Understanding video issues with Vivaldi for Linux snapshots
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@lamarca: No. The files in there can be used by Vivaldi stable as it needs a different version of the lib since it is based on an older Chromium
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@ruario Thx. I forgot about the Vivaldi stable.
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@ruario: Whenever a post goes live for a while you can't comment on vivaldi.com. You can comment if you go into the forums at vivaldi.net though.
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OK, is this method preferable to using the ~/.local/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so ?
Yesterday, I downloaded the Opera version as referenced in other comments and saved locally, and then changed my symlink in .local/vivaldi/ to point to that one.
Everything works now, but is there a better way?
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@cheekybuddha: Symlinking is not ideal IMHO particularly to a lib designed for Opera as our versions are not always in sync with theirs.
That said, I would keep
~/.local/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
for Vivaldi stable (it needs different version to snapshots) and place the snapshot's copy in the install directory. -
@lonm: Has been reported to the team who look after vivaldi.com. Thanks!
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This is more of a general question as a Linux noob. Is there a reason to copy libffmpeg.so as opposed to a symlink?
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@veraser said in Understanding video issues with Vivaldi for Linux snapshots:
@gwen-dragon how you and other linux-men
Grrrrr, i hate this casual assumption of dangly-bits.
- Gwen is a female name not a male name.
- Lilo is a female name not a male name [click her avatar!!].
- She clearly displays the female icon in her signature.
Vivaldi users & community members do not axiomatically have to be male, & indeed some of us are not.
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@veraser: Stable Ubuntu does not provide the lib directly yet. If we waited for Ubuntu then we would be waiting until Chromium 64 is released and you would get no Linux snapshots in the mean time. Given we would like to release very shortly after Chromium 64 this would basically mean that there were no snapshots for linux at all.
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@veraser: If you want something that is less likely to encounter such issues you should be running stable and not snapshot. On stable this is not a problem.
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@veraser: so 6 steps instead of 3 that you can simply copy and paste? Ok, if you think that is easier.
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@veraser: No Opera does not provide this lib either. They cannot for the same reasons that we cannot. What @Gwen-Dragon linked to was a third party package (not associated with Opera or Vivaldi) which provides this lib.
The lib in question is libffmpeg.so compiled with proprietary media. By Proprietary media I mean h.264 with AAC audio. Both of which codecs are patented. To ship such a lib you need some reason why the patents do not apply to you.
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@ugly: The symlink is not (yet) provided by any package within the distro repos. Hence it will not already be on your system. Where would the symlink point? The lib need only exist in one place, so why would you have a symlink and over complicate it?
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Hello,dev team.
This script fixed video playback on my machine.
Thanks for your hard work.
Linux Mint 18.3 kernel 4.13 Asrock Deskmini 110 Pentium G4560 -
@lonm: It's the need to understand those technical paths coupled with the lack of support for the stuff I need the most that made me give up on Linux.
And I'm the type that builds PC from the ground up and mess with register entries to make Windows behave the way I want. But it's too much of a hassle on Linux because I have to use the terminal more often than I am comfortable with!
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@veraser you have some guts insulting a moderator in here, let's see how much your account lasts.
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@masky: Thanks for the confirmation!
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@ian-coog No Ian, not guts at all [though i do suspect you were only being ironic]. Instead, cowardice & malice. I am relieved to see this creep gone. What a really horrible person.
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Hi,Dev team.
I'm using latest vivaldi-snapshot with Linux Mint 18.3.
I have a problem with drawing browser graphics.
this machine:
corei5-6500
ASUS H170 pro gaming
Palit GTX 750tiWhen I am using open source driver(Mint default),vivaidi graphics draws very slow.
Then I installed NVIDIA proprietary driver,It works well but virtual resolution(destription later) does not work.
I prefer to use open source.
I use Mint with virtual resolution (xrandr --output DVI-D-1 --panning 3840x2160 --scale 2x2)
Other program like firefox works perfect.Except vivaldi.By the way,on the another machine vivaldi works well.(with same HardDisk)
Another machine does not have discrete graphics.so I think it uses mint default open source driver.
It is,
AsRock deskmini 110
pentium G4560
Intel HD graphicsBest regards,
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@gwen-dragon: Yes,and I commented there before.Slowing down is not only youtube.
It occurs in every page.
I executed script which is described in that page.