H.264 & AAC update failure [bug]
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Hey everyone. New here, and still kind of new to Vivaldi. I'm working on Raspbian Buster on a Raspberry Pi 4b 8G Just one problem though. Every time I open a new browser with Vivaldi (when I close the browser and reopen it) I am greeted by the speed dial page as well as this popup:
When I click on the info link it provides nothing but a test link for a flash image or whatever and it tells me that it could be a problem with Widevine. 
There is no solution that worked for me on that link (at the very least there was nothing that I can use as a possible solution to this problem). I then tried to go to the Vivaldi components page to ensure that Widevine was up to date but when I clicked on "check for update" nothing happened, and nothing changed. my next step was to try to manually update ffmpeg & widevine through the terminal via: 'sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg' & '/opt/vivaldi/update-widevine'. but to my dismay, those solutions did not work either. I then found and tried this: 
(on this article: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/42273/solved-html5-codecs-again) this solution also failed. 
. I have no scripting knowledge so as far as any scripts that I might have to edit/add or remove & I get confused really easily - so I chose not to mess with anything scripting wise. There is a Vivaldi discord where I initially asked for support (https://discord.com/invite/cs6bTDU), but I was directed to go here and ask instead. So here I am on the forums reporting this bug to the community in hopes that there is somebody out there who knows a step-by-step solution towards getting this resolved or if Ruari himself can find a solution and resolve it in a future update. If you have read up to this point - I commend you and thank you for your time. -
The bug didn't occur for me until I changed from RPiOS x32 to x64 on the same machine (different SD). Vivaldi on an x32 SD continues to work properly.
Which OS are you running?
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The popup opens on startup for me too. Not on Raspberry Pi, but on the Asahi Linux alpha release (still ARM64 though).
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@Thescorb0
Hi, do you have update-ffmpeg and update-widewine in your /opt/vivaldi* directory?
For widewine you can open vivaldi://components and try to update from there. I guess ffmpeg is updated with it, too.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in H.264 & AAC update failure [bug]:
do you have update-ffmpeg and update-widewine in your /opt/vivaldi* directory?
I didn't actually have a /opt/vivaldi direrectory. I made one just in case it fixes the problem, but as expected it doesn't because it's empty.
For widewine you can open vivaldi://components and try to update from there. I guess ffmpeg is updated with it, too.
I went to vivaldi://components and clicked "Check for update" under the only thing with Widevine in its name ("Widevine Content Decryption Module - Version: 0.0.0.0", Status - Up-to-date). All that did was change "Up-to-date" to say "Component not updated".
