The following is a quick guide to get this working on various Linux distros. As a side note, if you have Chrome installed alongside Vivaldi, Netflix should also work after making these changes.
The following are steps for Vivaldi beta. If you are running the latest Vivaldi snapshot, please refer to the Vivaldi snapshot section under "Other distros".
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
You will now need to restart Vivaldi. You can then test support on this page.
If you want to use the latest beta, install vivaldi-beta and vivaldi-beta-ffmpeg-codecs.
If you want to use the latest snapshot, install vivaldi-snapshot and vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs.
Alternatively, you can also get both of these packages from from the unofficial [herecura] repo.
After installing from the AUR or the linked unofficial repository, will now need to restart Vivaldi. You can then test support on this page.
If your distro does not provide a package with a suitable lib, you can extract the required libs from one of these binary packages. There are steps below. However, the steps will need to be repeated (with new libs) every time we update our Chromium engine, otherwise video and audio may fail or worse, you will get frequent crashes!
Fetch one of these packages
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229_amd64.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/chromium-browser/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229_i386.deb
ar p chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564*.deb data.tar.xz | tar xJf - ./usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libffmpeg.so --strip 5
Note: ar is from the GNU binutils package.
Fetch one of these packages
wget http://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs-49.0.2623.91-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
wget http://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/i686/vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs-49.0.2623.91-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
tar xf vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs-49.0.2623*.pkg.tar.xz opt/vivaldi-snapshot/libffmpeg.so --strip 2
Issue the following as root (or prefaced with sudo):
install libffmpeg.so /opt/vivaldi-beta/libffmpeg.so
install libffmpeg.so /opt/vivaldi-snapshot/libffmpeg.so
You will now need to restart Vivaldi. You can then test support on this page.
If you don't want to use the file in the package provided by Ubuntu (or the herecura repo), you can compile your own.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install automake build-essential libtool pkg-config yasm zlib1g-dev
sudo dnf install autoconf automake gcc gcc-c++ libtool make nasm pkgconfig zlib-devel
zypper in -t pattern devel_basis
- autoconf
- automake
- gcc
- gcc-c++
- libtool
- make
- nasm (or yasm)
- pkg-config
- the zlib development support files
For Vivaldi beta, issue the following in a terminal:
CHRVER=48.0.2564.109
For Vivaldi snapshot, issue the following in a terminal:
CHRVER=49.0.2623.91
Now issue the following commands:
wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-official/chromium-$CHRVER.tar.xz
tar xf chromium-$CHRVER.tar.xz
cd chromium-$CHRVER
git clone --depth 1 https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
export PATH="$PATH:`pwd`/depot_tools"
touch chrome/test/data/webui/i18n_process_css_test.html
./build/gyp_chromium --depth . -Dcomponent=shared_library -Dffmpeg_branding=ChromeOS -Dclang=0
ninja -C out/Release ffmpeg
Note: On systems that don't use PulseAudio (e.g. Slackware), you should also include the define -Duse_pulseaudio=0.
Issue the following as root or prefaced with the sudo command:
install out/Release/lib/libffmpeg.so /opt/vivaldi-beta/libffmpeg.so
install out/Release/lib/libffmpeg.so /opt/vivaldi-snapshot/libffmpeg.so
You will now need to restart Vivaldi. You can then test support on this page.
If you repackage Vivaldi browser for your distro, you might want to consider making vivaldi-beta-ffmpeg-codecs or vivaldi-snapshot-ffmpeg-codecs packages containing a replacement ffmpeg library. It is suggested that you place this library in the directory /opt/vivaldi-beta/ or /opt/vivaldi-snapshot/ directories respectively.