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    Opera 45: Problems with Video Playback

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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Thanks zalex108, clearing the Opera profile has sorted out the Reuters problem. Now I just have to recreate my original settings etc!

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Oh dear! A word of warning to anyone before they do this.

        I renamed the old profile folder to *.OLD hoping to keep the original and all it's setting files. The newer version of Opera seems to have a new approach and rather than just recreating a new unpopulated profile folder it wiped the old one out. So I have now lost all my bookmarks, settings etc. ๐Ÿ˜ž

        So if you create a new clean profile be sure to take a backup of the old one first.

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        • weeetardd
          weeetardd last edited by

          Thanks for your answers!

          Unfortunately a private window or creating a new profile didn't help.
          I also tried copying the profile from the working PC, no success either.

          From what I know, Twitch is using HTML5 too.
          When I manually install Flash it works, but I am asuming I dont need to manually install Flash on my PC?
          It works on my other PC and in other browsers, without having Flash installed.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Hah! Just refound the old Opera profile folder. ๐Ÿ™‚

            Was looking in the wrong directory - there are so many of them nowadays!

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            • zalex108
              zalex108 last edited by

              Take a look here.
              Using OSync also helps for some things.

              If a clean profile doesn't fix the problem, then reinstall Opera and check what happens, maybe something broken.

              "You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". ยท Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                reuters.com acts that way for me too. It might be 3rd party cookies or some other setting - not sure. But reuters.tv always works and some of their other links in stories occasionally work. I always have flash disabled in the chromium based browsers, and not installed in the others. There are very few sites that still suck as far as needing flash - but they are evolving.

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                • zalex108
                  zalex108 last edited by

                  You may try deleting the problematic site cookies but in a a private window cookies are skipped, so if the site still fails then a clean profile is needed.

                  "You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you". ยท Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

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                  • weeetardd
                    weeetardd last edited by

                    I have already tried reinstalling Opera (both while deleting my profile and keeping it).
                    Didn't work either.

                    Something else, that might be worth mentioning, is that I am using Windows Server 2016 as my OS.
                    I doubt that it makes a difference however, since other browsers are working fine..

                    OSync didn't help too.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      Take a look at opera://media-internals/ while trying to play the videos and check if there are error messages.

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                      • weeetardd
                        weeetardd last edited by

                        When having just two tabs open (twitch + opera://media-internals/) it doesn't show any players (nothing unter Audio and Video Capture either).
                        The Youtube-problem seems like is has fixed itself, I am only experiencing issues with Twitch at the moment.

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          When having just two tabs open (twitch + opera://media-internals/) it doesn't show any players

                          Does Twitch use Flash? If so then nothing will be shown on media-internals.

                          Does opera://gpu says that video decode uses hardware acceleration?

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                          • weeetardd
                            weeetardd last edited by

                            I think Twitch is using HTML5 for about a year now. This is weird however, because the error says "Flash is not installed".

                            In opera:// gpu it says, that Video Decode is Hardware accelerated.
                            Here is a screenshot of the page, in case it is needed:

                            https://abload.de/img/operaciuv5.png

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