All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint

canias

I switched from ubuntu to mint and now gifs, webms, embeded videos, etc don't work. youtube videos do work at random intervals and i don't know what triggers it. Other browsers work just fine but I like vivaldi.

In Ubuntu worked just fine though it's been a while since I updated the browser. I installed Debian/Ubuntu 2.5 version and I tried this: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/html5-proprietary-media-on-linux/

lamarca

Welcome to the forums and enjoy Vivaldi Browser
F1 gives access to the Vivaldi Help Knowledge Base

The test case bellow no longer is available. Can Vivaldi reproduce the test case bellow:

https://tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page

Did you start mind using the command line?

canias

I already tested that, only 2 and 3 reproduce, i also tried using the command line

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3671.3

@canias ok - you are missing codecs (all work for me on Mint 18.3).
This should have been identified when you ran from command line!?

Anyway try this script from @Gwen-Dragon

https://gwendragon.de/repo/linux/vivaldi/vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh

Edit: @Gwen-Dragon is here so see what she says first.

lamarca

@canias Thx. The OS has no support for HTML5/MP4.
The terminal should print the following message
No suitable library for HTML5 proprietary media (MP4[H.264/AAC]) was found

Can you post the output of [[ ls -lha ~/.local/lib ]] ?

canias

@lamarca said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

n you post the output of [[ ls -lha ~/.local/lib ]] ?

the output is :

total 12K
drwxrwxr-x 3 canias canias 4,0K Jun 7 16:35 .
drwx------ 4 canias canias 4,0K Jun 7 16:35 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 canias canias 4,0K Jun 7 19:04 vivaldi

@Gwen-Dragon said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

@canias I tested on Mint 19, its chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package does not provide the correct codec.
Teh super-duper official way:
Copy this line
curl https://launchpadlibrarian.net/414953672/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb | tail -c+1077 | tar JxC ~ --wildcards \*libffmpeg.so --xform 's,.*/,.local/lib/vivaldi/,'
Open program Terminal (shell)

Paste in shell

Hit Enter
And @TbGbe is right, my (inofficial, not approved by Vivaldi) script works nice.

@TbGbe said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

Anyway try this script from @Gwen-Dragon
https://gwendragon.de/repo/linux/vivaldi/vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh

Download https://gwendragon.de/repo/linux/vivaldi/vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh

Start Shell

To install codecs

for Stable

Run this command line:
bash ./vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh -u

Enter Y to allow install of fallback codecs

for Snapshot

Run this command line:
bash ./vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh -uS

Enter Y to allow install of fallback codecs

Then all HTML5 H.264 videos should work in Vivaldi.

I did intall the first codec I forgot to tell, the outup of: $ vivaldi is currently this:

[9451:9451:0607/190809.699747:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(368)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[9413:9432:0607/190809.707928:ERROR:browser_process_sub_thread.cc(221)] Waited 2 ms for network service
Opening in existing browser session.

I installed it and its still the same, does it have to be executed in a specific folder? i did it in my downloads folder

lamarca

@canias said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

the output is :

libffmpeg should be there, run @Gwen-Dragon script and pay close attention to the switches.

canias

@lamarca said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

@canias said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

the output is :

libffmpeg should be there, run @Gwen-Dragon script and pay close attention to the switches.

this its the output after running it after running it :

ERROR:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For vivaldi (2.5.1525.48) the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (74.0.3729.169) is not compatible!

Proposed working version for libffmpeg on vivaldi (2.5.1525.48) should be 73.0.3683.75

Let us know via a post in our forums, mentioning your distro and distro version:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/35/vivaldi-browser-for-linux

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you want to install the proposed fallback 73.0.3683.75? [y/N]: y

For vivaldi (2.5.1525.48) the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra (73.0.3683.75) is installed:

/opt/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
/opt/vivaldi/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-version.txt

Restart Vivaldi and test H.264/MP4 support via this page:

http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html

canias

it doesn't, only 2 and 3 play, still it's amazing you did this script, you must trully love vivaldi

canias

Did you try my older advice?

Yes, It was marked all along
I have a gtx970
the output is:
bash: vivaldi://gpu: No such file or directory

Did you try my older advice?
@Gwen-Dragon said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

Open Vivaldi Settings → Webpages
Activate Use of Hardware Acceleration
Restart Vivaldi

If that does not help there is a incompatibility of Vivaldi and GPU.
Try this:

Open in address field chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
Set to Activate
Restart Vivaldi

I didn't see this part, that did it!! ty very much

lamarca

@canias Glad your issue is solved ~~thus marking the topic as resolved.~~

lamarca

Hello there,

@KaosAD said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

So I uninstalled Vivaldi ......

It's an important detail.
Vivaldi has only two folders: the installation at /opt/vivaldi and second one which is created during the first run located at ~/.config/vivaldi
vivaldi://version will show the full path of the profile.

Those folder are not deleted, you have to manually delete them (see backup article) before installing again, otherwise Vivaldi might or not might inherit bad data from the previous install.

Edit: grammar

lamarca

@KaosAD There is a test to verify the integrity of your profile folder.
Here is, open the terminal and issue the following command

/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --user-data-dir="/tmp/VIV-TST" &

It's a temporary and isolated install (it won't mess up the system wide install). If you are not able to reproduce the problem, then the issue lies on your profile.

need4ctrl

@Gwen-Dragon said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

@canias I tested on Mint 19, its chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package does not provide the correct codec.
Teh super-duper official way:
Copy this line
curl https://launchpadlibrarian.net/414953672/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb | tail -c+1077 | tar JxC ~ --wildcards \*libffmpeg.so --xform 's,.*/,.local/lib/vivaldi/,'
Open program Terminal (shell)

Paste in shell

Hit Enter
And @TbGbe is right, my (inofficial, not approved by Vivaldi) script works nice.

@TbGbe said in All kinds of media not reproducing on Linux Mint:

Anyway try this script from @Gwen-Dragon
https://gwendragon.de/repo/linux/vivaldi/vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh

Download https://gwendragon.de/repo/linux/vivaldi/vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh

Start Shell

To install codecs

for Stable

Run this command line:
bash ./vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh -u

Enter Y to allow install of fallback codecs

for Snapshot

Run this command line:
bash ./vivaldi-libffmpeg-install.sh -uS

Enter Y to allow install of fallback codecs

Then all HTML5 H.264 videos should work in Vivaldi.

I had the exact same problem. Almost given up on Vivaldi.
You solved all my issues! Thank you so much