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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Sure, let me get my spoon out so I can feed it to you. No, no, don't try and google search for it yourself, you might pull a muscle. Open your mouth wide...
      http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/

      Any other ideas you want to spoonfeed me? I'm all mouth.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        So these videos are still busted for me in version 32.0.1948.69

        The video in my first post works in Chrome, Firefox and IE11(!) too.

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        • luucasalves
          luucasalves last edited by

          same 😞 works in chrome and firefox

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          • luucasalves
            luucasalves last edited by

            This browser does not support video playback.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              So an interesting wrinkle to this issue is that SOME videos on twitter do work.

              This one for instance does, however the one in my original post still does NOT work on my laptop.

              https://twitter.com/bonerman_inc/status/657014045854138368

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Here's another example of a video that does NOT work.

                https://twitter.com/NickTypesWords/status/658243089513906177

                and here's one that does:

                https://twitter.com/KayfabeComment/status/658266958048174080

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                • lando242
                  lando242 last edited by

                  All the videos you say don't work still work just fine for me. Its all down to what codecs are installed on your system. Twitter does not use the same codec for all of its videos.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    Its all down to what codecs are installed on your system

                    Afaik Opera relies on native OS codecs to play those videos, it will not use other codecs the user have installed.

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                    • lando242
                      lando242 last edited by

                      Really? Well that sucks.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Its all down to what codecs are installed on your system

                        Afaik Opera relies on native OS codecs to play those videos, it will not use other codecs the user have installed.

                        Interesting. Any idea on why these videos work on my other Windows 7 computers and not this one? Drivers and OS are up to date btw.

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                        • lando242
                          lando242 last edited by

                          Are they all the same version of Windows 7? IE all Home Edition or Professional edition? I've heard some versions of Windows 7 don't have all codecs that the standard versions have.

                          On an unrelated note, if you have the upgrade for Windows 10 available I would take it. Maybe not today but after the next big round of patches comes out. That will solve your problem. User Classic Shell if you want to keep the old look and feel of Windows 7. 10 is better than 8 but I know some people just don't like it.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            7 Pro 64 bit on all machines.

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                            • leocg
                              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                              7 Pro 64 bit on all machines.

                              Any extensions being used? If so, have you checked with them disabled?

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                              • sfearmentor
                                sfearmentor last edited by

                                @pete8475, there is audio only or nothing at all on those non working videos?

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  7 Pro 64 bit on all machines.

                                  Any extensions being used? If so, have you checked with them disabled?

                                  I have no extensions of any sort installed.

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    @pete8475, there is audio only or nothing at all on those non working videos?

                                    Yeah on the broken ones I get audio and the video player controls like pause and the progress bar but the actual video is just black.

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                                    • harbinger-ua
                                      harbinger-ua last edited by

                                      Same for me. For some videos there's only sound and black screen, and some work completely fine. Win 7 ultimate x64, Opera 32.0.1948.69.

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                                      • sfearmentor
                                        sfearmentor last edited by

                                        This is definitely a system codec issue and not an Opera one. Here is a link to the video file from the first post:
                                        https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/635619016179101696/pu/vid/720x1280/M6wxwYfuQHPX2mfP.mp4
                                        If you right-click, save it and play it with Windows Media Player, I bet it will play audio only. This is an issue with the Microsoft MPEG video decoder (the default Windows decoder for MP4) not being able to decode the video stream inside the MP4 container. It's common and not isolated to the 64-bit version of Windows. @pete8475, you should have something installed on your other machines, that you don't have on the problematic one - codec packs or media players that install codecs alongside them. Another possibility is that the Microsoft MPEG video decoder is a different version. It's located in the "SysWOW64" folder ("system32" for 32-bit), named "msmpeg2vdec.dll". Even if another decoder is installed, in this case ffdshow, it doesn't mean it's being used, because the Microsoft one has priority. It has to be either disabled manually (take ownership and rename) or via the so called "codec tweaker tools". They allow ffdshow to be selected as decoder for the different containers.

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          So I'm on the problem laptop right now and that linked mp4 file plays just fine in WMP when I save it. Still shows a black screen in Opera btw.

                                          I took a screenshot so you can see what I mean.

                                          https://imgur.com/jt7UbTq

                                          EDIT - I'm about to try that codec tweaker tools program to see if disabling the MS codec makes a difference.

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            So I took the approach of taking ownership of "msmpeg2vdec.dll" and renaming it to have .bak as the file extension in both system32 and syswow64 and I still just get a black screen on that video in Opera and it STILL plays in WMP12.

                                            EDIT - I'm going to do a fresh install of Windows on this laptop tonight. After the install and windows update are done I'll put Opera back on. It'll be interesting to see what happens at that point. If it still doesn't work I'll try the Windows 10 upgrade on the weekend.

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