Opera H.264 support (ffmpeg, streaming)

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Is there a way to enable this codec support for Opera?

I installed opera via nix-env. As far as I understand, it needs ffmpeg to be available, which I see here as well:

/nix/store/0df97z6x9l9ypznc9jd024zz9bn7qrgc-opera-68.0.3618.63/lib/libffmpeg.so

But if I go to html5test.com the support wont be available (hence, no youtube streams).
As well I can not install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg (or vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg, as how it is called now) since this conflicts with the .so file that I mentioned above.

Any idea?
Thanks a lot in advance!

3

I just tried Opera 68.0.3618.63, and Youtube works even though html5test.com says there’s no support for H264. It looks like ffmpeg is included:

❯ nix build -f default opera && find -L ./result | grep ffmpeg
./result/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json
./result/lib/libffmpeg.so
4

Yes, normal Youtube Videos work. It’s the streams that are not available.

5

Hi

After some years? Is there a workaround available? I found that Mixcloud is not working and must see, YT stream won’t work too. That makes Opera unuseable for me…

Any idea?

6

There seems to be an option in the opera package that allows you to include proprietary codecs from vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs, which includes H.264 support. To enable it, you need to override opera:

  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
    (opera.override { proprietaryCodecs = true; })
  ];

I’ve seen your other post and I tried the mixcloud stream you linked there to test and it plays fine, both video and audio.

7

You mean like this:

...
opera
vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs
(opera.override { proprietaryCodecs = true; })
flatpak

I’ve tried flatpaks version of opera with works, but makes trouble with keepassxc plugin…

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You don’t actually have to explicitly install vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs as that will be pulled in as a dependency for opera. Also, overriding opera will still install opera for you, it’s just that you’re including the proprietary codecs with it.

In essence, just remove these two lines:

...
- opera
- vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs
(opera.override { proprietaryCodecs = true; })
flatpak

I haven’t really tried the flatpaked opera, but as far as I know KeepassXC integration with flatpaked browsers isn’t very straightforward:

9

Wow, thats it. After removing the two lines mixcloud and yt live is working. Now flatpak is not needed.

Thanks for help…

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