Opera in arch can't play some videos

Question

Problem: Opera in arch Linux can't play some youtube videos.

pacman -Q opera
opera 78.0.4093.184-1

uname -a 
Linux arch 5.13.13-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:14:36 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

Opera browser not like chrome that has own codecs, opera need some codecs to work well.

Solution for arch users:

sudo pacman -S opera-ffmpeg-codecs

Other distributions search on :

opera-ffmpeg-codecs 

on your package manager.