Fixing Youtube livestreams for Opera on Ubuntu
daniel Tue, 12/01/2020 - 10:32am
This worked on Ubuntu 20.04.1 with Opera 72
Install the "Chromium Ffmpeg codecs" snap via the "Ubuntu Software" app
Then, on the command line, let's find the libffmpeg.so library that was installed by the chromium snap
$ locate libffmpeg.so
/opt/Postman/Postman-1605981456437-old/libffmpeg.so
/opt/Postman/app/libffmpeg.so
/opt/Postman.bak/app/libffmpeg.so
/snap/chromium/1399/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
/snap/chromium/1411/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
/usr/lib/slack/libffmpeg.so
We want the latest chromium one. Plug that path into the next step
$ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera; sudo mv libffmpeg.so libffmpeg.so.bak; sudo ln -s /snap/chromium/1411/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
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