How to get HTML5 video working in Vivaldi ?

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wichtounet · Post by **wichtounet** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 6:55 am

Hi,

I've installed the last version of Vivaldi (1.6.689.31_p1). Everything works fine except that I've not been able to watch videos on youtube. There is no support for H.264.

I've seen that it should be possible to get that support via Chromium, so I installed it, but nothing changed. Apparently, I should be able to copy the libffmpeg from chromium to vivaldi, but I haven't found any libffmpeg.so in chromium.

Can somebody tell me how to do it ?

Thanks

Baptiste

Post by **Juippisi** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 10:09 am

Ive used an ebuild that installs a pre-compiled libffmpeg.so from Arch Linux,

/usr/local/portage/www-plugins/vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs $ cat vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs-54.0.2840.100.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Id$

EAPI=5

DESCRIPTION="Additional proprietary codecs for Vivaldi web browser, stable release."
HOMEPAGE="http://www.vivaldi.net"
SRC_URI="http://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/${P}-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz"

LICENSE="LGPL2.1"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64"
IUSE=""

DEPEND="www-client/vivaldi"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

S=${WORKDIR}

src_unpack() { 
	unpack ${A}
}

src_install() { 
	cd ${S}
	mkdir -p ${D}/opt/vivaldi/
	cp ${S}/opt/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so ${D}/opt/vivaldi/libffmpeg.so
	# mkdir -p ${D}/opt/vivaldi-snapshot/lib/
	# rm ${D}/opt/vivaldi-snapshot/lib/libffmpeg.so
	# ln -s ${D}/opt/vivaldi-snapshot/libffmpeg.so ${D}/opt/vivaldi-snapshot/lib/libffmpeg.so
}

Then theres a different ebuild for vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs but if I recall correctly, your installed version should be stable. The directory structure is different with stable and -snapshot version.

I am not 100 % sure, but if you compile chromium with system-ffmpeg flag, it might not create libffmpeg.so. Just my thought, but Im not sure about this.

wichtounet · Post by **wichtounet** » Mon Jan 09, 2017 11:17 am

Thank you very much for your answer.

After installation of your ebuild, youtube/html5 indicates that I have support for h264, but videos still don't run (remains black). Is there another thing I have to do ?

Regarding chromimum, I have disabled system-ffmpeg thinking that this would create libffmpeg.so, but it does not seem to work that way.

Post by **Juippisi** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:26 am

Hmm

https://vivaldi.net/en-US/teamblog/199- ... -audio-fix

maybe this is the culprit? Download and install the latest vivaldi-stable

mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/www-client/vivaldi
cd /usr/local/portage/www-client/vivaldi
cp /usr/portage/www-client/vivaldi/vivaldi-1.6.689.46_p1.ebuild vivaldi-1.5.658.56_p1.ebuild
ebuild vivaldi-1.5.658.56_p1.ebuild manifest
emerge -1 vivaldi

Also, make sure youre using the STABLE channel. If you installed snapshot (>1.7) the directory for that Arch Linux libffmpeg.so is different.

wichtounet · Post by **wichtounet** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:30 am

Juippisi wrote:Also, make sure youre using the STABLE channel. If you installed snapshot (>1.7) the directory for that Arch Linux libffmpeg.so is different.

I had to update from 1.6.689.34_p1 to 1.6.689.46_p1 and now it works

Thanks a lot