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    CNN videos hang / get stuck after a few seconds on HWA = "on"

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    • thartneid
      thartneid last edited by

      There has been some discussion about the HWA-setting (Hardware acceleration) in this forum recently, mainly meant as a remedy for the v.46 problem of getting very sluggish upon loading data-rich sites, worst example of all being "Google maps" which will never load entirely and render the site unusable without the final navigational layers ever to come up - UNLESS "HWA" is set to "on".

      Unfortunately it seems that this is no solution either because I have verified on several systems by now, that it is exactly this setting that will bring up a long-standing bug in Opera: CNN-videos (http://us.cnn.com) will hang / get stuck after a few seconds and never resume to be played in entirety as soon as HWA is set to "on".

      Could you please verify this strange behavior as a general phenomenon also occurring on your systems - or not. And if so, please also verify if it goes away on "HWA" set to "off" - which unfortunately brings back all the endless-loading-troubles since v.46. (Until v.45 loading pages with "HWA"=off resulted in only minimal delay and therefore was an acceptable compromise, apart from the fact that up until v.45 videos on 4K-displays were not upscaled properly in "full-screen-mode" and played in native resolution in the upper left corner instead).

      greetings

      Tom

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        I've tried a few videos on CNN page and all of them played fine here.

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        • thartneid
          thartneid last edited by

          Please specify if they played fine with HWA set to "on", too - or did they only in the "off"-position of that "switch"?

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          • leocg
            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

            Please specify if they played fine with HWA set to "on", too

            What would be the meaning of testing it with hardware acceleration off? 🙂

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            • thartneid
              thartneid last edited by

              Well, to demonstrate the difference of course - that is, if there is any, as I have seen on half a dozen of different systems which all happen to hang with CNN-videos, but only on HWA="on".

              greetings

              Tom

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              • thartneid
                thartneid last edited by

                Meanwhile v.46.0.2597.61 is out ...

                and the calamities described in this thread go on unchanged.

                Tom

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  It was reported already so it can be checked and fixed if the case?

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                  • thartneid
                    thartneid last edited by

                    Sorry "leocg", I somehow do not get the meaning of your last question. Reported, yes. Fixed? Still waiting, all I'm saying. How could it be "not the case" to be a problem if it can be clearly reproduced, depending on the "HWA"-setting = "on" and not occurring on "HWA" = "off"? And why was "HWA" = "off" not a problem until v.45 and has become a massive problem with many other sites (not only "Google maps") only since v.46?

                    greetings

                    Tom

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      Reported, yes.

                      If it was reported then it will probably get a fix if they can reproduce the issue.

                      BTW, put the bug ID here (without the @ part) for reference.

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                      • thartneid
                        thartneid last edited by

                        Thanks "leocg", I wasn't aware of that bug reporting procedure. I went under the assumption that bugs are reported by discussing them in this forum. Meanwhile there is such a report: DNAWIZ-18404. Does that mean that the so far unfixed "Google-maps" / v.46-general-loadig-bug may not have been officially reported either while having been amply discussed in this forum?

                        Btw, did you Opera-forum guys notice that this very site has practically been down for a day and a half from thursday 7/27 to friday 7/28? In particular when logged in you couldn't get past the "overview"-page which again kept loading and loading with the busy-cursur blinking frantically (sounds familiar with Opera v.46 from "Google maps"?)?

                        As soon as one would proceed to the Windows- (or any) problems page the browser kept jumping back to the "overview"-page within seconds again. That one seems now fixed. I'm wondering though if that phenomenon might also have been related to the v.46-loading problem and so far couldn't figure out how to determine if that one, too, has been "officially" reported via the "wizard"? Because over there it is only mentioned that a bug already discussed in the forum will probably have been "officially" reported via the "wizard" in the first place - but how to be sure?

                        greetings

                        Tom

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          Does that mean that the so far unfixed "Google-maps" / v.46-general-loadig-bug may not have been officially reported either while having been amply discussed in this forum?

                          There is a chance.

                          Btw, did you Opera-forum guys notice that this very site has practically been down for a day and a half from thursday 7/27 to friday 7/28?

                          There is a topic about it and the information is that the issue was already fixed.

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