No Facebook video playback
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Seem to have an issue with video playback on Facebook. I've made sure I do in fact have pepper flash installed via Adobe's website, and other websites play (e.g., YouTube), though they may just be using HTML5.
I seem to recall this being an issue a long time ago, also (several months ago). Has anyone else had this problem? I just updated to 1.6.689.32, but it was happening before the upgrade as well.
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Which Linux distro?
Does flash show invivaldi://plugins
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What version?
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I have the same problem, my distro is Antergos 64bits
Adobe Flash Player - VersiĂ³n: 24.0.0.186
Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0 -
Flash is enabled and does show in vivaldi://plugins, hardware acceleration is also indeed enabled.
Oddly enough, I'm running Arch Linux, which Antergos is based on -- so maybe something related specifically to this family of distros?
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@CantankRus said in No Facebook video playback:
Which Linux distro?
Does flash show invivaldi://plugins
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What version?
You know, I thought about changing the path to the pepper flash-that Vivaldi is using, just to see, but didn't want to go as far as editing the script callling the executable. I had to do so on Mint a few months ago, so maybe it'll help here too. You can see in my above post that Vivaldi is pointed to a pepper-flash that resides in my home folder, vs the system-wide pepper-flash, I wonder if that'll make a difference. I'll try changing that.
EDIT: So I checked in Chrome (on which FB videos work) and pepper-flash is pointed to that same location
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@Gwen-Dragon Well, I'll try and then comment if it worked
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I tried to install the vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs. and I get the following error
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Oddly enough, GIFs on Facebook do not work either 0_o. So maybe not a problem specific to Flash? To answer your question, yes ensured the proper windevine & codecs were installed.
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Gifs on Facebook are not gifs, but mp4 videos. Gifs nowadays are getting rare, only few sites still use pure gifs.
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I mistakenly said earlier I'd I had all the proper codecs installed, after installing everything necessary (followed Gwen-Dragon's github link), everything works flawlessly.
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@ilkal said in No Facebook video playback:
@t0ken407 I've tried the proposed solution but it still doesn't work. I'm using Debian Testing, so it's definitely not an Arch-specific problem.
Do you see Flash when doing vivaldi;//plugins on Debian?
//Christian - Vivaldi Technologies
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@Terc said in No Facebook video playback:
I used this script to install pepperflash. I had to change the installation script to include my distro (shouldn't be a problem since it is based on ubuntu 16.04).
You don't have H.264 support, possibly because that was the old version of the script.
Try https://gist.github.com/ruario/bec42d156d30affef655(from pinned thread https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12973/video-playback-problems-troubleshooting-and-solutions-on-linux )
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@Terc said in No Facebook video playback:
The package chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra is installed and all html5 videos worked before installing the pepperflash plugin. I was able to play all the gifv's and generally had no noticable problems.
You mention that you have chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra but have you ever attempted to manually get h264 videos working before via copying libs around?
I am concerned that you may have broken the install in a way that will not resolve itself via a simple upgrade. Could you give me the results of the following command?
find /opt/vivaldi* -name 'libffmpeg.so'
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@ilkal read the other distros section of the updated guide
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@Emezeta you can get these packages from from the unofficial [herecura] repo, then you do not need to compile anything. That repo is maintained by @BlackIkeEagle who is the maintainer of these packages on the AUR and a Vivaldi soprano (volunteer)
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@GrouchyGaijin That is not the same issue and is something that will also happen in Chrom(e|ium) depending on your video card and if anything is overlaying the browser UI.
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@Terc said in No Facebook video playback:
@ruario I now used the latest version of the script (apparently there were quite some differences) and am going to do some testing now.
which script did you use? please link to it?
[Edit]
Apparently I have now gained H.264 playback. Thank you.
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@Terc That script is for Flash video. The reports here are generally with HTML5 video, so it is a completely different issue
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After investigating a little more it would seem that Ubuntu has pulled an OpenSUSE and moved the directory for libffmpeg.so, which provides support for H.264 HTML5 video.
On Ubuntu 14.04, the latest chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is 53.0.2785.143 and it stores the libffmpeg.so in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs. However, on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 the latest chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is 55.0.2883.87, which stores libffmpeg.so in /usr/lib/chromium-browser.
Thus, our startup script does not find it as we only look in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs.
We will need to update Vivaldi stable to look in both locations.
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@ruario said in No Facebook video playback:
After investigating a little more it would seem that Ubuntu has pulled an OpenSUSE and moved the directory for libffmpeg.so, which provides support for H.264 HTML5 video.
On Ubuntu 14.04, the latest chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is 53.0.2785.143 and it stores the libffmpeg.so in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs. However, on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 the latest chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package is 55.0.2883.87, which stores libffmpeg.so in /usr/lib/chromium-browser.
Thus, our startup script does not find it as we only look in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs.
We will need to update Vivaldi stable to look in both locations.
Thanks for that info @ruario,
Wondered why a site I frequent started telling me the video wasn't encoded for my device.
Created the directory/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/
and linked back to/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so
and video working again.sudo mkdir /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so