Experiencing the same issue. My OS is Ubuntu Budgie. Up until a couple of days ago everything was fine. Not sure what happened but I started experiencing the same issue. Videos play fine in Firefox and Chrome but Opera! I get the Error Code 102630

Ive been constantly checking for new updates since last week hoping an update would fix my issue. It finally happened. I didn’t really pay attention what the published updates were but after tilix finished installing the updates, I immediately tried playing videos on my Opera browser and noticed that the issue has been resolved. Thanks everyone!

@coss0475 I tried that and here's the output

ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so': No such file or directory

@styen thanks for the link. I installed it however it did not work. I will stick with chromium and firefox for now

@akaln said in This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 102630) After a crash:

Anyone knows how to install codecs for opera via snap?

@akaln I think their suggestion is to install codecs through snap..? The software app also has some codec stuff but not sure which ones to install.

So I sent this through bug reporting, and below is the response I received

Thank you for your report.

It looks like your report connected with media on Linux OS.

Unfortunately, Opera dem and rpm doesn't support H.264/MP4 codec natively. We recommend using snap to avoid such problems with codecs.

If you want to fix it manually, please try the following:

Download Chromium, if you don't have it installed yet.
Now run the following command in Linux Shell: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.32 (this command links the Chromium libffmpeg.so file to Opera).
Restart Opera and visit this site to check that HTML 5 playback works correctly.
Thank you for helping improve Opera!
Best wishes, the Opera QA Team

I executed the above command and it returned error message saying there is no such directory. I'm also not sure on installing codecs through snap as they suggest.

Experiencing the same issue. My OS is Ubuntu Budgie. Up until a couple of days ago everything was fine. Not sure what happened but I started experiencing the same issue. Videos play fine in Firefox and Chrome but Opera! I get the Error Code 102630