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I have run Opera for many years now under WindowMaker. But from Opera 80 the screen is flickering heavily and makes the browser unusable. I use Vivaldi as a workaround (!) The screen is heavily flickering when hovering the mouse over:
Anyone an idea, a hint or a workaround? Other browsers (Vivaldi, Brave, FireFox, Chromium) work fine.
Debian Testing (Bookworm)
Richard
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.