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    • athlonite
      athlonite last edited by

      they may use an unsupported video/audio format try installing a codec pack like KLite and see if that makes a difference

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      • ultramax
        ultramax @athlonite last edited by

        @athlonite k-kite codecs pack makes no difference. either it's installed or removed

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        • athlonite
          athlonite @ultramax last edited by athlonite

          @ultramax well then I have no idea what your problem is as both the linked video and (god forbid) pornhub videos work like they should for me also that GPU is fairly old so I wouldn't be expecting to much support from Opera for it as even AMD have relegated it to SOL when it comes to driver support

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          • ultramax
            ultramax @athlonite last edited by ultramax

            @athlonite This is why I'm here at specialized Opera forums and posted my opera://gpu/ details
            Maybe my videocard is dying... or smth. Just wonder if someone can help understand this. Maybe this is smth related to Win10 LTSB and I need to roll back to Win7

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            • athlonite
              athlonite @ultramax last edited by

              @ultramax I would say it's a driver issue as I said you have an old GPU AMD don't support it anymore and as you say turning off hardware acceleration allows the videos to play but with it on it fails there is the problem it's not a windows problem but an old hardware problem also I think FF and IE don't have hardware acceleration turned on by default like Opera or Chrome or most any Chromium based browser does that's why they just work OTB

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              • ultramax
                ultramax @athlonite last edited by ultramax

                @athlonite Several months ago all was working correctly. The same sites, the same system
                I wonder what type of the embedded video is it as I tried Live Unintu 18.04 - neither firefox nor opera can play it. I just see spinning circle and that's all

                UPD just tried to enable hardware acceleration in FireFox - also shows OK without any issues

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                • ultramax
                  ultramax last edited by ultramax

                  So - just FYI (as they say)
                  I spent couple of days trying different versions of windows to see what will be happening with the latest version of Opera and this is what I found
                  Win 7 (either 32 or 64 bit) - no problems with Hardware Acceleration
                  Win 10 (either 32 or 64 bit) - Hardware Acceleration does not work in Opera

                  So this is probably something related to Win 10 driver (for all cases I was using automatically installed drivers from Windows Update). This makes me guess: What are my next steps: roll back to Win 7 or try to find a driver for Win 10 to make it work correctly. Maybe install Win 7 driver..

                  Am I correct?

                  PS But anyway - FireFox with Hardware acceleration works well (and IE with Hardware acceleration also works well). Maybe smth wrong with chromium engine? Does it make sense to ask someone from opera tech support?

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                  • ultramax
                    ultramax last edited by

                    Seems like it's a Chromium issue. Found other people with the same problems
                    Raised it here, we will see if it can be fixed

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                    • burnout426
                      burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                      https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=820643#c41 suggests (the specific problem in that bug) to leave hardware acceleration on and just modify Opera's shortcut to pass --disable-direct-composition to launcher.exe.

                      Not sure if that'll work around this case, but it's worth a try for now. Also not sure how much of a performance hit that is, but maybe it's less than disabling hardware acceleration completely.

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                      • ultramax
                        ultramax @burnout426 last edited by

                        @burnout426 this is my comment, #41 🙂
                        I already modified my shortcut that starts the browser. Yes, it helps... but... I'd like to see it's good without any modification, like it works in Win 7

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                        • athlonite
                          athlonite @ultramax last edited by athlonite

                          @ultramax said in Hardware acceleration breaks video on a page:

                          So - just FYI (as they say)
                          I spent couple of days trying different versions of windows to see what will be happening with the latest version of Opera and this is what I found
                          Win 7 (either 32 or 64 bit) - no problems with Hardware Acceleration
                          Win 10 (either 32 or 64 bit) - Hardware Acceleration does not work in Opera

                          So this is probably something related to Win 10 driver (for all cases I was using automatically installed drivers from Windows Update). This makes me guess: What are my next steps: roll back to Win 7 or try to find a driver for Win 10 to make it work correctly. Maybe install Win 7 driver..

                          Am I correct?

                          PS But anyway - FireFox with Hardware acceleration works well (and IE with Hardware acceleration also works well). Maybe smth wrong with chromium engine? Does it make sense to ask someone from opera tech support?

                          Never use drivers for GPU, Audio or Network card from Microsoft they somehow manage to screw them up go here>>>
                          link text

                          download and install this driver and see if it make any difference

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                          • ultramax
                            ultramax @athlonite last edited by ultramax

                            @athlonite said in Hardware acceleration breaks video on a page:

                            Never use drivers for GPU, Audio or Network card from Microsoft they somehow manage to screw them up go here>>>
                            link text
                            download and install this driver and see if it make any difference

                            There is no AMD Mobility Radeon 3400 driver for Win 10 from AMD exists. Do you suggest installing smth from either Win 7 or Win 8?

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                            • ultramax
                              ultramax last edited by ultramax

                              And I have just downloaded drivers for Win 8 x64 - installed from AMD
                              The same version like it used to be when it was installed by Windows update, the same issue like it used to be

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                              • athlonite
                                athlonite @ultramax last edited by

                                @ultramax I think your expecting a little to much from an Legacy EOL gpu mate I posted the latest available drivers for your GPU if they don't work under Windows 10 like you want then it's probably time to upgrade your laptop to something a little more recent with a supported GPU

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                                • burnout426
                                  burnout426 Volunteer @ultramax last edited by

                                  @ultramax See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=800950#c46 if you haven't.

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                                  • ultramax
                                    ultramax @athlonite last edited by

                                    @athlonite the same drivers for Win 10 and Win 7 behave differently. And again, I was discussing the issue below (see link) so chromium support confirmed that this is chromium issue

                                    @burnout426 said in Hardware acceleration breaks video on a page:

                                    @ultramax See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=800950#c46 if you haven't.

                                    Already there

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                                    • s390g2
                                      s390g2 @burnout426 last edited by

                                      @burnout426
                                      ATI Radeon HD 4200 had that problem since around chromium v64. Just tried the --disable-direct-composition switch per your suggestion and it works! The cpu was pegged at 100% at full screen, when using no hardware acceleration. With it turned on and the command line switch, the cpu dropped to 50% or less at full screen. Worked on both opera 57 and vivaldi-snapshot. Seems good so far. Thanks!
                                      Win10

                                      On same box using debian, I never had any problems with same browsers. On Win10, I think the problem affects the entire ati HD 4000 series.

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                                      • ultramax
                                        ultramax @s390g2 last edited by

                                        @s390g2 not only ati HD 4000. Other old mobile ATI series also affected

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                                        • ultramax
                                          ultramax last edited by ultramax

                                          This fix is implemented on top of tree and has been merged back to Chrome M70 branch.

                                          So you will get this fix when Chrome is M70 or newer.

                                          Release dates are herelink text

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                                          • s390g2
                                            s390g2 last edited by

                                            I see some more tweaks are in review there due to increased crashes from the fix. But it's progressing.
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