Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tryinggx last edited by burnout426

@tryinggx said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:

The link for the "Windows Media Feature Pack" for windows 7 does not exist anymore, and I cannot find it on the microsoft site anywhere.

Search the net for Windows6.1-KB968211-x86-RefreshPkg.msu or Windows6.1-KB968211-x64-RefreshPkg.msu depending on whether you have 32-bit Win7 or 64-bit Win7.

Or, goto https://web.archive.org/web/20200207121551/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16546, scroll down, click "Download", check the box for the one you need and click "next". See if the download from the archive works.

Or, direct downloads from the archive:

64-bit

32-bit

[tryinggx]

tryinggx last edited by

Thanks for digging that out. I was under the impression the archive does not keep binary files from websites.

I get error 0x8007065e (data of this type not supported) when trying to execute it, though.
Supposed fixes I've found suggest fumbling with the windows update system and waiting some magic number of minutes in between some of the steps, borders on gambling as unspecific as that is to what's really going on behind the scenes...
I guess I'll try it.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tryinggx last edited by

@tryinggx said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:

I was under the impression the archive does not keep binary files from websites.

Sometimes I've gotten lucky, so I just took a chance.

I get error 0x8007065e

Most likely the archive has corrupted the files. I'll see if I can find them somewhere else.

[tryinggx]

tryinggx last edited by

If there was a way to find out whether some sort of MS CD / DVD of the past contained such update diles, as there sometimes were, and knew the name of the CD (like MSDN year/month whatever),
then one could look on archive org where they host old CD / DVD images, which seems separate from the websites archiving.
I once found an MSDN DVD iso image with some old .NET installer that I needed for something, there.
Although that little update... vs. some whole service pack... I guess unlikely.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

The 64-bit download is at https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Media-Feature-Pack-for-Windows-7-N-and-Windows-7-KN.shtml. Even though it's not from a Microsoft site, the download seems legit.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tryinggx last edited by

@tryinggx Not sure.

[tryinggx]

tryinggx last edited by

Thanks for finding that! I'll try it out.

[tryinggx]

tryinggx last edited by

Hey,

I actually got to trying it out now,

seems to work! After installing that pack for Windows N on my win7 64bit, restarting, now! I.e. videos, and whole websites, that did not work before, now work.

Thanks!

[Jaanis]

Jaanis last edited by

I cannot play most of the videos on Opera as well, too. (Youtube is working though.) For example, I tried videos on Twitter and bbc.com.

I can watch the videos on Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi all right.

At https://html5test.com I can see that the difference between Opera and other browsers is the "No" for H.264 support and AAC support. (There is "No" for H.265 support and MPEG-4 ASP support as well, but none of my browsers have that anyway, so that's probably not the problem.)

I have disabled "Use hardware acceleration when available" and enabled "Override software rendering list", and I cannot find the flag "disable-accelerated-video-decode".

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jaanis last edited by

@jaanis Maybe you have a N version of Windows?

[Jaanis]

Jaanis @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:

@jaanis Maybe you have a N version of Windows?

No, it's Linux Mint 20.1. (I remembered that I need to add this after posting, but I couldn't edit while the post was waiting for approval.)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jaanis last edited by

@jaanis Well, you posted in a topic in Opera for Windows forum. There's a topic regarding it in Opera for Linux forum, with (possible) solutions for that issue.

[Jaanis]

Jaanis @leocg last edited by Jaanis

@leocg said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:

@jaanis Well, you posted in a topic in Opera for Windows forum. There's a topic regarding it in Opera for Linux forum, with (possible) solutions for that issue.

OK, thanks, I'll search for that one then. I just found this thread by Google.

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For Linux:

• https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic
• https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon

[clafix]

clafix last edited by

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.