Ah, I'm sorry,

my bad, I had obviously a f$%&up in my packet manager! Opera told me in the Update dialog it's already at latest release when it obviously wasn't. After a manual upgrade of opera-stable on the commnd line now 69.0.3686.36 is running and codecs are working fine.

Sorry for the hassle, I just wanted to understand what's the problem to be able to make a educated problem solving decision.

Thanks again for your help!

I understand the problem but I don't understand why the latest update of opera (some days ago) didn't fix this long and well known problem when in opera-beta it's already fixed.

Also it is said in your linked post that opera has no control over the ubuntu PPA, but as I said I use the PPA http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable

In light of this Ican't get my head around the fact that even after the latest update the stable opera is still broken.

PS.: Version is 68.0.3618.173

All the best!

As already mentioned here there are persisting playback problems regarding certain video codecs on Ubuntu and similar.

In the linked thread a workaround is proposed which works fine for me.

But In the linked thread there is also a statement that legal issues prevent the development team from providing a reliable solution.

Now I wonder, why the opera-beta version doesn't have such problems. Wouldn't be that in opposition to such claims bein the issue a legal problem? (I use PPA http://deb.opera.com/opera-stable)