Posts made by mtompset

When I log into netflix and get Error O7355, I run this script. I have Chromium installed as a snap on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

#!/bin/bash

DATE=date --iso-8601
cp /snap/chromium/current/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.chromium.$DATE
if [ ! -f "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.opera.$DATE" ]; then
cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.opera.$DATE
fi
cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.chromium.$DATE /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

I have had to do this every single time opera updates.

It's all about the libffmpeg.so file, as far as I can tell.
On my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine, I have Chrome, Chromium, Opera, and perhaps other browsers installed.

Granted your version of Chromium may differ, and the location of library may differ too, but this generally fixed my opera's inability to play.

$ sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.original
$ sudo cp /snap/chromium/1229/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.chromium.1229
$ sudo cp /snap/chromium/1229/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

Notice I purposefully created a backup copy to replace if things go horribly wrong. Also a good idea to not do this while Opera is open.