web based media has no sound in Opera
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rhbourdeau last edited by
I have experienced this problem more than once in the past, and I am now experiencing it again.
About 3 days ago I was listening to music on MixCloud.com through opera, as I have been for years. Opera is my main browser, though I use many others as well. Suddenly the music stopped. it shows as playing, but no sounds are emitted.
I receive my usual email notification sounds from Outlook. I opened Chrome to the same site, works fine.
I accessed the Windows 10 Volume Mixer which can have app-specific audio controls, no problems there.
The Opera "Additional Content Settings - Sound" -> nothing restrictive there.I've explored all the possibilities mentioned in this thread. Nothing.
My opera://media-internals display looks identical to that of john-phd, with AudioServiceLaunchOnStartup = "Disabled" whatever that implies.
It's pretty weird that one day I'm booming along then whammo, Opera is silent with nothing to correct it.
I like Opera, but I gotta admit that I'm tempted to shift over to Brave as my primary browser, merely because it's working and I can just reopen my 110 tabs there and be off and running again. I haven't seen any real solutions on the web pertaining to this reoccuring problem. sad face.
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john-phd last edited by@bblack4jc This is an easy fix if it works. However, my problem seems to be intrinsic to this browser. The "usual" methods don't work. I may or may not have mentioned your fix already in my thread, but I have done everything including going into the actual code of Opera as much as I am able to to find anything addressing this......
the closest I found was a post from 2011 or 2012, where developer options in Opera had a line (among thousands of lines) to enable sound. This line doesn't exist in new versions I guess. I dislike code for the most part, but I am comfortable tinkering around in it.
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Monocrash last edited by
I'm not sure if this will help for all, but its worth a shot.
I've had the same audio issue for a bit, after my computer blue-screened and had to reset. I had cleared out my %temp% files, and I had manually ended the process on Task Manager. If you scroll down on TM, there should be one that says "Opera GX Browser". I ended the process, opened up OGX again, and noticed the sound had returned.
Like I said, this may not work for all, but it is worth a shot. Apologies if this does not work, I am not specialized in this type of stuff. -
VegardB last edited by
@bblack4jc Yep! That was exactly it! Thank's for taking the time going thru seemingly endless settings and coming up with a solution to this (endless) problem. Again, thank you!
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NH2022 last edited by
@john-phd I've had similar problems with my Opera sound playback so I wanted to share what worked for me in solving it. You mentioned having multiple audio outputs and I had ended up with a similar situation when messing around with a selection of audio software and virtual audio cables and the like.
My opera wasn't showing up in the standard Windows volume mixer when sound should have been playing, so I went to the Microsoft Store and installed 'Ear Trumpet' as a 3rd party alternative. Once launched, I expanded the list of sound sources and I could see my Opera sound was being directed to something other than my main speakers, hence no output. Right-clicking on the Opera icon in that list and then clicking the icon with 2 sideways arrows allows you to redirect the output to whatever source you want. In my case it now works again just great, and I can see it in the Windows volume mixer as well once again, so there's no need to keep Ear Trumpet installed if you don't want to.
Hopefully a similar easy fix might have been at the root of your own issue? Or anyone else who stumbles upon this thread looking for answers.
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ColdWaffle5 last edited by
@john-phd I really wish the service were a lot better, It seems like you said everything at least three times. I am having this problem, but as much as I love Opera, I'm just going to have to go back to Google Chrome. It's a shame nothing came of this thread.
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HumanTraffic last edited by
@coldwaffle5 yea I all but forgot about Opera, it was short lived anyway, I probably used it for about a year or two. Try using Vivaldi instead, it kinda looks like Opera, however it has a lot more options and settings.
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john-phd last edited by
@sgunhouse said in web based media has no sound in Opera:
@scav23 In one of these threads I pointed out to people that Windows is capable of adjusting volume for each program separately, and that people need to check Volume Control and see if this is their problem.
-- I know right? It's as if the above (exhaustive) thread was not read. I think I keep track of this for a personal experiment to see what people come up with, and to see if it's ever resolved. It was once resolved, it is somehwere above, in 2011ish, where there was a code hack. It's mystifying how this even happens.
