<![CDATA[Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10]]>Hi, since a few days Opera stopped playing twitter videos or GIFs.
For example this one: https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/832958089653579776
I get a message saying that "The media content could not be played" -> http://imgur.com/a/6cZyt

I'm using Windows 10 64bits with the latest updates. Opera is version 43 also latest update. It works correctly on Chrome.

Tried clearing everything (cache, cookies, etc) from "the beginning of time", tried uninstalling, disabling the built-in adblocker, but none worked.
It's kinda upsetting because I spend a lot of time on twitter and honestly, I don't like other browsers that much.

Any ideas?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/19378/opera-won-t-play-twitter-videos-or-gifs-on-windows-10RSS for NodeTue, 17 Mar 2026 16:56:24 GMTSun, 19 Feb 2017 05:56:02 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:15:23 GMT]]>@leogc didn't know about that..
there's certainly an error there. Here's the output for the link I've used in the post:

render_id: 13
player_id: 1
pipeline_state: kStopped
event: WEBMEDIAPLAYER_CREATED
url: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/C49C1WQWYAAIsqM.mp4
total_bytes: 405704
streaming: false
single_origin: true
passed_cors_access_check: false
range_header_supported: true
is_downloading_data: false
platform_pipeline_status_list: 2
error: FFmpegDemuxer: open context failed
pipeline_error: demuxer: could not open

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115585https://forums.opera.com/post/115585Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:15:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:13:27 GMT]]>

Do you have the latest Win 10 updates? I'm thinking this started happening after one of the windows updates a couple of weeks ago.

Ouch, sorry,

I'm Stacked on Anniversary Update because of Updates troubles. I'm lazy to refresh PC now

So my test is inconclusive.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115552https://forums.opera.com/post/115552Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:13:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:07:08 GMT]]>You can try checking opera://media-internals/ while trying to play a video to see if it shows something useful for you.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115535https://forums.opera.com/post/115535Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:07:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:55:02 GMT]]>Do you have the latest Win 10 updates? I'm thinking this started happening after one of the windows updates a couple of weeks ago.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115527https://forums.opera.com/post/115527Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:55:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:20:44 GMT]]>

It played fine here with the same OS

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]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115519https://forums.opera.com/post/115519Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:20:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:57:11 GMT]]>No extensions used. Tried on a private window and got the same behavior.
It seems like it can not longer recognize mp4 videos. At least from twitter.
But I'm using same Opera version on my work laptop (Windows 8.1) and works perfectly.

I have no idea what might have changed.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115513https://forums.opera.com/post/115513Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:57:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:59:18 GMT]]>Any extension being used? Does it work in a private window?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115471https://forums.opera.com/post/115471Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:59:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:52:29 GMT]]>No, it downloads the mp4 file instead. I know that Opera should play it in a tab, it did it before.
Not sure what have changed.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115442https://forums.opera.com/post/115442Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:52:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Opera won't play Twitter videos or GIFs on Windows 10 on Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:20:27 GMT]]>It played fine here with the same OS.

Can you play the video directly?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/115427https://forums.opera.com/post/115427Sun, 19 Feb 2017 06:20:27 GMT