The Videos Don't Play Topic

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

Can confirm this solved the issue for me.
I figured out how to use snap library, as @mr-matt-eastwood suggested.

On Manjaro Linux 20, opera directory is /usr/lib/opera.
You don't have to delete original libffmpeg.so file, but just rename it to whatever (including extension).

Steps:

# If you cannot use sudo -i, then just prefix your commands with sudo
sudo -i 
# Close your browser by hand. Following command will ensure no Opera processes are running in the background
killall opera
cd /usr/lib/opera
# Some software automatically loads any .so/.dll file that is present. Not sure for Opera, but just in case
mv libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so_original
snap install chromium-ffmpeg
# Please note that chromium-ffmpeg-95241 path might differ. Just pickup one with highest number. 
ln -sf /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-95241/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so

Works like charm.

This worked like charm. Only change I noticed is opera path: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera for version 100.0.4815.76

that worked. thanks.

@marek-online Worked well with my Xubuntu 22,04 LTS here. I just created a backup of this original shitty ffmpeg and changed the second command to the corresponding folder in my computer:

sudo cp /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/34/chromium-ffmpeg-111306/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera-beta/libffmpeg.so

Thank you all for the tips!

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

Can confirm this solved the issue for me.
I figured out how to use snap library, as @mr-matt-eastwood suggested.

On Manjaro Linux 20, opera directory is /usr/lib/opera.
You don't have to delete original libffmpeg.so file, but just rename it to whatever (including extension).

Steps:

# If you cannot use sudo -i, then just prefix your commands with sudo
sudo -i 
# Close your browser by hand. Following command will ensure no Opera processes are running in the background
killall opera
cd /usr/lib/opera
# Some software automatically loads any .so/.dll file that is present. Not sure for Opera, but just in case
mv libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so_original
snap install chromium-ffmpeg
# Please note that chromium-ffmpeg-95241 path might differ. Just pickup one with highest number. 
ln -sf /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-95241/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so

Works like charm.

This works on Fedora (38 Workstation tested) as well, but paths are slightly different.
chromium-ffmpeg snap: /var/lib/snapd/snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-111306/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so
Opera install dir: /usr/lib64/opera

ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/chromium-ffmpeg-111306/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so

chromium-ffmpeg version might differ, so make sure to find the directory with the highest number by using:

ls -al /var/lib/snapd/snap/chromium-ffmpeg/current/

As always, make sure to backup original libffmpeg.so file, as I had experience where Opera would refuse to start with new file - probably incompatible version.

@xzero That's work perfectly for me. Thank you very much !!

This should not be up to the user to fix this.

Even they release a complete new version and still dont fix with problem with find codecs path installed in the user machine !!!!!

I uninstalled Opera.
That was the best solution for me.

@maniganala

But it is suprising that you still in their forum, if you are not using it anymore. LOL.

I am getting this error in most of the websites except YouTube and few others.
plz help i am unable to see videos on websites like
https://superflix.la/

@superflixla
Try these different versions of libffmpeg.so until opera start opening on your system:

https://github.com/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases

https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/

https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/chromium

In case you don't know how, find opera folder in /usr/ folder (with the command: find /usr/ -depth -maxdepth 10 -iname 'opera') and copy libffmpeg.so in it (that file should already be in that folder).

@vbnvbn Thank you very much!

@xzero man, I really like to use Opera and you just saved me.
Thank you very much!

@pixcatholica same issue with me, tried many things but not working for me.

Hi everyone!
I started to use opera on my personal laptop. My OS is Ubuntu 23.10 with kernel Linux 6.5.0-13-generic.
My problem is when I go Youtube, Most of videos play properly but some of videos does not play with this error: "Your browser can't play this video."
What may cause it, and how to solve it?

@exiort None of the solutions above help?

I create a script that install the broken library and fix the opera bug.

https://github.com/nicolas-meilan/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg

@RungeKutta Thank you for creating that script, worked perfectly for me!

@geokar this work perfect for me on LMDE 6... Thanks buddy

Install Chromium
Copy the file libffmpeg.so to Opera
sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so