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Fix Opera Linux libffmpeg & WidevineCdm

  • Fixes Opera html5 media content including DRM-protected one.
  • This script must be executed all times opera fails on showing html5 media content.
  • On Debian-based, RedHat-based and Arch-based distributions it could be started automatically after Opera each update or reinstall.
  • Works only with native versions of Opera. Won't work with flatpak/snap releses.
  • May not work with opera-beta and opera-develper.

Requirements

  1. curl (Is needed for downloading the ffmpeg lib and widevine)

    unzip (Is needed for unpacking the downloaded file)

    git (Is needed for fetching this script)

    jq (Is needed for parsing JSON from github)

    For Debian-based systems: sudo apt install curl unzip git jq

    For Arch-based systems: sudo pacman -S curl unzip git jq

    For RedHat-based systems: sudo dnf install curl unzip git jq

  2. (Optional) python3-dnf-plugin-post-transaction-actions (Is needed for autoupdate in RedHat-based systems) dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-post-transaction-actions

Usage

  1. Clone this repo

    git clone https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine.git

  2. Go to the repo root folder

    cd ./fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

  3. (Optional) Run script. And if it works well go to next step.

    sudo ./scripts/fix-opera.sh

  4. Run install script and answer few questions.

    sudo ./install.sh

How to uninstall

  1. Clone this repo

    cd /tmp && git clone https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine.git

  2. Go to the repo root folder

    cd /tmp/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

  3. Make uninstall.sh executable

    chmod +x uninstall.sh

  4. Run uninstallation script. And if it works well go to next step.

    sudo ./uninstall.sh

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This script fixes Opera for Linux, allowing it play videos including DRM-protected ones.

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