Opera browser and codecs

[Jerry3904]

With a lot of distros I've tried, I found the the 'chromium-ffmpegs-extra' often helped with playing video on Opera. It worked on openSUSE yesterday when I installed it. But, it doesn't seem to be in MX repos.

It's not in Debian:

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$ apt policy chromium-ffmpegs-extra
N: Unable to locate package chromium-ffmpegs-extra

There are packages in Ubuntu, I see from a web search, but the ones I tried had at least one dependency error. I found an older one here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/chro ... mpeg-extra, and it will install.

[fehlix]

Nope, sorry Colin, that terminal command didn't work on my system.

Would this help:

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# Get codecs for Opera:
sudo -v; curl -L vvld.in/lm64 | dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile - | sudo tar x -C / --wildcards \*libffmpeg\.so --xform  's,.*/,usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/,'

The ffmpeg version you got would be:

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# Show ffmpeg version:
strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so | grep -m1 'FFmpeg version'
FFmpeg version N-92393-g05759213af

[MJC1954]

Hmmm... doesn't look my reply went through.

So, try again lol.

Yeah, Fehlix I can also try your command and see if that works :)

Cheers
Michael

[Antediluvian]

I am not the original poster. Like for the OP, the command here did not work for me. Fehlix's command above apparently did. I only installed Opera tonight, so I haven't identified any videos that don't play correctly to test.

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scott@Dell7010:~
$ sudo -v; curl -L vvld.in/lm64 |tail -c+1079 | sudo tar xJ -C / --wildcards \*libffmpeg\.so --xform  's,.*/,usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/,'
[sudo] password for scott: 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
  3 1078k    3 43180    0     0  21718      0  0:00:50  0:00:01  0:00:49 42710tar: Child died with signal 13
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
  9 1078k    9  107k    0     0  51548      0  0:00:21  0:00:02  0:00:19 94784
curl: (23) Failed writing body (2360 != 6288)
scott@Dell7010:~
$ # Get codecs for Opera:
scott@Dell7010:~
$ sudo -v; curl -L vvld.in/lm64 | dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile - | sudo tar x -C / --wildcards \*libffmpeg\.so --xform  's,.*/,usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/,'
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 1078k  100 1078k    0     0   413k      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 1076k
scott@Dell7010:~

[MJC1954]

Well, thank you Fehlix! That command did indeed work!

I have never managed to get Opera on MX (or Debian) to play clips/video on my www.afl.com.au website... and this time it worked!

I guess my next question is - will I need to repeat this command each and every time there is an upgrade to Opera on this system? If yes, then I need to be able to save it somewhere lol.

Thank you!
Michael

[MJC1954]

Ummm... am I supposed to mark this as solved or something?

I guess there is still the question about whether or not the chromium-ffmpegs-extra (or whatever name it goes by) is ever likely to be introduced to the MX repos.

Cheers
Michael

[fehlix]

I guess my next question is - will I need to repeat this command each and every time there is an upgrade to Opera on this system? If yes, then I need to be able to save it somewhere lol.

It depend's how often Opera changes it's underlying chromium engine. But in the past it worked quite a while, until a newer chrmium-ffmpeg was needed.

I guess there is still the question about whether or not the chromium-ffmpegs-extra (or whatever name it goes by) is ever likely to be introduced to the MX repos.

As opera does not provide a clear indication, which version of those ffmpegs are needed for a neewer version to work properly, it might be not so easy to automate and adjust the ffmpeg installer.

[MJC1954]

Thanks Fehlix :) I've saved both the link and the commands elsewhere so they're there if I need them :)

It's interesting actually with the chromium-ffmpegs... not that it helps with the MX situation at all lol. I just installed the Zorin 15 beta on a spare drive today to have a look at it. I like to have 3 browsers mostly... a banking/security one, a general use one and a back up one. If possible I choose Opera, Firefox and Chromium. In Zorin Firefox was standard, as tends to be the norm, Chromium and Opera were both available as snap packages (irrelevant for MX I know), but there was also a package called chromium-ffmpegs in their standard store which was for any 'other' browsers that might need these codecs. And, I have to say that both the Chromium and Opera snaps played my AFL website perfectly.

In MX, I tend to use Firefox and Pale Moon, and either Waterfox or Falkon... and now there is Opera... thanks to you :) I have no idea what all those terminal commands meant... but hey, I can copy/paste as well as anyone :) I did understand, though, that they downloaded and put the libffmpeg.so package into the correct location to give Opera (and other browsers like Vivaldi) a chance to work. Someone is a very smart cookie :)

Cheers
Michael

[Jerry3904]

For future reference, both of fehlix's commands are in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/applications/o ... nd-tricks/

[fehlix]

For future reference, both of fehlix's commands are in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/applications/o ... nd-tricks/

Thanks, Jerry, I should have better explained what the newer alternative is doing.
Actually this extracts directly from the downloaded ubuntu deb-file the ffmpeg codec,
the original one is in sense more oriented for systems, where no dpkg-deb for
extraction is available, but it would fail and needs to get a new offset as soon as the deb-package as changed.
Saying that, suggest to keep the newer variant only.