My Opera browser stop playing videos on certain sites such as Facebook, Pluto TV, XUMO TV, etc. Up until last week everything was fine. Not sure what happened. So I sent this up to Opera, and here’s their response;
" Thank you for your report.
It looks like your report connected with media on Linux OS.
Unfortunately, Opera dem and rpm doesn’t support H.264/MP4 codec natively. We recommend using snap to avoid such problems with codecs.
If you want to fix it manually, please try the following:
Download Chromium, if you don’t have it installed yet.
Now run the following command in Linux Shell: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.32 (this command links the Chromium libffmpeg.so file to Opera).
Restart Opera and visit this site to check that HTML 5 playback works correctly.
Thank you for helping improve Opera!
Best wishes, the Opera QA Team "
So, as Opera support suggested I tried to execute the line below;
sudo ln -s /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/37/chromium-ffmpeg-114023/chromium-ffmpeg/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so
And here's the output;
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so': No such file or directory
I would appreciate any help
Cheers!
It seems you don’t have any /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so: maybe trying with a locate libffmpeg.so and then check file properties could help
Ive been constantly checking for new updates since last week hoping an update would fix my issue. It finally happened. I didn’t really pay attention what the published updates were but after tilix finished installing the updates, I immediately tried playing videos on my Opera browser and noticed that the issue has been resolved. Thanks everyone!