Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

anselm · 2016-12-11 23:06:28

I used Chrome for browsing, but support isn't continued for 32 bit machines. Then I tried Chromium, but it uses too much memory, and due to this always freezes: memory becomes full, and heavy swapping begins, PC becomes unresponsive for long minutes. Then I tried Firefox, it was better a bit, but unfortunately too slow. Opera 41 seems to be much faster, and memory consumption is also acceptable. Problem is it doesn't suppoert MP3 playback in HTML5 video or audio tag. I have two webpages which I use to listen online radios, and the streams all are in MP3 format... So I am unable to listen the radios with the new Opera browser, I have to start another browser just for listening radios.

I read somewhere that in older opera versions two years ago there was a way to swith on the MP3 support at opera://flags/#proprietary-media-types-playback

But unfortunately this doesn1t work now.

WorMzy · 2016-12-11 23:13:42

Did you install opera-ffmpeg-codecs?

anselm · 2016-12-12 06:11:03

Thx, I installed that package - after nearly 5 hours of compiling - , and now mp3 works with HTML5!

This new Opera 41 is very well done, fast and responsive, lower memory footprint than Chromium. Even Hangouts and Facebook is working properly, and faster than in Chromium. When I try to use Hangouts in Firefox (latest) my PC becomes so slow, can't be used for anything, so I always used the so called "basic HTML view" in GMail. Now in Opera 41 everything works. Maybe it utilizes the old Nvidia FX5200 card a bit better than Firefox.

Unfortunately youtube videos still makes a high demand: about 25% of the frames are dropped due to the high system load (according to the stats which is available by right clicking of the youtube video), and CPU is at 100% when playing, and I always plays youtube videos at 360p / SD resolution. But for example when I play a youtube video with VLC, it plays smoothly and CPU is at about 20%.

Last edited by anselm (2016-12-12 06:15:51)

WorMzy · 2016-12-12 11:50:56

Why are you compiling? The package is in the repos.

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dunek · 2016-12-20 19:25:09

opera-ffmpeg-codecs is not in the repos.

Last edited by dunek (2016-12-20 19:26:01)

WorMzy · 2016-12-20 20:25:17

Huh. My mistake. I think I was mislead by the opera package listing it as an optdepend -- usually packages in the repo don't have optdepends on non-repo packages, but I guess it's not a guaranteed thing, particularly if the optdepends aren't needed to compile the package that optionally depends on them.

Rasi · 2016-12-21 22:32:07

Actually optdepends in official repositories are always in repositories, iirc

Last edited by Rasi (2016-12-21 22:36:24)

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#1 2016-12-11 23:06:28

Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#2 2016-12-11 23:13:42

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#3 2016-12-12 06:11:03

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#4 2016-12-12 11:50:56

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#5 2016-12-20 19:25:09

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#6 2016-12-20 20:25:17

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

#7 2016-12-21 22:32:07

Re: Is there a way to enable MP3 support in the current Opera 41 ?

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