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    [Solved]Opera does not play videos (not flash, I think html5) like on twitter or many other pages

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    • marseipan
      marseipan last edited by

      There only appears a message: "This video could not be played" (translated)

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      • sgunhouse
        sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Try disabling the ad-blocker on that page and see if it helps.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          Interesting, Steve.

          A couple of sites say the same with browsers equipped with blockers.
          Sniffing at such blockers started recently on a few video services.

          On some, disabling (for the page), loading the element then enabling back again helps. On others, sniffing persists.
          Disabling the blocker altogether endangers the computer, let alone overloading CPU.

          When no disabling, I noticed the extensions poised to help download media will still locate the file(s) and will eventually download them if needed. I have a simple guy in tuxedo in Opera, and more than one exts in Firefox. Third browser I use does play those videos not having any exts or blockers.

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          • marseipan
            marseipan last edited by

            Try disabling the ad-blocker on that page and see if it helps.

            It does not help, even in private mode, when all plugins should be disabled, it doesn't work.

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            • marseipan
              marseipan last edited by

              I moved "%appdata%\Opera Software" and also installed opera beta, same problem...!?!

              Why doesn't it work? The message is:

              The media could not be played.

              Here are some system information:

              Opera:

              Opera bewerten
              Versionsinformation

              Version: 46.0.0.259726201 (PGO) - Opera ist auf dem neuesten Stand
              Update-Stream: Stable
              Betriebssystem: Windows 7 64-bit
              Browser-Identifikation

              Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.86 Safari/537.36 OPR/46.0.0.259726201 (Edition EXP154)

              Pfade

              Installations-Verzeichnis: C:\Program Files\Opera
              Profil-Verzeichnis: C:\Users\martin\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
              Cache-Verzeichnis: C:\Users\martin\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable

              Operating System

              Betriebssystemname Microsoft Windows 7 Professional N
              Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
              Zusätzliche Betriebssystembeschreibung Nicht verfügbar
              Betriebssystemhersteller Microsoft Corporation
              Systemname MARTIN-LAPTOP
              Systemhersteller LENOVO
              Systemmodell 20267
              Systemtyp x64-basierter PC
              Prozessor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz, 2401 MHz, 2 Kern(e), 4 logische(r) Prozessor(en)
              BIOS-Version/-Datum LENOVO 7CCN62WW, 13.11.2014
              SMBIOS-Version 2.8
              Windows-Verzeichnis C:\Windows
              Systemverzeichnis C:\Windows\system32
              Startgerät \Device\HarddiskVolume1
              Gebietsschema Deutschland
              Hardwareabstraktionsebene Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
              Benutzername MARTIN-LAPTOP\martin
              Zeitzone Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
              Installierter physikalischer Speicher (RAM) 4,00 GB
              Gesamter realer Speicher 3,93 GB
              Verfügbarer realer Speicher 1,14 GB
              Gesamter virtueller Speicher 7,86 GB
              Verfügbarer virtueller Speicher 4,39 GB
              Größe der Auslagerungsdatei 3,93 GB
              Auslagerungsdatei C:\pagefile.sys

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                Does https://html5test.com/ say that H264 is supported?

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                • marseipan
                  marseipan last edited by
                  Video codecs
                  MPEG-4 ASP support No ✘
                  H.264 support No ✘
                  H.265 support No ✘
                  Ogg Theora support Yes ✔
                  WebM with VP8 support Yes ✔
                  WebM with VP9 support Yes ✔
                  
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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                    H.264 support No ✘

                    That's the reason for those videos don't play, most possibly.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      H.264 support No ✘

                      I have the same issue too.
                      I am using Opera on Windows XP, Opera 36.0.2130.80.

                      Twitter has n't been working me for a long time.

                      VLC media player is listed as on the plug-in. Tried turning it on and off....

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                      • marseipan
                        marseipan last edited by

                        where can we find the codec? (didn't find anything on google for installation)

                        I think on my system it doesn't work because I have Win 7 64 Bit N (N = no Windows Media Player)

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                          I have the same issue too.
                          I am using Opera on Windows XP, Opera 36.0.2130.80

                          XP can't play h264 videos natively so Opera can't play those videos.

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                          • leocg
                            leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                            I think on my system it doesn't work because I have Win 7 64 Bit N (N = no Windows Media Player)

                            Try installing the media pack, it may help.

                            where can we find the codec?

                            Opera can only play h264 if your OS can do it natively so installing the codec probably will not help.

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                            • marseipan
                              marseipan last edited by

                              Try installing the media pack, it may help.

                              OK that helped, thx!

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