My problem is this, Opera browser does not reproduces/play html5 video. Installing “chromium-ffmpeg-extra” does not solves the issue.
After digging a bit i realized it was a problem with “libffmpeg.so” the one that ships with Opera just does not work and the one that comes with chromium-ffmpeg-extra gets install in a different path/directory where Opera just don’t bother to look into.
Every time Opera gets updated i have to delete libffmpeg.so from
/usr/lib64/opera/
and copy the one from
/usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra/
into it.
Clearly this is some sort of packaging issue, so my question is where should i report it, to opensuse’s bugzilla or directly to Opera?
Just to be sure, did you try a full switch to Packman?
Clearly this is some sort of packaging issue, so my question is where should i report it, to opensuse’s bugzilla or directly to Opera?
Well, Opera is proprietary, closed-source software, and the openSUSE package just contains the file from Opera’s binary RPM download.
So I’d say this is better reported directly to Opera… (although it might be possible to “fix” it in openSUSE’s package by replacing the libffmpeg.so, no idea)
I know, but ffmpeg is.
Opera’s libffmpeg.so may use the system’s ffmpeg libraries.
Like Chromium does btw, you don’t need chromium-ffmpeg-extra for chromium anymore because of that.
Well i do have ffmpeg and related libraries installed from packman. I removed them along with Opera, re-install them all but chromium-ffmpeg-extra, no go same issue.
Removing libffmpeg.so from opera’s folder brakes it,
opera: error while loading shared libraries: libffmpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Since this happen with both packages the one in opensuse’s repo and the one from their webpage, i assume they haven’t “updated” to the changes that allows it to ditch chromium-ffmpeg-extra.
Sadly Firefox eats my CPU cycles while watching videos online, unlike Opera and i really don’t like Chrome/Chromium or Vivaldi.
Sadly Firefox eats my CPU cycles while watching videos online, unlike Opera and i really don’t like Chrome/Chromium or Vivaldi.
Have you tried Falkon already?
(the new/latest version of QupZilla)
I’m just using it the first time here watching a live soccer match, and it works much better on my very old Radeon system than Firefox ever did in my experience.
Though I’d rather contribute that to the fact that it doesn’t use flash-player… (it uses QtWebEngine that’s based on Chromium)
erlangen:~ # zypper if opera
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package opera:
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Repository : **repo-non-oss**
Name : opera
Version : 52.0.2871.30-1.1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 185.9 MiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : opera-52.0.2871.30-1.1.src
Summary : Proprietary web browser
Description :
Opera is a proprietary, fast, and user-friendly web browser.
It includes web developer tools, news aggregation, and the ability
to compress data via Opera Turbo on congested networks.
erlangen:~ #
That depends on which codec the video is encoded with, of course.
I assume Opera’s libffmpeg.so only lacks support for certain ones, which joder666 appears to need.
Similar to openSUSE’s ffmpeg/libavcodec packages, which only lack support for non-free/restricted codecs, but play back fine free ones (which does include MPEG2 since recently… )
Well, there is no /usr/lib64/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so in the opera package at all.
It only contains a file /usr/lib/opera/libffmpeg.so as mentioned previously, which obviously is “crippled”…
But apparently ffmpeg-chromium-extra in Packman has been updated meanwhile to include that symlink.
From the package changelog:
Sat Mar 24 00:09:38 UTC 2018 - fisiu@opensuse.org
- Make symlink to allow Opera find libffmpeg.so.
So the issue is “solved” meanwhile (or better, “workarounded” in Packman’s ffmpeg-chromium-extra package ).
(it uses QtWebEngine that’s based on Chromium)