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Website such as https://coub.com doesn't work after opera update.

  • Version: 49.0.2725.56 - Opera is up to date
  • Update stream: Stable
  • System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity)

Running opera from console I found error.

opera MEDIA_ERROR_LOG_ENTRY {"error":"FFmpegDemuxer: open context failed"}

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Solution is to replace file libffmpeg.so in the opera directory with the working one.

New way

  1. Get ffmpeg
sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
  1. Replace opera file with our file
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/
  1. Restart Opera

And every time when Opera will be updated, run

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

Old way (but stable)

  1. Download latest release [version]-linux-x64.zip file from here (or try another release)

  2. Find opera directory using which

     user@host:~$ which opera
 /usr/bin/opera
 user@host:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/opera 
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 дек  9 01:04 /usr/bin/opera -> ../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/opera

  3. Extract file libffmpeg.so from the archive you downloaded.

  4. Move lib file to the opera directory sudo cp -f ~/Downloads/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/opera

  5. Restart Opera

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