Opera-ffmpeg-codecs — Why is the file size so large?

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Hello. I wanted to install the opera-ffmpeg-codecs package. However, when I started installing it via Pacman, I noticed that the Internet traffic was too high. I feel like the file is extremely heavy.
I downloaded the package from github
https://aur.archlinux.org/opera-ffmpeg-codecs.git
I found a link to a file there:
.SRCINFO > source = https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-official/chromium-121.0.6167.140.tar.xz

I tried to download this file
wget https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-official/chromium-121.0.6167.140.tar.xz

And I discovered that its size is 3.1 GB.

Is this normal?
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opera and opera-ffmpeg-codecs were recently dropped from the Arch repos to the AUR. Both are built from source, have large source archives and may take hours to build.

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Tell me what to do in this case? Just wait?
And what is the reason for the removal?

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In my first message I wrote how I acted and where I got the files from.
Opera support advised me to simply copy the file from the installed version of Chromium.

Unfortunately, Opera dem and rpm doesn’t support H.264/MP4 codec natively. We recommend using snap to avoid such problems with codecs.

If you want to fix it manually, please try the following:

  1. Download Chromium, if you don’t have it installed yet.
  2. Now run the following command in Linux Shell: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/lib_extra/libffmpeg.so.32 (this command links the Chromium libffmpeg.so file to Opera).
  3. Restart Opera and visit this site to check that HTML 5 playback works correctly.

And then I found information too.

It looks like only one file is needed, but I already have it in this folder. Only here are some YouTube videos that previously played normally, now they don’t work

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Hello? I think we just went over this yesterday. :wink:

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Forgive me, but I’m not only writing on the forum now, looking for how to fix this bug with the video, but I’m also doing other things, so I don’t have time to arrange everything beautifully.

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If you have time to post on our forum, then you also have time to post properly. Good grief, it’s just highlighting text and clicking a button. :stuck_out_tongue:

Please see:

What bug? What video? :thinking:

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cd /usr/lib/opera
sudo mv libffmpeg.so libffmpeg_BU.so
sudo cp /usr/lib/electron/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/opera

it helped me!

What does this have to do with offtopic, if I explained to you the situation that happened to me. and your thoughts about what is happening. You’re strange

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Where did you find those commands and why do you think it helped you? Do you even know what they do?

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Why? What does that have to do with anything in this topic?

You suspected wrong.

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