This video file cannot be played. (Error Code: 224002)

[albertchong]

albertchong last edited by

Has anyone had issues playing video content.

With the exception of Youtube, most websites report an error of being unable to play the video, e.g. see screenshot showing website https://archive.org/details/Stingray.Complete/Stingray.01.+STINGRAY.avi.

I have confirmed this issue occurs in 62.0.3331.99. I have tried to play the content with and without the VPN enabled. The same errors occur in the Beta version 64.0.3388.0.

I’ve also tried installing extensions media player and media plus to test if there was a codec issue but neither extension helps.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

@albertchong I do have this same issue. At first I thought this was because I updated to the Catalina Beta version, but I may be wrong if you have this issue on an older OS version.

I noticed this when trying to play MP4 files, but it seems like other formats also fail to play. Most MP4 files play just fine for 1 second and then just freeze.

[albertchong]

albertchong @Guest last edited by

@arasthel I’m on Catalina too but I’ve made sure that Opera has full disk access.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

I got an update on this issue. While the video still freezes after 1-2s with the latest Catalina beta 9 and both Opera and Opera Developer, it only happens when the video is embedded in a website. If I try to open just the video file using Opera, it will play without sound in Opera and just fine in Opera Developer.

Also, if I go into "opera://media_internals", I can see that there are errors present:

render_id: 67
player_id: 5
origin_url: https://www.tumblr.com/
frame_url: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard
frame_title: Tumblr
surface_layer_mode: kAlways
url: https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_pyasnmwSob1r0uzl6.mp4
total_bytes: 512345
streaming: false
single_origin: true
range_header_supported: true
pipeline_state: kStopped
bitrate: 677310
coded_height: 720
coded_width: 406
demuxer: AVFDemuxer
found_audio_stream: false
found_video_stream: true
height: 720
max_duration: 6.034
start_time: 0
video_codec_name: h264
video_format: PIXEL_FORMAT_YV12
video_is_encrypted: false
video_profile_name: h264 baseline
width: 406
info: Selected MojoVideoDecoder for video decoding, config: codec: h264, format: PIXEL_FORMAT_YV12, profile: h264 baseline, coded size: [406,720], visible rect: [0,0,406,720], natural size: [406,720], has extra data: false, encryption scheme: Unencrypted, rotation: 0°, flipped: 0, color space: {primaries:BT709, transfer:BT709, matrix:BT709, range:INVALID}
event: PAUSE
video_dds: false
video_decoder: MojoVideoDecoder
is_platform_video_decoder: true
video_buffering_state: BUFFERING_HAVE_ENOUGH
for_suspended_start: false
pipeline_buffering_state: BUFFERING_HAVE_ENOUGH
error: AVC bitstream converter: Could not calculate output buffer size
pipeline_error: DEMUXER_ERROR_COULD_NOT_PARSE
duration: 6.034
seek_target: 1.861919

This is a mp4 container with H264 video and AAC audio.

I can play other videos just fine, such as a webm container with vp9 video and opus audio.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Same problem here, version 63.0.3368.107 and Catalina beta 10