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

[marseipan]

marseipan last edited by

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

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

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

[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 ✔

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

H.264 support No ✘

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

[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....

[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)

[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.

[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.

[marseipan]

marseipan last edited by

Try installing the media pack, it may help.

OK that helped, thx!