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@nneo16 said in Netflix error 07701-1003 on every new install of Opera on Linux Mint:
Seems like another issue with the libffmpeg.so, please search this forum, you will find answer.
I did. I found the answer - Vivladi. 
Seriously, I have no allegiance to Opera, so if it doesn't work...
@sgunhouse said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@operafan123 Netflix will also require widevine.
Of course, and it's there and updated to the latest
@sgunhouse said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@operafan123 And did you install the codecs for Chromium 89.0?
I simply followed the instructions from the above original post
"First of all, you need to install the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package. You can do this using the terminal with the following command:
sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
Usually the second step is to create a symlink for the file libffmpeg.so, but since now the Opera browser delivers a file with this name (but not solving the problem), we will delete it and then create a simlink to the new file. File deletion:
sudo rm /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
Creating a simlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/"
I will also add that a fresh install does not work - even on a new machine, yet a fresh install of Vivaldi, and Chrome both work with Netflix without problems
Version:75.0.3969.93
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Linux Mint 20.1 (x86_64; X-Cinnamon)
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@nickonicko said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):
@zarathustra-f90
Thank you for your help.
It works !!!
When I symlink that library Opera refuses to start. Changing in back to the original library, and Opera works again
Is it actually supposed to work "out of the box" on a fresh install these days? Linux Mint is just another debian/ubuntu derivative.
The Widevine component is reported as 4.10.2209.0 and is up to date.
Netflix plays on Chrome.