YouTube rolled out 60 FPS videos, Opera cannot play them, even in 30 FPS
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slin3 last edited by
Some videos on YouTube do work in 108060fps with Opera but apparently only those which are available as webm/vp9. Those who use h.264 are only available in 360p30fps and 720p30fps. If you go to this site: https://www.youtube.com/html5 you will see that h.264 DOES work in HTML5 via the system libraries but it does NOT work with Media Source Extensions which seem to be a requirement for YouTube's DASH player and apparently 1080p and 60fps.
I don't know if this is possible (due to licensing problems) but I hope the Opera team is working on MSE support with h.264 because this is something that could seriously make me switch my browser for the first time in ages. As it stands I see no other way to watch YouTube in 1080p than to use a different browser, use Flash or wait for YouTube to process the video to vp9 which might take ages. 60fps only works if I wait for vp9 too or by using a different browser. It would be nice for the Opera team to make some statement about this because if they don't or can't do anything about it I might as well switch to Chrome now. -
A Former User last edited by
hah, now I see...
I can watch Avatar video in 60 fps, but video I uploaded (720p@60fps) is in H264/mkv, and is played 30 fps (or even less). html5 player -
ruario last edited by
@slin3 Sums up the situation nicely. Firstly, this has nothing to do with Flash. The problem is only with 60 FPS HTML5 videos encoded with H.264, since MSE is used and Opera for Windows and Mac do not currently support MSE in combination with H.264 videos.
It is worth noting that many popular videos are later transcoded to WebM/VP9, which do work in Opera, even at 60 FPS. This is why people are getting mixed results. If someone links a video and says it doesn't work, some time later another Opera user may come back and find it does work as a WebM version is then available.
P.S. As a side note, Opera Linux users with a system-provided FFmpeg with H.264 support compiled in will see all videos. The reason for this is that on all three platforms we use the OS to decode H.264.
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falloutboy09 last edited byquote of ruario
P.S. As a side note, Opera Linux users with a system-provided FFmpeg with H.264 support compiled in will see all videos. The reason for this is that on all three platforms we use the OS to decode H.264.
So I get this right, that we normally would be able to few all kinds of 60fps videos as long as we could view them by other video tools as the OS is used to decode the codec.
BUT we can not view H.264 in combination with MSE (which is city code on license plates here) as Opera does not support the MSE part.May someone tell me what MSE stands for in this case?
And Opera is about to encorporate this MSE & H.264 'thingy', in the next couple big updates? -
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zatixjo last edited by
I was ready to give up Chrome for Opera or Safari.
But safari a trouble with Adblock and very huge memory link screwing the computer.but Opera has problem with h264 video.
Google are ***** who want to push VP9, when its it not possible to have smooth video in 1080p without burning the computer or having a very powerful computer (core i5 @ 2.53 ghz, dualcore is not enough...) because this shitty codec is not supported for hardware acceleration.
My conclusion is the following. There is a stupid war open source vs the proprietary. Some companies/ only accept open source, even if the open source equivalent does not exists or is big crap. Apparently, it in some people's mind, it is not possible to use and support open source by using proprietary stuff at the same time, at least by the time the open source equivalent is good enough. Who are the victims? US, USERS are VICTIMS in this stupid war.
What if I told you I can support H.264 now because the VP9 need to much power for HD video and support VP9 when it will be supported by GPU, and use it only for non HD video for now? -
cooperb21 last edited by
Any updates on this i really wany 60fps playback on opera.
Chrome and firefox both have this feature. Firefox is currently in nighly but at least its up and coming feature.
Not even opera dev has this feature yet....
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lando242 last edited by
I'm using Opera 27.0.1689.22 and 60 FPS Youtube videos are working fine for me. Maybe you should double check to see if its working or not.
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lando242 last edited by
Ah, sure enough you're right. I hate using adobe flash though and force HTML5 with the Magic Actions extension. I guess that forces the use of the difference codec.
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xdynamite last edited by
Hi, do you know why in Html5 Youtube version I can watch videos only at 720p as max resolution? Until a short time ago I could get 1080p or higher, but not now, only old videos can be watched at higher resolution. Of course in Flash mode there are no problems, but I prefer to use html5. Has something changed in Opera with the last two or three updates?
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case1 last edited by
What I don't understand is why Opera can play h264 60 fps videos on YouTube just fine in Linux, but can't play them in Windows. Is there some kind of free h264 codec that's only available in Linux but not in Windows? That strikes me as odd...
Or is there any other reason for this situation?
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ikaaretkoski last edited by
I can play 60fps videos fine after enabling html5 player at https://www.youtube.com/html5
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videogame57 last edited by
My Opera won't play videos in 60FPS either, but if I change my User Agent to Google Chrome, they play in 60FPS no problem. I suspect this is just scumbaggery on Google's part.
