Twitter video's sound gets muted.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @silaz last edited by burnout426

@silaz I was hoping to gather specific links on Twitter to gauge how abundant these problem videos are.

[Lucifer6666]

Lucifer6666 @burnout426 last edited by Lucifer6666

@burnout426 I can say it's getting worst. At first it was maybe 2-3 videos a day that had this problem but now most of the videos I saw on twitter has this.
If you wanna compare two here is a link.

Length : 56 seconds,audio is gone after 9 seconds
https://twitter.com/erdalbiroll/status/1116473516684132352

Length : 44 seconds, audio is perfectly fine
https://twitter.com/Red_ZaZa_/status/1116575919215276033

Edit: Also the fullscreen solution works.When the video is fullscreen, audio spikes up at 9 second so it is either a problem about how opera handles .ts file extension or how Twitter streams these.If you go fullscreen before 9 seconds you can turn it back to normal and it works fine.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Lucifer6666 last edited by

@Lucifer6666 said in Twitter video's sound gets muted.:

Length : 56 seconds,audio is gone after 9 seconds
https://twitter.com/erdalbiroll/status/1116473516684132352

Yes, thanks. That's another one.

[luca786toni]

luca786toni @Lucifer6666 last edited by

@Lucifer6666 said in Twitter video's sound gets muted.:

If you wanna compare two here is a link.

Length : 56 seconds,audio is gone after 9 seconds
https://twitter.com/erdalbiroll/status/1116473516684132352

Length : 44 seconds, audio is perfectly fine
https://twitter.com/Red_ZaZa_/status/1116575919215276033

The first video is screencaptured on a mobile (iPhone), also horizontal.
The second video is landscape (manually pillarbox'd), possibly from a computer.

It seems the theory that the problem is with mobile recorded/processed/uploaded videos is looking true.

I'm curious to see if we can come across some landscape/horizontal videos with the audio problem.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Some more that show the problem for me.

https://twitter.com/thesimplecrew/status/1117105076584108034
https://twitter.com/kgmpike/status/1117221328468238336
https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1117225129539506177
https://twitter.com/alyssarose1391/status/1117303511018983425
https://twitter.com/sarancr7/status/1117286932742987776
https://twitter.com/KayeMaxilom03/status/1117296958081658880

[luca786toni]

luca786toni @burnout426 last edited by luca786toni

@burnout426 said in Twitter video's sound gets muted.:

Some more that show the problem for me.

https://twitter.com/thesimplecrew/status/1117105076584108034
https://twitter.com/kgmpike/status/1117221328468238336
https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1117225129539506177
https://twitter.com/alyssarose1391/status/1117303511018983425
https://twitter.com/sarancr7/status/1117286932742987776
https://twitter.com/KayeMaxilom03/status/1117296958081658880

The audio cuts out at 9 seconds (for all of them) and then comes back for the last 2 seconds (on some of them).
Only the last one worked for me without dropping audio, but the audio did jump at 9 seconds for the remaining 2 seconds of the video as the length of it was 11 seconds in total.
I guess if the video was 12 seconds long instead of 11, then the 10th second would have dropped out? This seems to be the pattern.
Also all of these are mobile videos again (not sure of the operating system but I'll guess it's iOS if they're using TikTok + their age). The operating system is the next thing to find out here and also if any landscape mobile videos have this problem too (still looking for computer uploaded videos too).

Edit: At the time of writing this Twitter is flooded with videos of the Notre Dame cathedral fire. All landscape mobile videos seem to be working fine, but some vertical videos aren't. I'm not sure if it's because people are downloading them and reposting them (so Twitter reprocesses the video's audio) or if it's because of the OS the video came from.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I tweeted @Twitter about this forum thread. No response as of yet.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Ok i'm done waiting for a fix. Been using Opera for years now but it bothers me to open another browser just to watch twitter videos. I'm switching to firefox now

[silaz]

silaz @Guest last edited by

@Username2 Agree with you this is horrible.

[anamelash]

anamelash last edited by

Still not fixed.

[luca786toni]

luca786toni @anamelash last edited by luca786toni

@anamelash I can't remember when it was fixed but it's been at least a year.

In April 2019 when I had the problem, I was on:
Windows 10 Edu (1803) 64-Bit
Opera 58.0.3135.127
WidevineCDM 4.10.1196.0

Now in November 2020, I'm on:
Windows 10 Edu (1909) 64-Bit (unable to receive 2004 and 20H2 updates yet)
Opera 72.0.3815.207
WidevineCDM 4.10.1610.0