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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Author: Marco Carletti | |
| # Date: May 2022 | |
| # Version: 0.2.0 | |
| # Thanks to everyone for comments, suggestions, fixes and testings! | |
| # Tested on | |
| # --------- | |
| # | |
| # Ubuntu 18.04 | |
| # | |
| # v0.1.0 | |
| # 62.0.3331.116 | |
| # 63.0.3368.66 | |
| # | |
| # Ubuntu 20.04 | |
| # | |
| # v0.1.0 | |
| # 70.0.3728.95 | |
| # 73.0.3856.284 | |
| # 74.0.3911.107 | |
| # 74.0.3911.232 | |
| # | |
| # v0.2.0 | |
| # 87.0.4390.25 | |
| # Release notes | |
| # ------------- | |
| # | |
| # v0.2.0 Smarter use of curl options to fix failing permalink. Special thanks to `dotarr` for the fix! | |
| # Last update: May 18, 2022 | |
| # | |
| # v0.1.0 It is basically a cleaned version of what you can find in this post from Opera forum: | |
| # https://forums.opera.com/topic/34659/opera-linux-browser-h-264-support-through-x264-open-source-codec | |
| # Last update: Aug 18, 2020 | |
| # Retrieve latest FFMPEG release version. | |
| # We get the complete url pointing to the latest zip package via the curl command. | |
| # | |
| # -L If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location | |
| # this option will make curl redo the request on the new place. | |
| # | |
| # -o <file> Write output to <file> instead of stdout. | |
| # | |
| # -s Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages. | |
| # | |
| # -w <format> Make curl display information on stdout after a completed transfer. The format is | |
| # a string that may contain plain text mixed with any number of variables. | |
| URL=`curl -L -o /dev/null -s -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/latest` | |
| FFMPEGVER=${URL%\"*} | |
| FFMPEGVER=${FFMPEGVER##*/} | |
| FFMPEGZIP=${FFMPEGVER}-linux-x64.zip | |
| # Download library from complete url and save it locally. | |
| # Archive is extracted in the working directory and immediately deleted. | |
| # | |
| # -L (see above) | |
| # -O Write output to a local file named like the remote file we get. | |
| # Only the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut off. | |
| curl -L -O https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/${FFMPEGVER}/${FFMPEGZIP} | |
| unzip ${FFMPEGZIP} | |
| rm ${FFMPEGZIP} | |
| # Overwrite Opera libffmpeg (requires root privileges). | |
| # Install (ie. copy) the latest version of the library in the system library folder. | |
| # Before overwriting the Opera library file, make a copy... So we can manually rollback if we messed up things :) | |
| sudo mv libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so | |
| sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so.orig | |
| sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffmpeg_h264.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so |
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