Videos and gifs not playing on specific websites

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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

You can goto the URL opera://settings/system, turn off hardware acceleration, restart and try again. If that doesn't help, turn it back on.

Then, if you want, you can play with these flags:

opera://flags/#d3d11-video-decoder

opera://flags/#use-angle

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burnout426 Volunteer @blankoambit last edited by

@blankoambit said in Videos and gifs not playing on specific websites:

@burnout426 the link you gave me also plays for me but when i try other videos on the same site it doesn't play....

I tried multiple videos on the site, but couldn't find one that doesn't work.

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blankoambit @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 nope still doesn't work....

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@burnout426 i dont think so.....

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blankoambit @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 that's weird....

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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

What does opera://media-internals say after trying to play the video?

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You can also hit ctrl + shift + i to load developer tools and look in the console to see if there are any errors.

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Maybe it's a Win7-only issue though, so hopefully someone else can test too.

It might be something outside Opera like security software that's interfering in some way.

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blankoambit @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 i guess so i'll just use another browser for those sites...... thank you so much for all the help.....

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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

You can test in Vivaldi too. If it also doesn't play the videos, it's probably an issue with how Vivaldi and Opera use the Windows Media Foundation to play proprietary media.

Also, even though I didn't need to use it, try opera://flags/#chromium-ua-compatibility to see if it helps you. If it doesn't, turn that off and use https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher-5/ to set a custom UA string of exactly Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.120 Safari/537.36 to see if it makes a difference.

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@burnout426
thank you for this vlive now works!!!!! gifs in twitter still doesn't play but its fine..... again thank you very much for the help.....

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burnout426 Volunteer @blankoambit last edited by

@blankoambit Which one worked? The flag or the extension with the string I mentioned?

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blankoambit @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 the flag