This issue continues to resurface with each subsequent update of vivaldi stable.
All video stops working.

I take my stored libffmpeg.so (see above)
and overwrite the one that doesn't work...

cd Downloads sudo cp libffmpeg.so /opt/vivaldi/lib

I don't know why
On a Raspberry PI
It makes me cry...
🤨

I don't have ARM computers in my home, but I can tell you how I find codecs in x86 Linux.

I check the version of Vivaldi browser. Vivaldi is based on Chromium source code. You get something like Chromium qqq.www.eee

I search in Ubuntu or Debian repository Chromium 122.3534.544. If I found this version I check dependency file. In dependency file of Chromium I search for optional dependency something like "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra".

Then I search this specific version that is compatible with specific Chromium version, in Debian or Ubuntu repository. Then I unpack .deb package and copy files in my Linux system. But I believe it have to be in specific dictionary in other to work. If it's not in specific dictionary it won't work.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I have to admit I can't get the armv7 installations to show this fault now. Vivaldi 6.1 still gives me seg fault when starting. But if I install Vivaldi 5.8 or Chromium and run either first then I can install and run Vivaldi 6.1 and it does work correctly with drop-down menus. My arm64 installations are fine.

Slightly off-topic for this sub-forum I'm still seeing the drop-down issue with my amd64 installation. I tried the --use-gl switches you suggested and with egl the issue was intermittent. With desktop I didn't see a problem.

So I've now gone back to Vivaldi 5.8 which works well for me.

Cheers,
Steven

I've just found that if I install Vivaldi 5.5 and run it I can then install 6.1 and it doesn't crash and will work. But if I close X and start it again Vivaldi 6.1 crashes with the seg fault.

So my simple solution to this problem is to revert to Vivaldi 5.8 (the last ver 5). This also solves my problem with drop-down menus.

Cheers,
Steven

@OrangePiRob You missed that? 😉
@DoctorG said in Widevine not updating on ubuntu system:

Perhaps unofficial article at https://gist.github.com/ruario/1d45cf3a8c403afe2f6ede2bdc8cdb35 helps.

I give up, Back to Chromium amd Thunderbird until I find something better

I saw that & reinstalled em on arch. Got this response from mine:
Proprietary media codecs (111306) has been installed (PLEASE RESTART VIVALDI)
Haven't noticed if that fixed it or not.

I just downloaded the previous version & installed that over the new one with no problem on my chromebook.

https://vivaldi.com/download/archive/?platform=linux

Same process on arm64 tho...
No suitable FFMpeg libs to enable proprietary media are currently available

Maybe that's the problem. That sounds like it's not installed.

Rolled back again after that.

@nomadic They came up in the search. Thank you for the correct method! Solved!

I have the same problem with sorting bookmarks. Vivaldi will no longer allow me to move bookmarks manually. It decides where to put BMs. I went back to Firefox after screwing around with it for 2 hrs.

Fixed Side bar. Hit email tab on bottom/opened email. The bar was there hit settings/classic menu then view/checked show panel. Now I can delete email that is nagging. Failed to send error could be the web. Airline went down today, may be related failure. Unchecked load pinned tabs and lazy load That helped speed it up a little. Call this solved

@beyewol
Hi, I don´t have such a device but you can check "Default Permission" in vivaldi://settings/privacy/
or per tab with the padlock icon.
Is it possible to en/disable sound per application in Raspbian Linux?

Cheers, mib

@davidcoleman Thanks, I'll try that (just to find out if it works) when I'll get the chance again. As you can see above I figured out a way to make it work.

I can confirm this, after half a day of not being able to use my favourite browser i found this thread, thanks to OP i found the culprit. Was so happy to finally have my team's shared calendars in Vivaldi and then noticed a constant 100% load from Vivaldi (noticed bc my battery drained way faster than usual).

Tested with stable v5.4 and then also with snapshot v5.5, both have the same problem... as soon as the shared calendars are unticked here https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/syncselect (don't forget to refresh the calendars in vivaldi) CPU usage goes back to normal levels...

It's a real pity, hope this can get fixed soon @eggert

EDIT: also noticed, this is in a forum where it might not get enough attention, I'm on an M1 Macbook (which is of course ARM as well...), but this will affect a lot of people, maybe there is an issue in your internal bug-tracker already for this? an update would be appreciated.