Youtube shorts make Opera crawl to a snails pace

[Toaos]

Toaos last edited by leocg

Youtube shorts make Opera crawl to a snails pace

It eats up my CPU
I'm Premium, all extensions deactivated.
Opera is the only brower behaving like that.
Can we have some feedback? IS anything happening in this so called support forum?

[jacpa2011]

jacpa2011 @Toaos last edited by

@Toaos I'm pretty sure that your computer hardware specs are the problem
because I tried replicating your problem by opening yt shorts with task manager and looking at how that goes
it didn't eat up my CPU, it eats the same amount of CPU as loading a video on YouTube.
I'm not on premium and I have a bunch of extensions
I compared the same test with Google Chrome and Firefox (with no extensions), and Opera GX still ran better overall.

[Toaos]

Toaos @jacpa2011 last edited by

@jacpa2011 said in Youtube shorts make Opera crawl to a snails pace:

I'm pretty sure that your computer hardware specs are the problem

No. No other browser give me that issue . Also all AVC1 videos actually give me problem on Opera as it can not render them but my system's player and other browsers can.

There's something wrong with Opera, period.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Toaos last edited by

@toaos Any examples of those AV1 videos?

[Toaos]

Toaos @leocg last edited by

@leocg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHo_luMuLD8
FF, chrome and Edge play it just fine , to test it, I downloaded the video from youtube using jdownloader and it plays on my system just fine.

Basically, my opera will not render any MP4 (on other sites ) that has AVC1 has a codec. AND youtube shorts is having it on his knees.

[Toaos]

Toaos @leocg last edited by Toaos

@leocg here's a video demo
Shorts killing Opera (as I show: all extensions disabled)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gHtlZf92W0

Youtube videos not playing when in AVC1 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysNYfdzmWmM

Ironically , those 2 videos I just uploaded to youtube to show you, Opera can't play them ^^'

[Toaos]

Toaos @leocg last edited by

@leocg
Hello
I've finally (accidentally) identified the problem. Following up to you so you can help if any other people come across it too .
This was a corrupted DLL in my system32: msmpeg2vdec.dll
MPEG2 video decoder. Weird.
Anways : I've installed a game, hotwheels unleashed 2 and it tried to load the splash screen videos and windows kept spaming me with error message concerning msmpeg2vdec.dll "'not being a valid windows dll and couldn't be loaded" . It clicked! Must be it!
Downloaded the dll from DLL-files.com, had to fiddle a bit to obtain administrato rights for the whole of system32 folder and replaced the dll .

Instantly fixed : all videos play in opera without any issue. Youtube shorts don't make my computer lag anymore. Everything is back in perfect working order!

Don't ask me how it happened , why a MPEG2 dll would cause that much issues etc, no idea.

Thanks Saint Hotwheels!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Toaos last edited by

@toaos I had no problem watching the video previously linked here.

I wouldn't really recommend downloading a DLL file from a web page other than the original author. Specially when it would be just for solving an issue with a specific software.

[Toaos]

Toaos @leocg last edited by

@leocg DLL-Files is a site as old as the internet. None of my anti malwares foudn anything wrong with the DLL I downloaded . And once again: the problem is now fixed.