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It all has to do with "libffmpeg.so" included with opera for Linux.
Replace it with this one - > https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/
Once replaced you will have h264 and widevine support.
I looked everywhere to fix widevine support, but once I found out how to fix h264 that widevine (AFAIK) requires, everything started working.
It's too bad Opera hasn't fix this or doesn't care...
I hope this helps..
Regards
Ezequiel Partida
@GGINO tuve ese problema hace algunos meses, cada actualización de Opera volvía a reemplazar libffmpeg.so sin soporte de H264 necesaria para widevine. Sin widevine no es posible ver netflix, spotify, etc.
El archivo '/usr/lib64/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json' contiene lo siguiente:
[
"../../../../chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so",
"/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so",
"/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so"
]
La solución fue abrir una terminal y escribir lo siguiente:
mkdir -p /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/
unzip software/0.47.2-linux-x64.zip -d /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/
Esto me funciona en Mageia Linux 8 beta 1, Supongo que en los linux basados en Debian / Ubuntu el archivo '/usr/lib64/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json' es identico. Afortunadamente le da prioridad sobre libffmpeg.so incluido en Opera.
Espero les ayude.
Saludos
ZekeMX
@leocg I can't reply to a post also. It appears as Locked!!
Regards
ZekeMX
@jimunderscorep Hi,.... Opera did not work with spotify but once I replaced libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/ spotify started working great.
@gregurbi what distro do you use?.
In some distros you need to add libffmpeg.so to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
I'm using Mageia 7.1 64bit and I had to install it to /usr/lib64/opera
Just replace the one that comes included with your opera installation with the one from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/
Regards
I love you Guys!! Please don´t get me wrong.. You guys make one of the best Web Browsers for Linux and I love you... But! Please stop making us suffer.
I stop using Opera Browser for Linux some time ago since it gave me problems with Widevine.. I found that the problem was that libffmpeg.so inclueded in opera does not have H264 so based on ffmpeg_preload_config.json I created /lib/chromium-browser/libs and saved libffmpeg.so from https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/
This used to work great with Opera 64.x but now it does´t work with version 81.
I came back to Opera and Darn!!! problems again.
Come on opera! Why it does n´t work anymore?
I don´t wanna use Chrome or any other Web Browser.. I want to use Opera..
You guys decide if you want to make opera the #1 linux browser or not.
@maydin95 Hello and sorry for the delay.. My hard drive broke and I did not had any linux installed to test.
It seems to me that the Opera Developers don't have the intention to support widevine in Opera linux for some reason.
I did many changes and tests.
modified the widevine.config.json from: /opt/google/chrome/libwidevinecdm.so to /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so (and subsecuent) since the latest chrome changed the libwidevinecdm.so location.
I downloaded the latest libffmpeg.so and made sure H.264 support was enabled (Test it on: https://html5test.com/).
I created a soft link using: ln -s /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so /opt/google/chrome/ to be able to keep the original widevine_config.json file from opera (This worked great before so I didn't have to modify it everytime opera got updated.
Nothing works... 
In conclusion.. Opera doesn't work with widevine anymore (As of today), I hope the Opera Developers would explain why, but probably they don't care about linux users anymore.
I even installed Opera for Windows and noticed that there is a folder named WidevineCdm located at: C:\Users\userprofile\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable\WidevineCdm\ that seems to be google Chrome's.. so did the same on the linux side and did many tests, I even changed the manifest.json with no success.
I noticed that in the manifest.json file the widevine library for linux is not defined so I did it myself.. Still it doesn't work.
I have to say that I love Opera but since it doesn't work with widevine anymore and unable to watch netflix and listen to spotify I will remove it from my system.
I'll keep you posted just in case it works for me.
Regards
Ezequiel Partida (ZekeMX)