How to enable HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video and MP3 audio in Vivaldi and Opera in Linux
To enable HTML5 MP4 (H.264/AAC) video and MP3 audio in Vivaldi and Opera in Linux.
Download the latest version from this link: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/ eg: https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.47.0/0.47.0-linux-x64.zip
Or
Copy and save the below code in a bash file or simply download the attached file
#!/bin/sh
# Discourage Ubuntu users from using this script, since they can (and should) install oxideqt-codecs-extra directly
if [ -r /etc/os-release ] && grep -qx 'ID=ubuntu' /etc/os-release; then
echo "You should not use this script on Ubuntu, install oxideqt-codecs-extra via apt instead." >&2
read -p "Do you wish to continue anyway? [y/N]: " YN
case "$YN" in
[Yy]*) : ;;
[Nn]*) echo "Exiting." ; exit ;;
*) echo 'Answer not recognised, assuming "No". Exiting.'; exit ;;
esac
fi
# Make sure the user is not runing as superuser
if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then
echo 'Do not run this script as root or via sudo. Run it as your normal user.' >&2
exit 1
fi
available () {
command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1
}
# Make sure we have wget or curl
if available wget; then
SILENT_DL="wget -qO-"
LOUD_DL="wget"
elif available curl; then
SILENT_DL="curl -sL"
LOUD_DL="curl -O"
else
echo "Install Wget or cURL" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Set temp dir
TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
# Set staging dir
STAGINGDIR=$TMP/oxideqt-codecs-extra-staging
# Setup Arch
case $(uname -m) in
x86_64) ARCH=x86_64; DEB_ARCH=amd64 ;;
i?86) ARCH=i386; DEB_ARCH=i386 ;;
esac
# Work out the VERSION
UBUNTU_PACKAGE=$(${SILENT_DL} http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/oxide-qt/ | sed -rn "s/.*(oxideqt-codecs-extra_([0-9]+\.){2}[0-9]+-[0-9]ubuntu[0-9]\.([0-9]{2}\.){2}[0-9\.]*_$DEB_ARCH.deb).*/\1/p" | sort | tail -n 1)
VERSION=$(echo "${UBUNTU_PACKAGE}" | sed -rn "s/.*_(([0-9]+\.){2}[0-9]+)-.*/\1/p")
# Error out if $VERISON is unset, e.g. because previous command failed
if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
echo "Could not work out the latest version; exiting" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Don't start repackaging if the same version is already installed
if [ -r "$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt" ]; then
. "$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt"
if [ "$INSTALLED_VERSION" = "$VERSION" ]; then
echo "The latest oxideqt-codecs-extra ($VERSION) is already installed"
exit 0
fi
fi
# Now we could screw things up so exit on first error
set -e
# If the staging directory is already present from the past, clear it down
# and re-create it.
if [ -d "$STAGINGDIR" ]; then
rm -fr "$STAGINGDIR"
fi
mkdir "$STAGINGDIR"
cd "$STAGINGDIR"
# Now get the deb package
$LOUD_DL "http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/oxide-qt/${UBUNTU_PACKAGE}"
# Extract the contents of the oxideqt-codecs-extra package
if available bsdtar; then
DEB_EXTRACT_COMMAND='bsdtar xOf'
elif available ar; then
DEB_EXTRACT_COMMAND='ar p'
else
echo 'You must install BSD tar or GNU binutils to use this script.' >&2
exit 1
fi
$DEB_EXTRACT_COMMAND ${UBUNTU_PACKAGE} data.tar.xz | tar xJf - ./usr/lib/$ARCH-linux-gnu/oxide-qt/libffmpeg.so --strip 5
echo "INSTALLED_VERSION=$VERSION" > oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt
# Install the files
install -Dm644 libffmpeg.so "$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so"
install -Dm644 oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt "$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt"
# Tell the user we are done
cat <<EOF
The following files were installed onto your system:
$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt
Restart Vivaldi and test H.264/MP4 support via this page:
http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
EOF
Navigate or cd
to the downloaded file
chmod +x latest-proprietary-media.sh
./latest-proprietary-media.sh
This will download two files
$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
$HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/oxideqt-codecs-extra-version.txt
Restart Vivaldi and it will play all kinds of HTML5 videos.
Opera
For opera to play all the videos simply copy the libffmpeg.so
from $HOME/.local/lib/vivaldi/
and paste it here /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
And now opera will also play all kinds of html5 videos.
Source: https://gist.github.com/ruario/bec42d156d30affef655
On Arch Linux the location is /usr/lib/opera/lib_extra/
OR Just install opera-ffmpeg-codecs
sudo pacman -S opera-ffmpeg-codecs
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