Vivaldi Stable - YT video ok, but no playback on Rumble, BC, others?

bloodshot · 19 June 2023 13:41

Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
On RPI4’s
Latest update to vivaldi-stable breaks playback of video on Rumble and Bit Chute. Maybe others, don’t know.
Screen loads, seems to try, but doesn’t play.
With AUR, have the latest updates. Installed vivaldi-widevine by adding ‘aarch64’ to build files. Still no.

Attempt to install vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs-extra-bin via AUR fails upon download of build file. 404… ?
Not even sure I’m driving the right direction here.
Suggestions? These two RPI4’s are my HTPC clients…
edit
Seems there is no support yet for proprietary codecs on aarch64
Companion thread here → Video fails to play on Manjaro | Vivaldi Forum

Yochanan · 19 June 2023 15:47

Try running the following with Vivaldi closed:

sudo /opt/vivaldi/update-ffmpeg

https://gist.github.com/ruario/1d45cf3a8c403afe2f6ede2bdc8cdb35

README.md

# Manual steps to fetch and extract a suitable for proprietary media support on Vivaldi for arm.

## Intro

With Vivaldi 6.1 proprietary media (H.264 video and/or AAC audio) will not play out of the box. This is because we use a third party (chromium-patched) file to play such media files and no suitable file is currently offered for direct use.

However, assuming you have a distro with a new enough version of glibc (2.29 or above), which you can check by running `ldd --version`, you can extract a copy of the libffmpeg.so found within the Chromium snap package and use this with Vivaldi.

## Steps

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Interpreting from above, trying to extract from .snap with unsquashfs on a diffferent machine then c/p. Flying blind tho…

edit
found squashfs-tools for aarch64 is the equivalent of unsquashfs required above. No need to extract on a different machine. Just search for and install squashfs-tools.

Yochanan · 19 June 2023 17:59

Ah, wasn’t aware that didn’t work on ARM anymore. I can reproduce it on my PineBook Pro.

bloodshot · 19 June 2023 20:02

Should I watch for an update?

Yochanan · 19 June 2023 20:37

I don’t know what you would be watching for. We only package the upstream binary just as Arch does. We also ship it with Manjaro bookmarks as part of our partnership, but that’s the only difference.

system · 22 June 2023 10:37

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