Video not playing in OPERA

[jeylm]

jeylm @Guest last edited by

@nvmjustagirl its 64bit, exactly with the same driver (WU provided ) which you mention. anyway, the videos are broken just since update to opera 51. in MS edge and firefox 59 i have no issues.

[A Former User]

A Former User @jeylm last edited by A Former User

@jeylm Good to hear ya got the right driver..

one other thing about that driver..

Once updated with that driver multiple displays don't work, and the correct screen resolution is not available..

Does it show the correct screen resolution or is it not available..

If it is not available..their is a workaround.. *just say 'n..

[jeylm]

jeylm @Guest last edited by

@nvmjustagirl Hi, disabling hardware acceleration fixed video playback (with cost to cpu utilization of course)

@leocg any idea if some support of GPUs was dropped since 51? nothing mentioned in release notes

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @jeylm last edited by leocg

@jeylm No idea, try checking in Chromium site.

Also check if your graphic card drivers are up to date.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Just for testing, you can try a few things.

• Re-enable Hardware acceleration.

• Enable opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist

• Modify Opera's shortcut to pass --disable-gpu-sandbox to launcher.exe.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/gpu/+/master/config/software_rendering_list.json#657 gave me the idea for the 3rd one. If it does work though, it's probably not safe to really browse the web, so it's not really a solution.

[A Former User]

A Former User @jeylm last edited by

@jeylm a new Opera version 52.0.2871.30 Stable just came out !.. *yahh *might help with things..

[jeylm]

jeylm @Guest last edited by

@nvmjustagirl nope

[A Former User]

A Former User @loopy1945 last edited by

@loopy1945 I have the exact same problem with the latest Opera version on Win7, GeForce GTX 980. Chrome is doing it's job properly, but with Opera it freezes on video pages and overall, in my subjective opinion, whole browser doesn't run as fast as before.

[A Former User]

A Former User @jeylm last edited by A Former User

@jeylm This might help your older card try it if ya wanna.. if ya do lemme know if it helps..

most videos on youtube are encoded with VP9/VP8 codec, That means older GPUs can't decode VP8 or VP9 at all.. unless your video card supports it..

This extension will make YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.. Extension is called - H264ify - found here

But ya will need to install this chrome extension to Opera 1st called - Install Chrome Extensions - found here

[A Former User]

A Former User @jeylm last edited by A Former User

@jeylm Also in your opera://gpu thingy ya posted i see this is disabled - CheckerImaging: Disabled..

to enable this go to opera flags and enable this - AsyncImageDecoding

Enables asynchronous decoding of images from raster for web content – Mac, Windows, Linux

#enable-async-image-decoding

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@nvmjustagirl I don't really think it's related.

[A Former User]

A Former User @leocg last edited by A Former User

@leocg the extension thingy does what it say.. but yea its not gonna help : (

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@nvmjustagirl What extension?

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hello, everybody!
Some times later in another topic I was wrote about analogical problem (my post here https://forums.opera.com/post/143714).
In begin april we have some updates, opera, flash and windows. After installation of all updates, I was got that problem with flash videos - black screen and sound.
@burnout426, @Ceedee, @nvmjustagirl helps me and was recommend me to update video drivers.
In those time I was think then driver update is helps me to solve that. It's not helps. Drivers in beta version and works not proper. I was got black screen after sleep mode, flash video freezes. It's not good for me and I was roll back my system state. I was restore it from image (from february 2017). In that image I have opera 43.0.2442.849. Only after some failure attemps to localize a problem, I was understand:

• windows updates not broke flash video
• flash updates not lead to this problem
• only after opera update to latest version I was got this trouble.
  I was disable autoupdates by rename opera_autoupdate.exe

Now I have latest version of Chome(66.0.3359.117): trouble is here - video is black screen, sound - ok;
latest version of Firefox (59.0.2) - video is fine.
Opera 43.0.2442.849 - video is fine. I think if I enable autoupdates I was got black screen again.

[A Former User]

A Former User @loopy1945 last edited by

@loopy1945 Can't tell if my reply was posted or not. Try disabling the Magic Actions for YouTube. It has an ad blocker in it, and I had another ad blocker running. Turning off MYYT allowed my YouTubes to play.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@acmanich said in Video not playing in OPERA:

Drivers in beta version

Hmm, sorry that driver didn't work for completely.

[A Former User]

A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426
Don't worry, everything is fine. You warned me. I knew what I was doing.

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

For peeps with Switchable Graphics

This probally won't help..

example pic - go to the Switchable Graphic Application Settings - notice the red boxes.. see Firefox and Chrome.exe is set on power saving - needs to be high performance..

make sure opera is not in there on power saving mode.. if its got a lock thingy by it.. then i doubt ya can unlock it and change..

[A Former User]

A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

@nvmjustagirl i dunno if this could help, but has n e one tried this..

DVR on windows 10.. disable the Xbox Game DVR
see if it helps..