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@lavanyadeepak-0 Use https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
But first reinstall opera

sudo apt reinstall opera-stable

This solves the problem.
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

@valdineidossantos follow steps from that page https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
But note that script can't run automatically if you're installing Opera manually by dpkg. In such case you'll need to run script as described in step 3, or using alias "fix-opera" if you've made step 4.

@linuc You need to install git to clone the repo.
Or download and unpack https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/archive/refs/heads/main.zip and make install.sh executable

Opera 99 seems to be incompatible with latest libffmpeg.so (0.77.0)
If you're using https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine simply re-run "fix-opera" in console

I'll republish 0.77 after opera 100 release, so do not install it immediately after release, better wait day or two.

@spinnekop just use deb version and this fix: https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

@vbnvbn
Fix:
Main branch. Currently works fine:
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine
Testing branch allowing to create auto-fix hook for apt (hope to get feedback if it works or not):
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/tree/lazy

https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine works
On Arch-based and Debian-based distros it may run automatically after opera update

@cupid-101 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine/

@lavanyadeepak-0 it needs newer version.
Restore back original libffmpeg.so and then use this https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

@john-53 said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

@clafix said in The Videos Don't Play Topic:

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.

I'm using the same Opera version but I can't find the #use-angle flag.

It's only in windows version.

@linuc said in Solving the problem of the Opera browser with video playback in Ubuntu and similar distributions (Linux Mint, KDE neon):

@styen

Hm...the update function in Opera Menu is not doing anything. So I tried with the terminal using

sudo apt --only-upgrade install

so...

q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo apt --only-upgrade install opera-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
opera-stable is already the newest version (81.0.4196.60).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
q4os@q4os-desktop:~/Desktop$

It looks as I have to be patiently until Q4OS sends the next Opera update? Or what can I do?

Also you may download it directly from opera.com

@darkshadow05 https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine should work

@valdineidossantos said in Youtube page crashes:

@styen But my last installations works fine. the bug started after last opera update Yesterday

New version of Opera based on Chromium 100 which is incompatible with older libffmpeg.so. So if you applied old fix that replaced libffmpeg.so that comes with Opera, it will crash on every page containing video or sound.

The script above doesn't replace that lib, but adds new one to lib_extra folder.

@jeremy-ron
sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99fix-opera

@benutzerx simply use this: https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

@tobiasitalo said in Video does not play:

Hello, I followed the steps in the indicated repository, but it was not able to solve my problem this time. On another occasion it worked promptly.
https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

It's intended to work mainly with stable release.

@juandev https://forums.opera.com/topic/33993/cannot-print-from-opera
sudo snap connect opera:cups-control :cups-control

@gidici61 parse list to get versions list, sort by version number, get latest version and then download it

LATEST_VERSION=`wget -q4O - https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/ | grep -Po 'href="\K.*?(?=/")' | sort -V | tail -n1`
wget "https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/${LATEST_VERSION}/linux/opera-stable_${LATEST_VERSION}_amd64.deb"

@valdineidossantos there is time lag between the publish of new opera release and corresponding ffmpeg version