Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.
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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.
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@topquark You & I are not quite talking about the same thing here. Of course any piece of software, any OS, anything in Life The Universe & Everything [So Long & Thanks For The Fish] should be perfect & easy, trouble-free & straightforward. Meanwhile, back in the Real World, people have a choice. In the face of unpleasant realities that Things Are Not Perfect, we can stamp our feet, hold our breath til blue, have fits of pique, & rail against [to come back to specifics here now] the Vivaldi Devs for so cruelly crushing all our hopes & dreams.
Conversely, the slightly less histrionic, more pragmatic of us can seek workarounds based on our own initiatives and/or existing documented solutions of others before us. In the context of the forum, i am perpetually gobsmacked that so many users seem intrinsically allergic to the Search function. I opine that if only people would search first, a large volume of the mega-repetitive posts enquiring [or often moaning / raging] about "why can't i play videos in Vivaldi?" would never have needed to be written. In my case, videos are fine not coz i'm some Linux genius [i am very very far from that], nor that i'm special [am definitely not], but simply coz [1] i know how to do research, [2] i can read, [3] on a good day i can even follow & apply instructions... monkey see, monkey do. Ie, the Forum already has all the answers, without needing endless new repetition. Given i am ordinary, there's no justifiable reason for other ordinary users not to also be able to manage this.
PS: As to your:
People just want to install it and it should run without the need to scour countless of messages to get the solution
...what are you going to do then? Offer to pay Vivaldi so they can pay for the necessary codecs? There are brutal commercial realities here; the absence of pre-shipped codecs is not coz the Vivaldi Devs hate us & wish to make our lives not worth living, y'know?
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@steffie said in Video playback problems, troubleshooting and solutions on Linux.:
PS: As to your:
People just want to install it and it should run without the need to scour countless of messages to get the solution
...what are you going to do then? Offer to pay Vivaldi so they can pay for the necessary codecs? There are brutal commercial realities here; the absence of pre-shipped codecs is not coz the Vivaldi Devs hate us & wish to make our lives not worth living, y'know?
The only simple solution on OSS systems like Linux is, to deliver a Program also as OSS. If this is the case, the maintainer of the distro or package deliverer are responsible to integrate all well! Due to the fact, that Vivaldi isn't OSS, you are responsible to integrate the Codecs against existing distro dependencies.
Normally I install my distro including the needed codecs (mainly ffmpeg), from remote private sources, so private repositories are not effekted from IP/licence topics (private use). The problem is, that chromium and related browers are not able to use ffmpeg directly. You need "chromium-ffmpeg-extra" which sometimes conflicts with versions from other chromium based browsers, so you can only install one in normal case.
Possible easy soution from my point of view, is to integrate this package directly in vivaldi and use than the preinstalled ffmpeg (which need to marked as required in the package).
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Awesome. Vimeo and Twitter videos wouldn't play in Vivaldi Snapshot on Manjaro Linux, but these ffmpeg codecs fixed the problem. I did encounter this error: 'ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!', but found a solution here: https://superuser.com/questions/1210758/error-one-or-more-pgp-signatures-could-not-be-verified-arch-linux#1210759
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The problem IS Vivaldi's. None of the workarounds I have been trying for days fixes it. The Vivaldi developers should include a working file. This is not too much to ask, especially months after the problem became known.
If I rename all Vivaldi directories and reinstall to start fresh, it doesn't play HTML5 H.264 video. Therefore my settings are not a problem.
Vivaldi comes with a libffmpeg.so file in /opt/vivaldi/lib, and this is the file it actually uses. Installing or removing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra makes no difference, and replacing Vivaldi's libffmpeg.so with the Chromium codec or any other I can find is even worse -- the standard video test page goes black with a dead bird, rather than merely failing to show the H.264 video. Therefore the problem does not lie with files from other packages. The problem is internal to the package Vivaldi provides.
Vivaldi for Linux comes with a broken file. Period. I'm tired of trying to fix this.
As for other codecs that Vivaldi can't ship with, PLEASE include links on the download page -- they don't necessarily come with our distribution, and it's hard to hunt down the right one, if there is a right one.
I can be patient. Thanks for making the best browser out there.
