When replacing opera's libffmpeg.so by the chromium one I get this:

/usr/bin/opera: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/opera: undefined symbol: avcodec_parameters_to_context

R.

It's the same old story. At each release Opera is proud of speeding things up for 1% but video/audio is a persistent problem. I think that time has come to dump Opera after so many years. I really get fed up with this eternal audio/video problem. I know Opera is not supporting these codecs out of the box, but I have no idea why it's fscking up my config at each upgrade.

R.

Yes, and it would be nice if Opera would give a clear error message like "codec not supported" and a link to a FAQ or a solution. Not just a greyed out audio bar...

I miss the good old newsserver btw. Pity that they switched the thing off.

Anyway, it works fine now. Thnx for your answer!

Richard.

Is there a way to change the subject of the thread? I'd like to add [SOLVED]

Richard.

BTW, I just found this at the Opera site. AFAIUI mp3 and aac is not supported natively by Opera. Question remains why nobody complains.

Richard.

Thnx, this was the solution. I installed a package called chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra which I was able to find at the ubuntu packages site.

OTOH the question remains why the libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera doesn't work. The two libffmpeg.so files are mentioned in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json and the Opera native one does not support aac and mp3 according to http://html5test.com.

Quite strange IMHO, as nobody seems to encounter this particular problem...

Richard.

There is the libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera:

$ ls -al /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1280528 Nov 7 12:44 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

There is a libffmpeg that comes with qmmp, but installing that package does not make any difference. I checked the file:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json

and the path to that particular Opera lib wasn't there. I added it, restarted Opera, but still no mp3...

I threw away the ~/.config/opera/ dir, but no difference. It seems that I'm the only one with this particular problem. I have no standard config, I'd like to keep my system simple, but OTOH Firefox, VLC, mplayer etc work fine.

R.

What mechanisme does Opera use to recognize mime types?

R.

Continu discussion in Opera for unix

Richard.

continued from Opera for Windows: this thread

Opera 41.0.2353.56 on Debian Testing, amd64

Opera does not play mp3 files, while AFAIK, it should. Instead, Opera asks where to download the file instead of playing it:

ogg example

mp3 example

The ogg plays, the mp3 is greyed out. When I click a direct link to an mp3, opera asks where to download the file:

direct mp3

OTOH, there is a site http://odb.org/ on which there is an mp3 which is played by Opera (not by flash) and AFAICS this site uses the same audio settings as the examples above.

The OS plays all types of audio formats, VLC, mplayer, FireFox, no problem. Anyone a hint why ogg is playing and mp3 is not?

Richard.