Solved [Solved] HTML5 codecs, again

lamarca

/opt/vivaldi and then /opt/vivaldi/lib. This had worked in the past, but not now. Still nothing.

Things have changed a bit last time you had to manage your Codecs.
You received all the necessary info to fix the issue from different people, and after 26 replies, issue is still present.
Please, read again the aforementioned article.

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 said in HTML5 codecs, again:
If that did not help find all libffmpeg.so files with:
sudo find / -name "libffmpeg*so*" | xargs ls -al
and post the findings here.

I just saw this post, thanks. I ran the command. I got a ton of "file missing" or permission denied, mostly pertaining to backup files on my old mx18 installation. Here is the part I think is relevant:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  13202248 Jun 13 22:02  /opt/slimjet/libffmpeg.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  13202248 Jun 13 22:02  /opt/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root  13202248 Jun 13 22:02  /opt/vivaldi/lib/libffmpeg.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        30 Jul 19  2018  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4 -> libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4.11.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     93544 Jul 19  2018  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4.11.0

paul1149

@lamarca said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 said in HTML5 codecs, again:

Things have changed a bit last time you had to manage your Codecs.
You received all the necessary info to fix the issue from different people, and after 26 replies, issue is still present.
Please, read again the aforementioned article.

I'm not sure what's going on, but when I just returned to the help article - which I have read and followed numerous times - I was greeted with "Success!" This was without restarting Vivaldi.

Unfortunately I have no idea what solved the problem. Probably using Slimjet's libffmpeg.so, which solved it in my previous mx installation.

The odd thing, though, is that the Vivaldi error message persists upon restart (see pic). Perhaps there is another codec missing? I doubt it. I am going to hide the message and consider the immediate problem solved, but the deeper problem of why it occurred at all yet unsolved.

2019-11-22 08.45.37 help.vivaldi.com d1538fccc634.png

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 No. Do not copy any libs from other browsers over vivaldi libs. That breaks you video decoding.
You should do a
sudo rm -fr /opt/vivaldi/ /var/opt/vivaldi/
sudo apt reinstall vivaldi-stable

Ok, I've done this now, and I'm back to Square One, with failure at the test page. And failure when following its instructions. The only difference is the V. error popup remains hidden, as I had instructed it to.

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 After installing Vivaldi it downloads the correct codec package from a Ubuntu repo and installs the needed libffmpeg.

I tested with Ubuntu 19, Mint 17,. Mint 19 and Debian 10 and got all distributions working video.

Ok then, thanks. I'm going to ask over at MX.

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 Do yuo get any error messages if you start vivaldi in a shell?
Please copy&paste them here.

Here's what I got:

$ vivaldi
'Proprietary media' support is not installed. Fix this by running:
    /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg
The Widevine CDM is not installed. Fix this by running:
    /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

I ran the widevine command, which led to:

4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip does not match the expected sha256sum; aborting

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 I could fetch the widevine with my Debian 10.

Please retry sudo -x /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine (may be the download was broken) and copy&paste the output here.

//EDIT: Meanwhile i gonna test the MX 18.3 ISO and check if Vivaldi installation fails.

sudo -x /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

yielded:

$ sudo -x /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine
sudo: invalid option -- 'x'
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user]
            [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-r role] [-t type] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-r role] [-t type] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...

As I recall, I had similar problems with the MX 18 series, but I solved them using the Slimjet codec. I was on mx18 for over a year and was unaware of any negative consequences to using it.

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon , ok, here's the output:

$ sudo bash -x /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine
[sudo] password for paul: 
+ WIDEVINE_VERSION=4.10.1440.18
+ case "amd64" in
+ WIDEVINE_ZIP_ARCH=x64
+ WIDEVINE_ZIP_SUM=768ffe64a8efca991fce37d4cf35eb15b1cf2fdb2fa4773278a1bfce1e620046
+ WIDEVINE_LIBRARY=0,3539397,_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
+ WIDEVINE_MANIFEST=3539398,237,manifest.json
+ WIDEVINE_LICENSE=3539635,520,LICENSE.txt
+ '[' x = x--system ']'
+ '[' x = x--user ']'
+ WIDEVINE_INSTALL_DIR=/var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
+ '[' root '!=' root ']'
+ WIDEVINE_PKG=4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
+ VIVALDI_INSTALL_DIR=/opt/vivaldi
+ '[' x = x--undo ']'
+ available sha256sum
+ command -v sha256sum
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so -a -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/manifest.json ']'
+ available wget
+ command -v wget
+ DOWNLOAD='wget -q -T3'
+ cleanup_files
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/manifest.json ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/LICENSE.txt ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/../libwidevinecdm.so ']'
+ '[' -d /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm ']'
+ rm -f /opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
+ ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm /opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
++ dirname _platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so
+ mkdir -p /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64
+ cd /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
+ wget -q -T3 https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
+ :
+ sha256sum -c
+ echo '768ffe64a8efca991fce37d4cf35eb15b1cf2fdb2fa4773278a1bfce1e620046  4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip'
+ echo '4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip does not match the expected sha256sum; aborting'
4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip does not match the expected sha256sum; aborting
+ cd -
+ cleanup_files
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/_platform_specific/linux_x64/libwidevinecdm.so ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/manifest.json ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/LICENSE.txt ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip ']'
+ for WIDEVINE_FILE in "${WIDEVINE_LIBRARY##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_MANIFEST##*,}" "${WIDEVINE_LICENSE##*,}" "$WIDEVINE_PKG" ../libwidevinecdm.so
+ '[' -e /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm/../libwidevinecdm.so ']'
+ '[' -d /var/opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm ']'
+ find /var/opt/vivaldi -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir '{}' ';'
+ rm -f /opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
+ ln -fs /opt/google/chrome/WidevineCdm /opt/vivaldi/WidevineCdm
+ exit 1
paul@mx19:~

Sorry, don't know what syslog is.

