Can't play videos after update

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

For the Flatpak package, see https://github.com/flathub/com.opera.Opera/issues/205#issuecomment-3291058932. Update coming soon.

[gloewa]

gloewa @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thank you for all the information. That's very kind of you.

I solved the problem for now by copying libffmpeg.so from the Vivaldi directory to the Opera directory. Now everything is working as usual again.

Opera User since Version 3.x

[valour47]

valour47 last edited by

https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

this is what helped me every time this happend

[gloewa]

gloewa @valour47 last edited by

@valour47 Thanks for your Info. I solved the problem for now by copying libffmpeg.so from the Vivaldi directory to the Opera directory. Now everything is working as usual again.

Opera User since Version 3.x

[3333e]

3333e last edited by

@Opera-QA-Team
As I said at somewhere, opera has wrong LD_PRELOAD for buldled ffmpeg.
We can load newer version of ffmpeg (with same avcodec soname) if opera fixed the bug without violating with EULA. Please stop LD_PRELOAD.

[3333e]

3333e @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Also needed to remove bundled .so to take avcodec based approach due to LD_PRELOAD bug.

ABI info is completely masked at unified .so (extractable from source code) and major ver of avcodec could be bumped even major ver of Chromium is not bumped.

[gloewa]

gloewa @3333e last edited by

@3333e Thanks for the info. But my solution posted above is to me - as user - much more simpler ...

Opera User since Version 3.x

[3333e]

3333e @gloewa last edited by

@gloewa Copying random version from random place is not a reproducible solution.

[alexs]

alexs @3333e last edited by

@3333e said in Can't play videos after update:

@gloewa Copying random version from random place is not a reproducible solution.

It isn't, but the Opera programmers responsible leave you no other choice.
Like Opera, Vivaldi uses Chromium as its basis, but Vivaldi uses a functioning libffmpeg.so. I mentioned above [1] where Vivaldi gets the libffmpeg.so from.
[1] https://forums.opera.com/post/392484

[gloewa]

gloewa @3333e last edited by

@3333e As i wrote: Its a quick solution for now.
The Opera-Crew has to deliver a browser who is able to play videos. Welcome to the 21. Century!

Opera User since Version 3.x

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @3333e last edited by

@3333e It's different issue and should be discussed in a different topic.