Videos won't play

[digiface]

digiface last edited by

Works here too. Have you disabled encrypted media extensions in opera://flags/ ?

[murray]

murray last edited by

Thanks for checking guys.

I've just checked "Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)" in the flags and it's set to "Default (enabled)", so looks like that's not the problem.

This is the only site that I have this problem playing videos on, other sites such as Youtube work just fine.

In the flags I have the following:

Disable Media Source API
Disable Encrypted Media Extensions
Disable prefixed Encrypted Media Extensions

All of these have "Enable" buttons under them, so I assume that these settings are currently disabled? So if a "Disable" flag is disabled, does that mean the setting is enabled? (seems to be a double negative here!)

[digiface]

digiface last edited by

They are enabled, if there's enable button under them. It's kinda weird, but makes sense. If you click the enable button, then they are disabled, because then you enable disable function. :rolleyes:

Oh forgot, There's also problem with some videos, if "click-to-play" for extensions is set in Opera settings. Some vids won't start to play with click-to-play option.

[59er]

59er last edited by

I tried your link and the videos, initially, would not play. I remembered Opera Turbo was enabled. After disabling, the videos played normally. There are other videos that will not play nice with Opera, turning off turbo just happened to work here.

[murray]

murray last edited by

I tried your link and the videos, initially, would not play. I remembered Opera Turbo was enabled. After disabling, the videos played normally. There are other videos that will not play nice with Opera, turning off turbo just happened to work here.

I checked and I don't have Opera Turbo turned on. Just to be sure I turned it on and then back off, the videos still won't play.

[murray]

murray last edited by

I tried Opera on my desktop PC and the videos work fine on there, so it must be something to do with my settings on my netbook.

If I reinstall Opera will it keep all my bookmarks, passwords and form-filling entries?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

I tried Opera on my desktop PC and the videos work fine on there, so it must be something to do with my settings on my netbook.

They use the same OS? Opera relies on the OS to play some videos.

[murray]

murray last edited by

I tried Opera on my desktop PC and the videos work fine on there, so it must be something to do with my settings on my netbook.

They use the same OS? Opera relies on the OS to play some videos.

No, the one that plays videos ok is still running Windows XP, the one that won't play videos is running Windows 7. It's only one site that I've found that it won't play videos on, and that's stuff.co.nz

[athlonite]

athlonite last edited by

Your using and out of date version of Opera time to update

latest version is 34.0.2036.25

and all the videos on Stuff work fine for me here in Napier

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

It's only one site that I've found that it won't play videos on, and that's stuff.co.nz

Do you have turbo or/and "click to play" enabled by chance?

[joshl]

joshl last edited by

Leo, he said he tried Turbo.

I guess in these "new and shiny" Windowses some mediapacks are missing. Or at least...
Try comparing those packs and stuff on both systems. Perhaps you might need to find that missing gear somehow...

You said "won't play": what does it show instead? Do you have an active frame/object there? Is there any context menu available in that area? Does it say something? Same stuff or varies?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

Leo, he said he tried Turbo.

Well, there is still click to play to check.
With it enabled, videos don't play for me on that site.

[sirohmah]

sirohmah last edited by

Works fine here. Have you disabled encrypted media extensions in opera://flags/ ?

[murray]

murray last edited by

Works fine here. Have you disabled encrypted media extensions in opera://flags/ ?

I tried that, it made no difference (but thanks for the suggestion).

[murray]

murray last edited by

It's only one site that I've found that it won't play videos on, and that's stuff.co.nz

Do you have turbo or/and "click to play" enabled by chance?

Turbo is turned off. Click to Play is also off (it's set to "Run all plug-in content (recommended)").

[murray]

murray last edited by

Your using and out of date version of Opera time to update
latest version is 34.0.2036.25
and all the videos on Stuff work fine for me here in Napier

Yeah, I'm now running 34.0.2036.25, it updated since I originally posted at the beginning of December.

[murray]

murray last edited by

Leo, he said he tried Turbo.
I guess in these "new and shiny" Windowses some mediapacks are missing. Or at least...
Try comparing those packs and stuff on both systems. Perhaps you might need to find that missing gear somehow...
You said "won't play": what does it show instead? Do you have an active frame/object there? Is there any context menu available in that area? Does it say something? Same stuff or varies?

This is what I see when the page with a video loads, without me having clicked on anything to make the video play:

I suppose my netbook might be missing a video codec, but the videos play ok in Chrome so I don't think it would be a missing codec.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator last edited by

I suppose my netbook might be missing a video codec, but the videos play ok in Chrome so I don't think it would be a missing codec.

Chrome doesn't rely on the OS to play videos, it uses its own library afaik.

What does opera://media-internals/ says when you try to load the video?

[digiface]

digiface last edited by

There might be something changed in opera://flags/ You can try reset all options to default values. There's a button for that in the right upper corner.

Also, you can try disabling all the browser add-ons/extensions, such as ad-blockers etc.

[murray]

murray last edited by

I suppose my netbook might be missing a video codec, but the videos play ok in Chrome so I don't think it would be a missing codec.

Chrome doesn't rely on the OS to play videos, it uses its own library afaik.
What does opera://media-internals/ says when you try to load the video?

Wow, I didn't know about opera://media-internals, thanks!

Under the Player tab it says:

render_id: 248
player_id: 0
pipeline_state: kStopped
event: WEBMEDIAPLAYER_CREATED
url: https://assets.stuff.co.nz/video/production/1451429022625-darts best.mp4
total_bytes: 19124866
streaming: false
single_origin: true
passed_cors_access_check: false
range_header_supported: true
error: FFmpegDemuxer: open context failed
pipeline_error: demuxer: could not open

Does that tell you anything?