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mrzwing

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Registered: 2015-03-07

Posts: 7

Browser won't play videos but directs to file

Hello

i will be blunt I'm having problems with video sites as soon as i click on the "play button" in this case it is "pornhub" (yes i look at porn big surprise) and it only re-direct me to the video link (www.site.comn/longstuff/video.mp4 ect.) and show me a video play bar but no video. i have installed Gstreamer, npapi-vlc even flashplugin though the security risk is there. not making it work. this is in Opera browser since it is my choice of flavor.
something is apparently missing or there is something buggy with opera.

any one has any idea?

/mrzwing - dude that likes porn

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,722

Re: Browser won't play videos but directs to file

How about with non-porn sites, like youtube?
How about with a browser such as firefox?

Can you wget a page with which you are fighting -- REDACT ALL SORDID DETAILS -- and post the remaining source here?

flashplugin on a porn site; what could possibly go wrong?

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mrzwing

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Registered: 2015-03-07

Posts: 7

Re: Browser won't play videos but directs to file

Well the pages works in chromium it's just opera that is stubborn odd enough is that you tube works fine.
so i can use chromium for sites with a similar database as PH though it is annoying needing to switch browsers though that is a 1:st world problem.

yepp i know porn sites are the pillar of honesty after all, what ever could go wrong.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,435

Re: Browser won't play videos but directs to file

That isn't really surprising in that case, since opera is closed source and doesn't come with all codecs backed in. Have you installed opera-ffmpeg-codecs?

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 590

Re: Browser won't play videos but directs to file

Made me curious. All you need is a little bash and friends.
You could do this several ways.

Quick Example:

#! /usr/bin/bash

agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv57.0)\
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0"

while :; do
    read -p "Enter video page url: " vid_page
    vid_num=$(echo "$vid_page" | cut -d '=' -f2)

    vid=$(curl -LsA "$agent" https://www.pornhub.com/embed/"$vid_num" | 
                grep "vcServerUrl" |
                grep -oP 'quality_480p\K[^,]+' | 
                cut -d '"' -f3 | 
                sed 's/\\//g')
    mpv "$vid"
    #mplayer "$vid"
done

Dumping a video to file from that should be obvious.
Read
man mpv
man mplayer