Fix Opera Linux ffmpeg & WidevineCdm

• Fix Opera html5 media content
• It script must be execute all times opera will fails on showing html5 media content.
• Now it also fixes WidevineCdm support for DRM video. You can try it on Vevo youtube channel for example.

Requirements

1. wget (Is needed for downloading the ffmpeg lib and Chrome) sudo apt install wget

2. unzip, binutils (Is needed for unpacking the downloaded file) sudo apt install unzip binutils

Usage

1. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/Ld-Hagen/fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine.git

2. Go to the repo root folder

   cd ./fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine

3. (Optional) You may disable Widevine fix if one that comes with Opera works well for you.

   sudo sed -i '/FIX_WIDEVINE=/s/true/false/g' ./fix-opera.sh

4. Run script. And if it works well got ot next step.

   sudo ./fix-opera.sh

5. Create a .scripts folder on root's home

   sudo mkdir ~root/.scripts

6. Copy the script into the .scripts folder

   sudo cp ./fix-opera.sh ~root/.scripts

7. Choose one or both options

   • (Optional) Create an alias. And then you'll be able to start it by typing fix-opera command in terminal.

     echo "alias fix-opera='sudo ~root/.scripts/fix-opera.sh' # Opera fix HTML5 media" >> ~/.bashrc

     source ~/.bashrc

   • (Optional) Autostart after each opera upgrade (Debian-based distros)

     sudo cp ./99fix-opera ~root/.scripts

     sudo ln -s ~root/.scripts/99fix-opera /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

8. Delete the repo

   cd .. && rm -rf ./fix-opera-linux-ffmpeg-widevine