YouTube won't play after latest upgrade

[mountaincatbob]

mountaincatbob last edited by

Opera upgrades are usually smooth and seamless, but his time YouTube videos will not play. I get an error message telling me to try again later. I upgraded to the latest Flash player, disabled all plugins except Flash, deleted Flash caches & reinstalled Flash, uninstalled and reinstalled Opera, and was finally reduced to installing Chrome, which plays videos just fine.

Are there any suggestions on how I can get Opera to play YouTube videos? Vimeo plays just fine, but YouTube returns an error message.

[linuxmint7]

linuxmint7 last edited by

What error message ?.

What version of Opera are you running ('Menu / Help / About Opera' or 'Menu / About Opera') ?.

[mountaincatbob]

mountaincatbob last edited by

The error message in the YouTube window: "An error occurred, please try again later. Learn More"

Version: 24.0.1558.61 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 7 64-bit (WoW64)

[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.

[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?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

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

[mountaincatbob]

mountaincatbob last edited by

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

[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).

[mountaincatbob]

mountaincatbob last edited by

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

[linuxmint7]

linuxmint7 last edited by

Opera Turbo enabled perchance ?.

[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)

[mountaincatbob]

mountaincatbob last edited by

Turbo is disabled.

[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.

[hitanykey]

hitanykey last edited by

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

[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?

[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