h264 video does not play in Opera with Ubuntu 19.10

Question

I can't watch h.264 video mp4 format in Opera browser. Ubuntu version 19.10. It was working in 19.04.

I think the problem is due to the absence of h264 decoder. To solve it, just install the needed libraries mentioned in the link shared by @digiwizkid . — singrium, Oct 22 '19 at 08:32

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 24 '19 at 07:38

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I solved this by installing the Opera browser from the snap store, so it can use Chromium codecs. In 19.10 Chromium can only be installed by snap. I found this solution on the Opera forums.

edited Oct 24 '19 at 07:38

Zanna

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answered Oct 22 '19 at 08:38

hep 365

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '19 at 21:45

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In my experience, to install Opera from snap was not necessary. Just install the chromium codecs from snap by:

sudo snap install chromium-ffmpeg

Then go to the created /snap/chromium-ffmpeg directory and search for the libffmpeg.so file (I just selected the folder with the higher number supposing is the newest, in my case /snap/chromium-ffmpeg/15/chromium-ffmpeg-95241).

Copy and replace the libffmpeg.so file to the /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera directory. That worked for me.

edited Oct 26 '19 at 21:45

Eliah Kagan

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answered Oct 26 '19 at 20:10

worked for me too (I can now uninstall google-chrome browser) – pierrely Jan 16 '20 at 05:16

h264 video does not play in Opera with Ubuntu 19.10

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