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Good News! Found a site that talks about the old Opera, the substitution of the libffmpeg.so file fix, and a workaround.
[link text]https://newbedev.com/opera-your-browser-does-not-currently-recognize-any-of-the-video-formats-available(link url)
As far as full disclosure - I have not followed the steps... so as usual: YMMV. I've been using a different browser of late. Looks promising though.
HTH.
@mmichel said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:
@leocg: If Opera cannot provide a working libffmpeg/WidevineCdm library, can they at least provide some contrib scripts to update them more smoothly for Linux not-savvy users ?
And having a warning that we miss some chromium plugin or alternate download of Widevine library would be more useful that "Video is broken" message from the provider, IMO.
You have when we right-mouse click on a link: Open Link in New Tab | Open Link in New Window | Open Link in Private Window.... etc...
Perhaps you can give your users an option such as: Open Link in Chromium ... for Linux users? No it's not the best solution... It's a workaround... but better than a big screen stating 'error'....
@dperecky - This works now!! I can watch very new YouTube videos.... 2hrs fresh... with Opera!
That's so great!
This is for: ```
Version:68.0.3618.165
Opera is up to date
Update stream:Stable
System:Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS (x86_64; pop:GNOME)
For new YouTube videos... I get this message many times:
Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.
Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video.
I have to take the link and replug it into a different browser to see these videos...
This happened on Opera for Linux.... on various ubuntus 18.04 and 20, and in PopOs 18.04 and now... version 20.04 LTS // Opera is up to date: version 68.0.3618.165
@adasiko - Thank You for your reply. It's just that it's the same PC, the same .vhd file, but diff virt boxes- different versions and different windows.
Would you recommend a different virtualization method - Linux on Windows?
Take Care....
Using Virt Box - Linux Ubuntu 18.04.2 on Windows and with Windows 7 and Windows 8.0 dual boot. The virtual machine virtual HD file is the same file used on both sides.
Win 7 VirtBox - vrs 6.0.10 132072 // Win 8.0 VirtBox - vrs 6.1.0 135406
Right now Ubuntu on top of Windows works well on both sides... Even Opera works pretty well.... except for two cases....
I would think that I should be able to get to Opera Settings on either system.... Any help you can provide would be great.....