Comments on: Opera for Linux ffmpeg codec hell

By: Janush

Janush — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 05:35:05 +0000

Almost three years later and this issue still persists \o/

By: Fludizz

Fludizz — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:05:51 +0000

On Ubuntu 19.10, libffmpeg from chromium is no longer available via apt. You need to install chromium-ffmpeg via snap, then you can symlink the latest version to the opera lib_extra folder. I use these commands in a terminal: If you don't already have lib_extra created: sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra Snap installs multiple versions of libffmpeg, use this to soft-link to the "latest" version of libffmpeg: sudo ln -fs `find /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/ -name "libffmpeg.so" | sort | tail -n 1` /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/ Rerun above command after each update of chromium-ffmpeg to ensure the latest version is linked. Restart Opera and it'll work again.

By: brotherj4mes

brotherj4mes — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:43:58 +0000

Thanks for writing this, I found it helpful. Just wanted to add that you can also place the "good" libffmpeg.so into /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extras/ (I had to create this directory) and videos still work for me. This allows you to preserve the original libffmpeg in case it's good for anything else. I'm also thinking/hoping that it won't get overwritten when opera updates which means that you won't have to repeat this process every few weeks as you mentioned.

By: Vadim

Vadim — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:02:38 +0000

Just install Chromium and find the path to it, and the path to Opera folder.
(/usr/lib/chromium-browser and usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera for example)
Then open file manager with root and copy libffmpeg.so from chromium folder to opera folder

By: chumba

chumba — Wed, 08 May 2019 19:19:32 +0000

This didn't work for me. Opera won't even load anymore after I switched to the latest codec for my system.

Do I have to have Chrome installed? I only have Opera and Firefox.