@mbaluta
I tried the TV5 site in mobile mode, with no data compression selected, and still nothing. the site said I need Adobe flash. Now if Mercury and Coast, (which are not flash browsers can play this site, as well the ESPN site I referenced in my thread, why can't Opera Mini?. This seems like a browser design issue, that can be fixed by opera in a future update. I even checked Safari (mobile) browser and Chrome (mobile). They are not flash browsers, and they all can play the site.
Even for YouTube videos, yes with Opera Mini you can often play a lot of the videos in Mobile mode, but we're talking about a 10 inch Ipad. You don't want to be in mobile mode on the Ipad, you want to be in desktop mode. Otherwise the sites look less appealing. And having to go back and forth between Desktop mode and mobile mode is a bit of a burden. If that's what you have to do, maybe there should be a toggle button on the browser to make it easy. Now in general, Opera mini is terrific, but this is a negative. I'm using Coast more.
I filed the bug report.