Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.
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It worked! Thanks!
There was 1 problem that was easily fixed. When I first tried I got this error:
./vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh: line 211: ar: command not found
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
ERROR: Cant extract files from oxideqt-codecs-extra_1.21.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.debIT seems the 'ar' command isn't installed with the base OS. Installing the 'binutils' package fixed that.
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I installed 9.2.1. I dl'ed it from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/. I only dl'ed the file "debian-9.2.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso".
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Anyone else lost video playback in the latest-ish version (1.13.1008.40)? Nothing's working for me on YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook (haven't tried others), and in fact YT video pages crash to that black-page-with-dead-bird thing immediately after opening.
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@gwen-dragon said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
@abm0 You need the correct chrome-codecs package on Linux. https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-mp4-h-264aac-video-and-mp3-audio-support-under-linux/
Had that for a while now. There's no reason it would make things stop working between yesterday and today. There's also an extension crashing today that wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary yesterday, but I've already removed that one and restarted. Same behavior with video.
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@gwen-dragon said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
@abm0 I do not know why you use a old 1.13 Stable on Linux. For such old version you need a chrome codecs for Chromium 63.x. Depends what you can find for your Linux.
Hmm... my updates are set to install immediately if they're security related and show a list weekly for everything else, but when I think about it I very rarely see that list pop up. Maybe there's something dumb happening with this updater thing. Thanks for the hint!
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@abm0 said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
Anyone else lost video playback in the latest-ish version (1.13.1008.40)? Nothing's working for me on YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook (haven't tried others), and in fact YT video pages crash to that black-page-with-dead-bird thing immediately after opening.
Yes, earlier this week I lost playback on some sites. At the beginning of this thread there's a post with a link to Ruario's "update latest codecs" script. It was posted a long time ago but the script itself keep updated. I ran it and got my videos back.
I could give you this link here but, from my own experience, it's better to learn where to find it yourself. In a few months a new Chrome engine will break codecs again and script at the beginning of this topic is easier to find than some answer on page 10.
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I have Vivaldi 1.14.1077.45 (Stable channel) (64-bit) installed at my Debian 9. Which method should I use to get videos at udemy work? Can't there really be any out of box solutions? After all udemy works in Firefox and Brave without additional work to be done.
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I've just installed vivaldi on my manjaro system. My problem is that even though youtube videos play without problem facebook and other pages don't. Neither chrome nor firefox have any problems playing videos on those pages. Since this seems to be a problem isolated to vivaldi I doubt it has anything to do with my OS so what can be wrong? Also when trying to play videos on FB vivaldi blows the video (that doesn't play after that) to almost full screen instead of keeping the original size like the other browsers do.
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dont know if its related.
fresh install of mint, both scripts installed. No embedded you tube videos are working for me (cant even click on them)
actual youtube videos on youtube.com are all fine, and other videos playing fine.
just not embedded yt's (in latest snapshot)
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@gwen-dragon said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
For those having some problems with playack. Some experimental flags set can block playing videos in frames!
Please try this as a "fix":
- Open vivaldi://flags
- reset the flags
- restart Vivaldi
Is that proven to help? I had tried moving my whole .config/vivaldi-snapshot away, i.e., starting with default config, and the movies still didn't play in frames/embedded. I had to manually change (disable) #enable-site-per-process
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@gwen-dragon said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
It helps if users changed some flags like process isolation (which had to be set some months ago after the Spectre/Meltdown issue, when theer was no fix out, to get more security).
I had to manually change (disable) #enable-site-per-process
Thats why i told you to reset the flags.
I would assume that if I delete my config, I would start with the default config (of flags) that I would get if I reset the flags. That (deleting the config) I did, and embedded videos did not play. So a reset would not have helped either. Another user had reassured that he had not changed the respective setting, so it seems to be in the default config somehow?
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@gwen-dragon fwiw, the "meltdown issue" is completely unrelated
i had never at any point, ever, gone in and edited the #enable-site-per-process tag
something happened a couple of builds ago in snapshot that caused that tag to turn on.
i know 1 million percent i had never turned it on
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I tried the recommended Vivaldi://flags reset to default settings but the problem persists. Youtube plays OK but some videos embedded in websites won't play.
