Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!
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A Former User last edited by
Thanks
i just did install stand alone version of Opera 66.videos play OK!
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
There are some video and audio fixes in general and for Win7 in Opera Developer 69.0.3623.0 at https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/03/opera-69-0-3623-0-developer-update/ if you want to test before they reach beta and stable.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
New Opera 67 build with fixes for audio and video. https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2020/03/opera-67-0-3575-79-stable-update/
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Indianabond last edited by
I have the same problem (both videos and gifs in Facebook), on both my laptop and my desktop (one is Windows 7, the others Windows 10). Both have updated versions of Opera (67.0.3575.115), and on both Opera is the default browser. I am getting tired of having to copy the video link to Chrome all of the time.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@Indianabond Goto the URL
opera://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode, disable the flag, relaunch Opera and try again. If that doesn't help, goto the URLopera://settings/system, disable hardware acceleration, restart Opera and try again. If that doesn't help either, revert both settings to default.Goto https://html5test.com and check h.264 support under "Video" and check aac support under "Audio". Also, under "Streaming", expand the video and audio codecs and check h.264 and aac there too. If your Opera doesn't show support, and you're using an "N" edition of Windows 7 or Windows 10, you'll need the Windows Media Feature Pack. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack for Windows 10 and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16546 for Windows 7.
You'll also want to check support for DRM. Goto https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm and make sure the video plays. Also, under the video, make sure MSE and EME are supported. For EME, you want to see "Widevine" supported. For MSE, you want to see "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42c00d" supported at the least.
Also, test with Opera Beta and Opera Developer at https://www.opera.com/download to see how they work. Maybe it's a bug that's already fixed.
Also, if you want to compare with other browsers, test with Vivald. It's a good comparison when it comes to testing video and audio support. Both Vivaldi and Opera uses the Windows Media Foundation for support for h.264 and aac. If Vivaldi doesn't work either, it's likely some issue on your system. Chrome uses its built-in ffmpeg support for h.265 and aac, so it's not a good comparison.
Finally, sometimes, a windows update can break support on your system. If video playback just recently broke in Opera, try an older version. If you remember that older version working fine and it no longer does, it's probably some Windows update that broke things.
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A Former User last edited by
Problem persists. Cannot play website embedded videos. I installed latest 'fix' Opera 67.0.3575.79 Stable update, but no change. HELP!!!! Or will Opera continue to be semi-useless?
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tryinggx last edited by
I have the same problem. Using Opera GX 71.0.3770.441
I have Windows 7 "N".
The link for the "Windows Media Feature Pack" for windows 7 does not exist anymore, and I cannot find it on the microsoft site anywhere.
Every other youtube video doesn't play. streams don't work, other video sites don't work.
A "gaming browser" that doesn't play gaming videos is kinda useless.
How come niche browser like Slimjet and Iron play all videos no probs? If it's about too expensive license, how can they afford it? The market share of Opera should be quite bigger than those two combined.It looked promising because no other browser I have seen offers as strict a processing resource hogging clamp (most browsers are absolutely insane, worst offender being Mozilla - ok that's true of all of their products, seems they just don't care),
but I guess I'll have to go back to Slimjet, which has at least periodic memory optimization. And it "just works" w.r.t. videos. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@tryinggx said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:
The link for the "Windows Media Feature Pack" for windows 7 does not exist anymore, and I cannot find it on the microsoft site anywhere.
Search the net for Windows6.1-KB968211-x86-RefreshPkg.msu or Windows6.1-KB968211-x64-RefreshPkg.msu depending on whether you have 32-bit Win7 or 64-bit Win7.
Or, goto https://web.archive.org/web/20200207121551/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16546, scroll down, click "Download", check the box for the one you need and click "next". See if the download from the archive works.
Or, direct downloads from the archive:
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tryinggx last edited by
Thanks for digging that out. I was under the impression the archive does not keep binary files from websites.
I get error 0x8007065e (data of this type not supported) when trying to execute it, though.
Supposed fixes I've found suggest fumbling with the windows update system and waiting some magic number of minutes in between some of the steps, borders on gambling as unspecific as that is to what's really going on behind the scenes...
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@tryinggx said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:
I was under the impression the archive does not keep binary files from websites.
Sometimes I've gotten lucky, so I just took a chance.
I get error 0x8007065e
Most likely the archive has corrupted the files. I'll see if I can find them somewhere else.
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tryinggx last edited by
If there was a way to find out whether some sort of MS CD / DVD of the past contained such update diles, as there sometimes were, and knew the name of the CD (like MSDN year/month whatever),
then one could look on archive org where they host old CD / DVD images, which seems separate from the websites archiving.
I once found an MSDN DVD iso image with some old .NET installer that I needed for something, there.
Although that little update... vs. some whole service pack... I guess unlikely. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
The 64-bit download is at https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Media-Feature-Pack-for-Windows-7-N-and-Windows-7-KN.shtml. Even though it's not from a Microsoft site, the download seems legit.
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tryinggx last edited by
Hey,
I actually got to trying it out now,
seems to work! After installing that pack for Windows N on my win7 64bit, restarting, now! I.e. videos, and whole websites, that did not work before, now work.
Thanks!
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Jaanis last edited by
I cannot play most of the videos on Opera as well, too. (Youtube is working though.) For example, I tried videos on Twitter and bbc.com.
I can watch the videos on Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi all right.
At https://html5test.com I can see that the difference between Opera and other browsers is the "No" for H.264 support and AAC support. (There is "No" for H.265 support and MPEG-4 ASP support as well, but none of my browsers have that anyway, so that's probably not the problem.)
I have disabled "Use hardware acceleration when available" and enabled "Override software rendering list", and I cannot find the flag "disable-accelerated-video-decode".
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Jaanis last edited by
@leocg said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:
@jaanis Maybe you have a N version of Windows?
No, it's Linux Mint 20.1. (I remembered that I need to add this after posting, but I couldn't edit while the post was waiting for approval.)
