Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!

[tryinggx]

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]

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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.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tryinggx last edited by

@tryinggx Not sure.

[tryinggx]

tryinggx last edited by

Thanks for finding that! I'll try it out.

[tryinggx]

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!

[Jaanis]

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".

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jaanis last edited by

@jaanis Maybe you have a N version of Windows?

[Jaanis]

Jaanis @leocg 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.)

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Jaanis last edited by

@jaanis Well, you posted in a topic in Opera for Windows forum. There's a topic regarding it in Opera for Linux forum, with (possible) solutions for that issue.

[Jaanis]

Jaanis @leocg last edited by Jaanis

@leocg said in Opera cannot play videos- almost Any videos!:

@jaanis Well, you posted in a topic in Opera for Windows forum. There's a topic regarding it in Opera for Linux forum, with (possible) solutions for that issue.

OK, thanks, I'll search for that one then. I just found this thread by Google.

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For Linux:

• https://forums.opera.com/topic/42185/the-videos-don-t-play-topic
• https://forums.opera.com/topic/37539/solving-the-problem-of-the-opera-browser-with-video-playback-in-ubuntu-and-similar-distributions-linux-mint-kde-neon

[clafix]

clafix last edited by

I had same issue. I changed just one flag:
opera://flags/#use-angle - from value "Default" to value "OpenGL".
And it helped me, now h.264 video playing correctly!
Test video: http://demo.nimius.net/video_test/
Opera v81.0.4196.60 stable.