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for those using ubuntu 24.04.3 with gnome using wayland , snap version, read way to fix it here:
https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2025/11/opera-124-0-5705-65-stable-update/

@opera-qa-team:

yesterday already could open opera ( 124.0.5705.70) snap version, on ubuntu 24.04.3.
so far videos like using youtube are working fine.
The step are down.

i did some testing and for those using linux with wayland with snap ( like me, which i am using ubuntu gnome) with version
with version 124.0.5705.70 and try if you can open it.

i recommend doing the following:

• if you are not last version: 124.0.5705.70, do it

with last version, using wayland, you can not open then:

• switch to x11, by using this command in terminal: opera --ozone-platform=x11
• export yours bookmarks, close the terminal
• uninstall opera snap: snap remove opera ( or via software store)
• install it again: snap install opera ( or via software store)
• try to open it
• if it can open then, import your bookmarks.

Some issue that i detect, in snap using wayland:

• main menu icon, small
• main menu icon when menu is open, is on top of icon
• on "easy setup" menu > layout section, when choosing autohide, the browser crash

i dont know what you change, but you have to fix, because x11 is working fine, however few desktop env and linux distros are starting to move on to wayland, so it is important that work in same way in x11 as well as wayland.

thank you

@burnout426:
hi, in previous versions i did not have this problem.
i did my research and up to opera team again to fix this.
"his issue has been previously documented in Firefox and other snap applications, where the fix involved modifying the snap's snapcraft.yaml to bind the file from the GNOME platform snap" -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1710326

this is not first time opera mess up the snap version, last time running videos was broking, even with chromium-ffmep snap.
So please Opera team fix this.
Thank you.

Hi, the snap version, using ubuntu 24.04.03 with gnome with wayland, not working.
this version did not fix snap + wayland: 124.0.5705.70

@opera-qa-team:
Hi, i dont know if first comment entered.
Again, today already update the snap version with version ended in 70 and it is not working.
this is the second time that you broke snap version, not to mention that using deb version would be useless since it cannot run videos, because cannot find the path to ffmeg or snap chromim-ffmepg.
I am using ubuntu 24.04.3, gnome version, using wayland.
when run in terminal by writting opera, this is what is showing on terminal:
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids: No such file or directory
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids: No such file or directory
/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids: No such file or directory
[1127/220648.566890:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[1127/220648.568579:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[1127/220648.568964:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[1127/220648.569156:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/util/linux/ptracer.cc:605] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[1127/220648.651187:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[1127/220648.675839:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[1127/220648.676048:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[1127/220648.676248:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
[10936:10951:1127/220648.861628:ERROR:net/socket/ssl_client_socket_impl.cc:915] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -3
[11061:11061:1127/220648.862142:ERROR:chrome/browser/process_singleton_posix.cc:231] read() failed: Connection reset by peer (104)

@burnout426:
thanks for the tips but it is better to not break others apps that depend on snap ffmpeg .
Any expected date when new version of opera will be released ?

@burnout426:
where is this DNA-116350 on a blog post ?

What about other issue with white box showing around on right menu or similar ?

Hi Opera Team, i am at version version: 109.0.5097.68, snap version on linux ubuntu 22.04,
where is changelog for this version.
Again in linux on snap version, bad release because i can not watch videos again. This is the second time, wtf.
I have chromium-ffmpeg snap package, it should be working.

Please fix this .

Another problem is existing white box shadow, for example when open main menu of opera, on right click around menu, on bookmarks when show element of a folder.

unfortunately i could not upload a img to show.

Hi Opera team,

today i was notified from snap D to update opera to version Opera One(version: 107.0.5045.21), which i did and

for those using opera as snap with another snap package call 'chromium-ffmpeg' and Ubuntu 22.04,, i am pleased to confirm that it is working Video Is Working Again !!!!

Thanks Opera team, after two releases, for at least fix problem on Linux for those using snap.

@alexs Hi,

i dont recommend posting this kind of solutions because this bug is responsibility of Opera team.

By posting this kind answer, they will never fix this problem as they should.

I have the same problem even the snap version of Opera which you have a another snap package that take care of codecs for chromium base browser, which was updated 2th of feb e now even with this videos are broken.

@ironbone
Hi, i will not try what you show me because since i am using snap version with that snap package that i mention, it should not be needed to manual update the codecs for opera.

As never should be needed as well as on other version of the packages like deb. Since i dont have such problems like thin on browser, where for example today just apply another update for brave ( which is a deb package which it work with snap version of codecs for chromiuim base browsers)

This is the fault of Opera not on OS and related packages.
As i said this is a old problem that Opera team seams to not care and made even worst on snap version

Hi, again same problem with no playing videos on linux like ubuntu, now even on snap version.
This is start to be hell over and over again.