Kind of like my thread on Madagascar 3 in ROKU. It can be traced to like 2008 or 9. Still unresolved. Also unresolved is the Samsung S series light issue. The light is "in use" so the camera and well, nothing works. That goes back to 2006. My father in law was spot on that they don't write new code, they just recycled old bad code and never fix anything.
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DerrekTilbury last edited by
@leocg dude theres no steps to reproduce and its any website with any sound. its not just him and what setps do you want man? play video no sound thats all we know because we did nothing to cause it it just had no sound suddenly multiple times idk how it got fixed. it was almost a month one time
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DerrekTilbury last edited by
@sgunhouse then its a problem with opera because now that i look there i have steam and chrome open and they show up with a volume control but opera is open too and it isnt there. like 5 different time it happened and idk how it was fixed, one time was almost a month
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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@derrektilbury Was Opera supposed to be plsying a sound when you looked? If there hasn't been a sound playing it shouldn't show.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@derrektilbury There are always steps to reproduce a problem.
So if you go to,,for example, to YouTube and start playing a video there will be no sound?
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Jaabadaa last edited by
Hi everybody!
john-phd: Respect :-)))
All of a sudden I got sound issues in Opera (again), so I landed here.
My problem is, I can play one video and then Opera stops. I have to close it, open it again, then I am able to play one video and so on...
After fiddling around and reading this thread, I remembered that I had a similiar problem with Opera before and it disappeared after sometime, but do not remember how (maybe another update).
But I now I remembered my workaround
Opera has it's own Task Manger, it can be opened with Shift-Esc on Windows. There you'll find something like an Audio Helper Process (in german it's called Hilfsprozess: Audio Service). So if I kill this process, the sound plays immediately again - for the next video...
Maybe someone else has some futher insights...
Best regards
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rhbourdeau last edited by
@leocg You are suggesting a diagnostic test, not steps for reproducing the problem. There are not always steps for reproducing a problem. In particular this problem with Opera crops up, and then it's not working. Until you can get it working again, exactly how does one attempt to reproduce the steps that led to it mysteriously no-longer working. When I reported my version of the problem, I explained that yes the problem was exclusive to Opera.
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blackbird71 last edited by blackbird71@rhbourdeau said in web based media has no sound in Opera:
@leocg You are suggesting a diagnostic test, not steps for reproducing the problem. There are not always steps for reproducing a problem. In particular this problem with Opera crops up, and then it's not working. Until you can get it working again, exactly how does one attempt to reproduce the steps that led to it mysteriously no-longer working. When I reported my version of the problem, I explained that yes the problem was exclusive to Opera.
In tracing down the cause of a bug in anything, a critical first step is to reliably reproduce the steps to failure on other identical or similar equipment. This is why many software makers use their 'helps' forums as mechanisms for other users to confirm/not-confirm a reported failure mode before committing their own costly resources to resolving the true cause. If a failure cannot be reliably reproduced by the original reporter and cannot be confirmed in detail by other users, then it will be highly unlikely that a developer/troubleshooter will be able to recreate that problem in the lab either.
If the problem cannot be duplicated by a dev/TS person, the only alternative solution mechanism is an in-depth analysis of all the relevant code sections (assuming which ones are even relevant), as well as any possible other code pathways that impact in any way upon the functionality of the relevant code operations. Such analysis would have to account for all the permutations and combinations of timings, handshakings, and potential interactions of all the hardware, system OS (and settings), drivers, and supporting 3rd-party software that "touches" upon the problematic signals or their paths. All that would have to be done with no confirmable way to verify the problem has been solved if a possible cause is found, since there is no reproduceable way to create the problem in the first place.
In most cases, nonreproducible problems justifiably get the least amount of dev/TS attention since they usually are by far the most expensive and resource-intensive to resolve. Unless the numbers of sufferers are large enough, it is simply more cost effective to devote one's limited resources to problems that are reproducible. It is a harsh reality, but it is reality nonetheless. This is why there is such a great focus in support forums upon establishing reproducibility of a problem (which usually means a lot of necessary nitty-gritty detail and even test/settings trials that many users find annoying).
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@rhbourdeau I didn't make any suggestions. I only asked a question to try to understand the problem because the few people having the issue are not even capable of following simple instructions that exist to help people to try to understand the problems and provide possible solutions for them.
