[Solved] Codec H.264 (for Opera Browser)

[bester69]

Do you any know how to enable this codec in opera browser?

thanks,

[phenest]

It looks like Opera requires ffmpeg to support h264, but doesn't ship with it.
This may help:
http://ruario.ghost.io/2014/12/19/addin ... for-linux/

[phenest]

http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1869 ... roblems/p1
The last post seems to have an answer.

[bester69]

http://forums.opera.com/discussion/1869 ... roblems/p1
The last post seems to have an answer.

It was quite simple, I just need libffmpeg.so (right version, i suppose > 2.6), i searched for equivalent chromium version, in my case:
Chrome/55.0.2883.75
The most close chromium-codec-extra is:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263_amd64.deb

I extracted libffmpeg.so and copied it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera



Now, the codec is detected.

Thanks phenest,

[bester69]

A more properly solution:
http://forums.opera.com/discussion/comm ... t_15258789

When you want an easy solution. I'm building ffmpeg.so packages for archlinux for the different opera flavours. Since these are statically linked they should be usable on any linux distribution.

The packages can be found at http://repo.herecura.eu/pool/

You can browse the packagelist where you should be able to find:

opera-ffmpeg-codecs-* opera-beta-ffmpeg-codecs-* opera-developer-ffmpeg-codecs-*

Most of the time the versions are the matching versions where the opera branch was based on. For developer the versions might divert a bit due to issues in the chromium source.

I tested, it works!