Ruarí

@paul1149

Issue the following and then rerun the script

sudo sed -i '/^  DOWNLOAD/s/3/10/' /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

paul1149

Thanks, @Gwen-Dragon . I also got interesting feedback over at MX that might bear on the problem. Knowledgeable guy there had initial install problems, as did I, but solved them and his install codecs are good. I might need to retrace his steps.

paul1149

@ruario said in HTML5 codecs, again:

sudo sed -i '/^ DOWNLOAD/s/3/10/' /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

paul@mx19:~
$ sudo sed -i '/^ DOWNLOAD/s/3/10/' /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine
[sudo] password for paul: 
paul@mx19:~
$ sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine
4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip does not match the expected sha256sum; aborting
paul@mx19:~

Could you take a look at https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=54266&p=542038#p542038 and see if that makes any sense? I think there's a flaw in the installation somehow.

Ruarí

@paul1149 I read it, that is a work around but a bad one and will only fix it until you next upgrade. Better to fix it properly

paul1149

@ruario said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@paul1149 I read it, that is a work around but a bad one and will only fix it until you next upgrade. Better to fix it properly

Ok. Thanks for taking a look. Now to figure out how to do this right...

Ruarí

Can you try fetching manually via wget. I want to see if it works on your system or is failing because of something that is missing (e.g. proxy configuration)

wget -O /tmp/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip

If you get no errors from wget, then try issuing the following in the same terminal

sha256sum /tmp/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip

and let me know what that command reports.

EDIT: Simplified the commands to a couple of one-liners

paul1149

@ruario No errors that I can see:

paul@mx19:~
$ cd ~/Downloads
paul@mx19:~/Downloads
$ wget https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
--2019-11-22 11:09:46--  https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 172.217.12.174, 2607:f8b0:4006:81a::200e
Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|172.217.12.174|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3540154 (3.4M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip’

4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.z 100%[=================================>]   3.38M  9.15MB/s    in 0.4s    

2019-11-22 11:09:52 (9.15 MB/s) - ‘4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip’ saved [3540154/3540154]

paul@mx19:~/Downloads
$ sha256sum 4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
768ffe64a8efca991fce37d4cf35eb15b1cf2fdb2fa4773278a1bfce1e620046  4.10.1440.18-linux-x64.zip
paul@mx19:~/Downloads

Ruarí

Ok, let's remove the entire timeout from the script, like so

sudo sed -i '/^  DOWNLOAD/s/ -T[0-9]\+//' /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

Then re-run it

sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine

paul1149

@ruario You nailed that one! But I then retried ffmpeg, and same problem there.

$ sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-widevine
Widevine (4.10.1440.18) installed successfully (PLEASE RESTART VIVALDI)

However, support for 'proprietary media' is not installed. Fix this by running:
    /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg

paul@mx19:~
$ /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg
You may need to be root (or rerun this command with sudo)
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/opt/vivaldi/media-codecs-78.0.3904.70’: Permission denied
paul@mx19:~
$ sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg
xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
The extracted libffmpeg.so does not match the expected sha256sum; aborting

Ruarí

Ok, same fix then

sudo sed -i '/^  DOWNLOAD/s/ -T[0-9]\+//' /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg

sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg

EDIT: For anyone else who has this issue, the following should work if for snapshot and stable. It will remove the timeout from both scripts (it assumes bash). Clearly the timeout is too short for many people's networks.

sudo sed -i '/^  DOWNLOAD/s/ \(-T\|--connect-timeout \)[0-9]\+//' /opt/vivaldi*/update-{widevine,ffmpeg}

paul1149

@ruario Dude, you nailed it. Thanks!

Two questions then. How do I remediate my friend's machine with the same problem? I guess I go through these same steps.

Second, is there a way to prevent this problem from happening in new installs?

There's also the issue of why this apparently happens only on MX and not other Linux distros.

Ruarí

@paul1149 said in HTML5 codecs, again:

@ruario Dude, you nailed it. Thanks!

Two questions then. How do I remediate my friend's machine with the same problem? I guess I go through these same steps.

sudo sed -i '/^  DOWNLOAD/s/ \(-T\|--connect-timeout \)[0-9]\+//' /opt/vivaldi*/update-{widevine,ffmpeg}

Second, is there a way to prevent this problem from happening in new installs?

Yes… I need to fix it in the source and ship an updated Vivaldi that includes the fix.

There's also the issue of why this apparently happens only on MX and not other Linux distros.

It is almost certainly nothing to do with MX and more to do with you having a slower connection than I predicted when I added a short 3 second timeout.

EDIT: We have had other reports that were likely this from several distros