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.
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.
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.
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?
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 …
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.
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
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!
