what video playback codecs are supported in opera?

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what video playback codecs are supported in opera?

[leocg]

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@thegeneral Without depending on the OS?

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How u mean depending on os? And yes on what codecs opera uses by it self

[leocg]

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@thegeneral Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
It has a table with the codecs supported by each browser.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

Opera itself supports (through basic ffmpeg support):

Video Codecs:

Theora
VP8
VP9
AV1

Audio Codecs:
PCM
MP3
Vorbis
Opus

For VP8, VP9, Vorbis and Opus, Opera supports the webm container. (webm file extension)

For Theora and Vorbis, Opera supports the OGG container. (ogg, oga, ogv file extensions)

For AV1 and Opus, Opera at least supports streaming it like with https://bitmovin.com/demos/av1. I don't think it supports the obu container yet.

Now, if on a version of Windows like Windows 7 and Windows 10 ("N" versions of 7 and 10 need the Windows Media Pack installed), Opera can use the Windows Media Foundation to also playback:

Video Codecs:
H.264

Audio Codecs:
AAC

For H.264 and AAC, Opera supports the mp4 container. (mp4, m4a and m4v extensions)

You can test video and audio support at https://html5test.com/

[A Former User]

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@leocg when i watch videos on youtube it get choppy on 1080p but when i use a extension called h264ify it shows the videos smooth

[leocg]

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@thegeneral As far as I know, YouTube uses VP8/9 by default.

[A Former User]

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@leocg yea but i use this extension it disables vp9 and vp8 and use avc1 and mp4

[leocg]

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@thegeneral I was just saying that it could be a reason for the problem you've mentioned.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by burnout426

@thegeneral said in what video playback codecs are supported in opera?:

@leocg when i watch videos on youtube it get choppy on 1080p but when i use a extension called h264ify it shows the videos smooth

Most likely that's because the decoding for h.264 is hardware-accelerated while vp8/vp9 is not. VP9 acceleration depends on your CPU and GPU for one. Then, Opera would have to take advantage of it and it might depend on OS, but not sure.

[zalex108]

zalex108 @Guest last edited by zalex108

@thegeneral said in what video playback codecs are supported in opera?:

@leocg yea but i use this extension it disables vp9 and vp8 and use avc1 and mp4

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@burnout426 okay never had the problem before tho

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@zalex108 how do you change the settings ?

[burnout426]

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Goto the URL https://www.youtube.com/account_playback while logged in.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@thegeneral said in what video playback codecs are supported in opera?:

@burnout426 okay never had the problem before tho

Ok. I'm not saying for certain lack of hardware-acceleration is the reason. Just saying that it might be.

[zalex108]

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Or https://www.youtube.com/testtube

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A Former User @burnout426 last edited by leocg

@burnout426

that's all i see in settings

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@zalex108 what am i supposed to see on this page

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@thegeneral

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@zalex108 then use which settings