Linux Mint 18.3 Vivaldi 1.14 for Linux
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@llewellen said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
I tried the recommended Vivaldi://flags reset to default settings but the problem persists. Youtube plays OK but some videos embedded in websites won't play.
Linux Mint 18.3 Vivaldi 1.14 for Linux
Same here. Vimeo and Liveleak dont work.
Manjaro KDE Vivaldi 1.15.1147.36 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
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@topquark said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
Same here. Vimeo and Liveleak dont work.
Except that they do. I have just verified this with both my Snapshot 1.15.1147.32 & my Stable 1.15.1147.36, in each of which i just randomly picked a half a dozen videos to test-stream on both those sites. It all worked just fine.
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@steffie said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
Except that they do. I have just verified this with both my Snapshot 1.15.1147.32 & my Stable 1.15.1147.36, in each of which i just randomly picked a half a dozen videos to test-stream on both those sites. It all worked just fine.
I have a fresh install. Have you installed any other packages? ffmpeg-codecs? or anything else?
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@topquark said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
installed any other packages? ffmpeg-codecs? or anything else?
Yes, & if your question implies that you have not, then we [ie, you & me, not V; i'm just another ordinary user] now have a pretty strong idea of why you're having problems. There's oodles of threads in the V forum on this subject, going back a very long time.
Unfortunately for you, in as much as it's a temporary complication, we Manjaro Vivaldi users are experiencing a temporary glitch with the herecura repo ffmpeg version. Here's some links for your assistance. If these don't help you to get it working, post again & i shall try to step you through it.
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/186578
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/207986
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/after-update-of-glibc-error-message/45824
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/vivaldi-ffmeg-update-will-break-vivaldi/45801 -
@steffie said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
Here's some links for your assistance. If these don't help you to get it working, post again & i shall try to step you through it.
Thank you. I got it working. I'm not in herecura but had problem with AUR repo.
I installed vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs and copy libffmpeg.so that is somehow in /opt/vivaldi to /opt/vivaldi/snapshot/. I see you have done that also in your other post.
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@topquark said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
I got it working
It's good for you now? Excellent.
Generic remark to all other Nixers in this & other threads complaining about "Vivaldi will not play my xyz video site". The error/fault is not Vivaldi's, it is yours. This forum has bucketloads of threads on this repeat topic, such that any complainer needs only to Search the forum to find the solutions. Many people have posted this many times over the past few years -- V is not like some of the huge older richer browser companies who can afford the fees to incorporate the non-free proprietary codecs in their lousy browsers out of the box. Hence, for we V-ers, to be able to stream Netflix, we have to first install Widevine. To be able to use any site incorporating H.264/MP4, we have to install ffmpeg [variant depends on Snapshot or Stable]. After that, videos are a doddle in V. I have been using V since Feb 2015, & for the majority now of that time it provides ALL my browsing needs including ALL the streaming i do [which is a lot].
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@steffie said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
It's good for you now? Excellent.
Yes, it is working good now on all video sites I am visiting.
Generic remark to all other Nixers in this & other threads complaining about "Vivaldi will not play my xyz video site". The error/fault is not Vivaldi's, it is yours.
Sorry, I have to disagree. This thread will not exist if there isn't any problem. People just want to install it and it should run without the need to scour countless of messages to get the solution.
This forum has bucketloads of threads on this repeat topic, such that any complainer needs only to Search the forum to find the solutions. Many people have posted this many times over the past few years -- V is not like some of the huge older richer browser companies who can afford the fees to incorporate the non-free proprietary codecs in their lousy browsers out of the box. Hence, for we V-ers, to be able to stream Netflix, we have to first install Widevine. To be able to use any site incorporating H.264/MP4, we have to install ffmpeg [variant depends on Snapshot or Stable]. After that, videos are a doddle in V. I have been using V since Feb 2015, & for the majority now of that time it provides ALL my browsing needs including ALL the streaming i do [which is a lot].
Widevine or something else should be part of dependency. If not there should be a check for it and load it automatically. V should be as easy to load as Chrome or Firefox if the goal is to become a mainstream browser.
It's easy to see how easy everything is from the side of those who have been into Linux for the long time. The mass of people coming from the Windows side do not see it the same way.
I don't want to debate just stating my opinion and experience coming from Windows Vivaldi and moving to Linux Vivaldi.
