Opera-stable don't play video at YouTube (sound is present)

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opera-stable don’t play video at YouTube (sound is present)

opera-stable don’t play video (sound is present) while
“Use graphics acceleration when available = ON” at preferences
show just white rectangle

If “Use graphics acceleration when available = OFF” everything’s OK.

for reference

cat /etc/os-release 
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="39 (Cinnamon)"

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$ sudo dnf list installed  opera*
opera-stable.x86_64                                        109.0.5097.38-0                                        @rpm.opera.com_rpm

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$ sudo dnf list installed  gstreamer*
gstreamer1.i686                                                      1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1.x86_64                                                    1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugin-libav.x86_64                                       1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugin-openh264.x86_64                                    1.22.7-1.fc39                           @fedora-cisco-openh264 
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.x86_64                                   1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-extras.x86_64                            1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-fluidsynth.x86_64                        1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-libs.x86_64                              1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-opencv.x86_64                            1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-wildmidi.x86_64                          1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-zbar.x86_64                              1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld.x86_64                              1:1.22.9-1.fc39                         @rpmfusion-free-updates
gstreamer1-plugins-base.i686                                         1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-base.x86_64                                       1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good.i686                                         1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good.x86_64                                       1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good-extras.x86_64                                1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk.x86_64                                   1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt.x86_64                                    1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt6.x86_64                                   1.22.9-3.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free.x86_64                                  1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates               
gstreamer1-vaapi.x86_64                                              1.22.9-1.fc39                           @updates

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$ sudo dnf list installed  intel*
intel-audio-firmware.noarch                                20240312-1.fc39                                @updates                  
intel-gmmlib.x86_64                                        22.3.13-1.fc39                                 @updates                  
intel-gpu-firmware.noarch                                  20240312-1.fc39                                @updates                  
intel-media-driver.x86_64                                  23.4.3-1.fc39                                  @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
intel-mediasdk.x86_64                                      23.2.2-2.fc39                                  @fedora

At the same time, the same opera at LXQT 39 works fine.

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After upgrade to
opera-stable-109.0.5097.45-0.x86_64

everythings work

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I appreciate the initial OP question is resolved, but I too had an issue having just installed the latest Opera browser from their RPM repo (clean install, never had the browser before). I do not have chromium-browser installed so it had issues with ffmpeg.

Looking at /usr/lib64/opera/resources/ffmpeg_preload_config.json there is reference to looking for ffmpeg.so file at /usr/lib/chromium-browser/ directory which didn’t exist for me.

Steps I took to fix things:

  1. sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/chromium-browser
  2. Downloaded the latest release: Releases · nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt · GitHub
  3. Uncompressed the download then moved the libffmpeg.so which was unpacked into the dir I made in step 1.
  4. Reload the browser and try youtube again.
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Thanx

but I have known about nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt for a very long time
and regularly download its new versions