Opera web browser video playing bug

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#1

Sorry for the bad wording, I don’t know English.

SNAP Opera web browser, latest. You can’t play videos, 80% of websites don’t play videos. Videa.hu, Facebook, Twitter, Tik-tok, I only mention the more well-known ones. But the video does not work on 100 websites. Only YouTube works, but even there the video stops after a few minutes and says: This video cannot be played, the browser is not suitable.

Unfortunately, this is a familiar topic to me, the Opera browser on Linux has been working with this error for 5 years. For DEB installation, opera-ffmpeg-codec or another version of chromium-ffmpeg helped, but not always. I ask, what can be done to make Opera play the videos? Test installation Firefox, Vivaldi, even Edge works fine, but Opera does not.

#2

Linux distributions often require additional multimedia codecs to play certain types of videos. You mentioned opera-ffmpeg-codec , but there might be other codecs required as well. Double-check that you have all necessary multimedia codecs installed for your distribution.

#3

All other browsers play the videos. In other words, Ubuntu has the codecs. Opera Snap, does it include everything, or am I wrong? The ffmpeg codec must also be included in the container.

#4

Do you have the chromium-ffmpeg snap installed ?

Suggests it should provide the missing bits to opera

#5

Thank you, you are very good, I read the linked thread, but I don’t understand a single letter, I am an average user. What should I do to make Snap Opera play H264 video?

#6

start with installing the codecs content snap like:

$ sudo snap install chromium-ffmpeg

then check if opera did auto-connect to it with:

$ snap connections opera
#7

I did it. No changes. Is the problem that I’m using Ubuntu 18.04? Here is the terminal output:

https://mega.nz/file/AtAymJqa#RVqGjKV9T1K7cnl-qQOVEHJUZ1HUrRp_iqKKxBabQ0I

#8

so i see:

content[chromium-ffmpeg-111306]  opera:chromium-ffmpeg-111306    chromium-ffmpeg:chromium-ffmpeg-111306  -

which is exactly the content interface i was talking about … it seems all connected and you obviously have the chromium-ffmpeg snap installed already, so technically it should all work …

your host distro version should not really have any impact on snaps usually …

#9

I tried reproducing the problem but couldn’t. With chromium-ffmpeg installed, Opera is playing videos fine here (tested Youtube and Facebook).

If you try again but by opening a terminal and entering opera, do you see any relevant message?

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#10

Got the bug!! Thank you all for your support.

One question, how can the language be assumed in this Snap Opera? I added Hungarian under Settings–>Language, Opera restarts, machine restarts but the language of the interface is English. Unfortunately, I don’t speak it, I should speak Hungarian.

#11

Sorry, what do you mean with “got the bug”? If you solved it, please write it so that others with the same problem can benefit from your solution.

I do not know how Opera handles localization, and since it’s a closed source program you are better off asking their support directly about that.

#12

Snap Opera, I messed up the launch location.

/snap/opera/current/usr/bin/opera

I gave this as the route, but it’s not good because it starts the old installed browser, not Snap. I don’t know why the original Opera is symlinked here, but starting it starts the old browser, which does not play the videos.

/snap/bin/opera

This is the good route, it plays everything.

Language, I looked it up. Linux, unfortunately there is NO language setting for Opera, I think this is stupid because it is on Windows. It uses the language of the installed system, but since it is a snap container, it is so dumbed down that it cannot determine the language localization. Solution:

/snap/bin/opera --lang=hu

This is how you can set the language hu=Hungarian in the launcher icon and that’s exactly what I need :slight_smile:

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#13

I messed up the launch location.

/snap/opera/current/usr/bin/opera

Oh, classic but understandable mistake to make, as this runs outside snap confinement. We should make it clear when people launch the wrong binary, I believe there is really no indication it is not to be used.

/snap/bin/opera --lang=hu

Very nice! And thank you for sharing your solutions!