Problems with streaming flash on Opera/Linux/Ubuntu - SOLVED

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I tried to stream the excellent Porthcawl RNLI live stream from my ubuntu laptop and encountered the error message:

"your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available"

I found the solution here.

This solved it for me (I had to amend the commands slightly to change library locations):

wget https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/download/0.20.3/0.20.3-linux-x64.zip
unzip 0.20.3-linux-x64.zip
sudo mv /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so_orig
sudo cp libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/libffmpeg.so

Then restart Opera.