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presager last edited by
@sgunhouse Doesn't work. I had to go to another site to get directions to where to get the UPdated file and how to install it. This did not work. It still crashes when a video tries to pllay. This is not a good answer especially since you omitted directions.
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presager last edited by
@sgunhouse omponents
Components (10)
PKI Metadata - Version: 1426
Status - Up-to-date
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Amount Extraction Heuristic Regexes - Version: 3
Status - Up-to-date
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CRLSet - Version: 10027
Status - Up-to-date
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Hyphenation - Version: 120.0.6050.0
Status - Up-to-date
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Safety Tips - Version: 3081
Status - Up-to-date
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MEI Preload - Version: 1.0.7.1744928549
Status - Up-to-date
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Probabilistic Reveal Tokens - Version: 2025.8.19.0
Status - Up-to-date
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Cookie Readiness List - Version: 2024.11.26.0
Status - Up-to-date
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Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 4.10.2891.0
Status - Up-to-date
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Open Cookie Database - Version: 2024.10.17.0
Status - Up-to-date
Check for updatevideos still not working
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@presager There are several topics and posts about it already, with various solutions for getting media to play on Opera for Linux.
You can check https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/wiki/opera/linux_libffmpeg_config for some instructions
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gloewa last edited by
@sgunhouse "... you will need to do that yourself" ..... or you switch to another browser, who is able to play videos from the scratch.
Opera User since Version 3.x
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@gloewa And videos don't play even after have updated the libffmeg.so file to one compatible with the Chromium version?
Video works on the Snap version?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@gloewa Unfortunately, yes, since Opera can't do much due to legal restrictions.
Don't know how other browsers can play videos that use proprietary codecs on Linux. Maybe they managed to get a license or, maybe, they find a way to legally give to their users the libraries needed to play those videos.
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alexs last edited by
Well, the special libffmpeg.so version is licensed under a license, and neither Opera nor Vivaldi pays for it, so they are not allowed to include this special libffmpeg.so with the installation.
But... Vivaldi has a very clever Linux programmer (Ruarí Ødegaard, former Opera employee), which is why the Vivaldi browser installation package contains a script called update-ffmpeg [1]. This script searches for the Vivaldi version, downloads the appropriate libffmpeg.so version, and copies it to /var/opt/vivaldi/media-codecs-xx.x/libffmpeg.so
Videos then work without any problems in Vivaldi.Why doesn't this work with Opera? Perhaps it's because Opera doesn't have any programmers working on Linux, after all, there are many problems that only exist on Linux-based systems: Videos don't work, the Opera browser ignores the language of the operating system (only English), the browser does not remember the last window position.
About the videos that don't work for me (Debian/sid, Opera One: 122.0.5643.17):
I installed Vivaldi Stable and copied their working libffmpeg.so from /var/opt/vivaldi/media-codecs-120726/libffmpeg.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.
Alternatively, you can also use the current Snap version [2] of chromium-ffmpeg.mkdir -p /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra copy /var/opt/vivaldi/media-codecs-120726/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so[1] https://pastebin.com/DYJZTkf1
[2] https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/download/XXzVIXswXKHqlUATPqGCj2w2l7BxosS8_82.snap -
presager last edited by
@leocg it's a .deb version that is standalone. I found it on Opera website and didn't integrate it iinto Linux Mint. Most of the videos are playing on this version so far. I also checked other system software and tried Opera Flatpak with no extensions, but it still didn't work.
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presager last edited by
@leocg I tried Chrome version and the standalone libffmpeg.so. Could not get the Flatpak version to play videos at all.
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