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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      Download ppapi flash from here. After the installation, go to opera:plugins (type it on the address bar an press enter) and disable the npapi flash.

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      • mountaincatbob
        mountaincatbob last edited by

        Thank you for the help! Unfortunately, this did not resolve the issue. Downloaded ppapi and disabled npapi.

        More info:
        Just played a 1080 YouTube video in Chrome and have been monitoring the connection speed--about 55Mbps. It appears that the video is attempting to buffer instead of starting right away and maybe times out(?). There is no data transfer while Opera attempts to buffer. Also, I can place the mouse pointer along the YouTube time slider and get tiny pop-ups of the video.

        Any ideas?

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

          Try emptying Opera's cache and also Windows %temp%.

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          • mountaincatbob
            mountaincatbob last edited by

            Caches & temp folders all emptied and browser restarted--still no workie.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Do you use any extension? One could be interfering. Try disabling them at menu Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+E).

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              • mountaincatbob
                mountaincatbob last edited by

                Tried that to start, and double checked again. No extensions or plugins except flash.

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                • linuxmint7
                  linuxmint7 last edited by

                  Opera Turbo enabled perchance ?.

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                  • mountaincatbob
                    mountaincatbob last edited by

                    Also downloaded the developer pack and it would not play YouTube either--also disabled npapi in this version.

                    Version: 25.0.1614.5 - Opera is up to date

                    Update stream: developer

                    System: Windows 7 64-bit (WoW64)

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                    • mountaincatbob
                      mountaincatbob last edited by

                      Turbo is disabled.

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                      • spynylcracka
                        spynylcracka last edited by

                        Have you tried YouTube HTML5 player? you can get it here https://www.youtube.com/html5 Also you can get the Magic Actions for you tube extension and force YouTube to play all videos in HTML5 format.

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                        • hitanykey
                          hitanykey last edited by

                          Have you tried right clicking on a video, going to settings and disabling acceleration?

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                          • mountaincatbob
                            mountaincatbob last edited by

                            Yes, hardware acceleration is disabled--tried it both ways, but usually keep this disabled.
                            My laptop works just fine with version 12.17.

                            Perhaps I should uninstall all versions of Opera, delete plugins, clear the caches, remove registry entries and reinstall one of the earlier versions. Any suggestions along those lines of thinking?

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              11.63 - fine. Though it seems some sites could overshoot the compatibility in certain future.
                              I'm running it on XP 😎

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