Fix Opera Linux libffmpeg & WidevineCdm

• Fixes Opera html5 media content including DRM-protected one.
• This script must be executed all times opera fails on showing html5 media content.
• On Debian-based, RedHat-based and Arch-based distributions it could be started automatically after Opera each update or reinstall.
• Works only with native versions of Opera. Won't work with flatpak/snap releses.
• May not work with opera-beta and opera-develper.

Requirements

1. wget (Is needed for downloading the ffmpeg lib and widevine)

   unzip (Is needed for unpacking the downloaded file)

   git (Is needed for fetching this script)

   For Debian-based systems: sudo apt install wget unzip git

   For Arch-based systems: sudo pacman -S wget unzip git

   For RedHat-based systems: sudo dnf install wget unzip git

2. (Optional) python3-dnf-plugin-post-transaction-actions (Is needed for autoupdate in RedHat-based systems) dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-post-transaction-actions

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) Run script. And if it works well go to next step.

   sudo ./scripts/fix-opera.sh

4. Run install script and answer few questions.

   sudo ./install.sh

How to uninstall

1. Clone this repo

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

2. Go to the repo root folder

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

3. Make uninstall.sh executable

   chmod +x uninstall.sh

4. Run uninstallation script. And if it works well go to next step.

   sudo ./uninstall.sh