Why since version 160 latest minor version ( 70) and also this new major no videos. Even in some some in youtube.
I am using ubuntu 22.04 with opera snap because with of another snap chromium-ffmpeg was working fine.
the chromium-ffmpeg snap was update at 2 February 2024 (https://snapcraft.io/chromium-ffmpeg).

Other browser like brave is working fine.
First with deb or rpm is to forget because since the codecs didnt come together.
Now even with snap version with another snap for codecs, this does not working, what hell Opera team doing on Linux version package of Opera.
I dont understand why this problem still persist on linux version.

Why still releasing for linux if you cannot solve the problem like other chromium based browser like brave or vivaldi ?

What is the point of a browser if you cannot watch videos?

Why you, opera team just apply a fix to find the correct path of ffmeg is on the system or search for that snap packages, why so hard to do this ??????

This is not the first time i am commenting about this.

@albano23: Hi, same here. since version 160 latest minor version ( 70) and also this new major no videos. Even in some some in youtube.
I am using ubuntu 22.04 with opera snap because with of another snap chromium-ffmpeg was working fine.
the chromium-ffmpeg snap was update at 2 February 2024 (https://snapcraft.io/chromium-ffmpeg).

Other browser like brave is working fine.

@leocg

3 years has past you / Opera are saying the same thing:
"We don't 'choose' to limit this functionality. Unfortunately there are complicated legal restrictions around distributing support for H264 video decoding, and it comes down to 'we can't give you this functionality ourselves'.

Therefore we rely on others to give it to you. On Windows and Mac, it's the operating system that provides libraries that do H264 decoding, and Opera uses those. On Linux it's a bit more complicated, but it comes down to 'we use what Chromium uses except we can't give it to you ourselves'."

You choose to simple to do nothing about it.

When my boss ask about a task, he want solutions not problems.

Like i said when i install Brave, it has same problem, however when I install ffmepg or openH264, , somehow finds the path to the codes and works.

It is not first time i am writing about this.

I am writing this because i want to keep using this browser.
And when i choose a linux distro i want to choose how i want to install it with .deb / .rpm or snap.

Again, in quotation, you currently are choosing to to limit this functionality instead of solve the problem.

@leocg
This why was removed from chromium. but the problems remains and still cannot watch videos by default.

You, opera since 2020, didnt try to figure out a solution. Why?
However others chromium base browsers they solved the problem.

Go to forum, exist several post about this problem since 2020 and Opera didnt find a way to solve this.

example https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solved-solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon/166

more recently :
https://forums.opera.com/topic/65303/video-and-opera-does-not-seem-to-be-going-good-on-linux-mint?_=1692467547492

What is the point of a browser not showing / play any kind of media.

if you cannot solve this problem for linux distro why insist to make it still available for Linux base OS ?

You, opera team, made the browser keep read same path of codec which is not with opera installation.

Why keep insisting in same mistake?

With openH264 you will not have same issue, this is what FF uses, so why not use / add it ?

Or since problem is with Path where codec are, why not do Opera search for codec possible installation paths like Brave do ?

If you cannot solve ask for help to other chromium base browsers for the sake of users.

Thanks.

Hi, since opera release a complete new visual, i was expected that they would fix also the problem on Linux with video codecs and with respetives packages without the need of using snap.
When will exist a fix for those installing opera with .deb package or .rpm ? thanks.

@mochica

This is only valid for chromium base browsers like opera, brave vivaldi, etc. because few years ago the codes were removed from chromium.

However, for example brave, when i install ffmeg or have open264 or even the snap code version installed, it finds one of this codecs and the videos works fine in brave.

However in Opera, expects the folder in the one of folders of the opera browser, which is wrong and they should fix this way.

@maniganala

But it is suprising that you still in their forum, if you are not using it anymore. LOL.

This should not be up to the user to fix this.

Even they release a complete new version and still dont fix with problem with find codecs path installed in the user machine !!!!!

Hi,
this is not specific to mint / ubuntu

But also all debian base distro and fedora.

I dont understand why opera team since they decide release a complete redesign browser, why didnt fix the problem witn .deb and .rpm packages for linux.

Why not make the browser search for codec package like ffmeg, openH264 in user machine. Why no Ask to install ?

A browser like Brave automatically detect the codecs and works fine even with a snap codec base.

In some old posts alredy asked this, Why Opera still does not Fix this? i dont want to install / to use snap if i am using fedora, mint , popOS, etc.

Please fix this, just use openH264 ( with libopenh264 decoder) inside of Opera or Fix the Paths to find which codecs the user machine has.

Maybe i will create a seprate post about, because the old one about this issue was closed which i dont agree with the solution.
Thanks