How to fix Opera H.264 codecs (video not playing) on Ubuntu 24.04

This Gist script by Marco Carletti automatically fixes the problem that standard (non-Snap) installs of Opera fail to play H.264 videos on Ubuntu 24.04.

bash

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mcarletti/7989d1c04199dba60a01adf8ac54fe31/raw/8cbdcd7dacf3866e0b2c8d07e3d79d98fd6c8f40/opera_x264_support.sh
bash opera_x264_support.sh

Wait for it to download and enter your sudo password when prompted for it. Example output

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 2125k  100 2125k    0     0  1102k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 2697k
Archive:  0.93.0-linux-x64.zip
  inflating: libffmpeg.so            
[sudo] Passwort für uli