Twitter Videos not working in 31
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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.
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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 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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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 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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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 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 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 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 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. -
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.
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 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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A Former User last edited by
So I did a fresh install of 7 and this did NOT fix the issue. I've now done an upgrade to 10 and these busted videos finally work.
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sfearmentor last edited by
Glad to hear that and sorry if I caused you trouble. At least someone's problem is solved.
works in chrome and firefox
