<![CDATA[Videos randomly stopping in the browser]]>Symptom
Problem started like a month ago. Videos (Youtube, Twtich) played back in the browser randomly stop for no reason at all. I have to manually press the play button again to start them.
It's not an internet issue, the videos are not buffering. They just stop, like if someone had pressed the stop or pause button. It's very random, sometimes it doesn't happen for hours, than it just does it again.

Since then I have reinstalled the browser, cleared browser data (except passwords and autofill data), disabled all extensions - including Opera's own adblocker. None of it seemed to help. I have a fairly strong PC (i9, gtx 1060, 32 gigs of ram), and Windows 10 with up to date drivers. Other browsers don't seem to have the problem. I'm open to any help and suggestions. I love the browser, I have used it for years, I would prefer not to switch.

System Information
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36 OPR/85.0.4341.47 (en-US), ANGLE (NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0, D3D11-30.0.15.1215)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/55103/videos-randomly-stopping-in-the-browserRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 14:08:59 GMTThu, 07 Apr 2022 14:03:18 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:31:15 GMT]]>I am currently having this issue. I watch a show on one monitor and surf the internet on other monitors and every few times I open and close tabs Opera drops out the show. I have to reload the show and restart it each time it does this. Very annoying.

I watch shows on a variety of platforms and it happens to all platforms. I watch whatever the lowest quality is generally 360p or 720p as internet out here only goes up to 20mbps. I have snoozing tabs to save memory turned off, and I tried turned on neither seems to make a difference on the dropping out videos.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/354839https://forums.opera.com/post/354839Tue, 02 Jul 2024 23:31:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:26:54 GMT]]>@keseremen can you check if tab snoozing is enabled or disabled ?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/313759https://forums.opera.com/post/313759Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:26:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:45:37 GMT]]>Im having the exact problem.
It started the day Im posting this reply.
For me, it pauses every 0.6~ seconds. I need help how to fix it.
I dont want to switch into chrome for this

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/313518https://forums.opera.com/post/313518Sat, 17 Jun 2023 15:45:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Mon, 05 Jun 2023 06:22:00 GMT]]>@leocg https://www.boxplus.com/?channel=the-box will play with video and sound and after a while only sound no video , this problem has been ongoing updates will not work , only reloading will bring it back

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/312303https://forums.opera.com/post/312303Mon, 05 Jun 2023 06:22:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:55:07 GMT]]>I have no idea when and what fixed it, but this problem is gone for me for a long time now (more than a year for sure). I didn't have any hardware changes on my pc, so it had to be an automatic software update.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/312213https://forums.opera.com/post/312213Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:55:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sat, 03 Jun 2023 23:27:42 GMT]]>@leocg still happens, the problem hasn't been fixed yet.
If you need an example, type "terraria but calamity death mode is actually enjoyable?" on youtube and skip to 4:05.
The video will start to buffering. I don't know if can send the link or image of the problems, because I just created the account to report the bug, and haven't read the rules yet.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/312205https://forums.opera.com/post/312205Sat, 03 Jun 2023 23:27:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Wed, 17 May 2023 00:11:00 GMT]]>@pyrosu Any examples and steps to reproduce? Videos play fine here usually.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/310236https://forums.opera.com/post/310236Wed, 17 May 2023 00:11:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Tue, 16 May 2023 12:07:18 GMT]]>How comes this never got any attention to Opera so far?
This issue still exists to me as well, and seeing how this issue isn't solved yet, makes me wonder what Opera devs are doing...

Could we get a fix for this, or does anyone know how to solve this?
It's quite annoying to the point that people are transferring to other browsers than Opera...

Quite disappointing I must say.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/310212https://forums.opera.com/post/310212Tue, 16 May 2023 12:07:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:37 GMT]]>Sorry to dig up an old Topic - but this is happening again 🙂

Been going on now for a couple of weeks.

Windows 11 - 22H2 - 22621.675
Opera GX LVL4 (core: 91.0.4516.72)

Seems to be happening on Twitch when viewing videos with Codex avc1.64002A,mp4a.40.2
The Video freezes, sometimes for 5-10 sec, sometimes for up to 3 min.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/292027https://forums.opera.com/post/292027Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Fri, 13 May 2022 21:27:35 GMT]]>@kallenavn I'm still testing, it was very random for me. Thanks for your report!

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/281043https://forums.opera.com/post/281043Fri, 13 May 2022 21:27:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Fri, 13 May 2022 20:55:04 GMT]]>Just wanted to say that the latest Opera update fixed it for me.
So for my issue it started with one of the updates in March and was fixed with the latest update.
I hope you guys eventually get a fix from Opera as well.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/281040https://forums.opera.com/post/281040Fri, 13 May 2022 20:55:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Fri, 13 May 2022 20:32:27 GMT]]>Having the exact same issue on Opera GX. Super super annoying. Doesn't matter what website, as long as it's a video i'll get the same issue. Contemplating moving back to Chrome at this point.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/281039https://forums.opera.com/post/281039Fri, 13 May 2022 20:32:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:15:59 GMT]]>@kallenavn Thanks for your detailed description. Our problem is similar, but not exactly the same, although it seems very likely that they have a common cause. Please send your detailed bug report to the developers. I'm not sure they are reading the forums.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/279992https://forums.opera.com/post/279992Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:15:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:24:54 GMT]]>I have the same issue. It always stops within the first 4 minutes (depending on video length).
However for me its not random. It happens once for the first playback on each video site for each browser sesssion. Meaning if I go to Youtube and play any video, it will auto stop within the first 4 minutes. When I click play the video and any other video played on Youytube in that browser session will not stop until I close the browser and start a brand new session. Then it will happen again on the first video played in that new broswer session. If I go to other streaming providers the same will happen there. For example if I go to Youtube, get the issue and click play, then go to Dailymotion and play a video the first video on Dailymotion will also stop. And the same happens if I go to any of the other video host providers that any site may use. So its related to video playback and not site spesific.

This started to happen for me around end of March and I believe there were an update to Opera at the time however I dont have proof that the update is the cause. Might just be a coincident. Other browsers does not have this issue. I have also done all the steps that @B8X is listing to ensure it is Opera and not anything else. I have also tried to enable/disable lots of stuff in settings to see if anything helps.
I have also tested on two different computers and the same happens to both with the same behavior. Running Win 10 on both, however one is Pro and the other is Home edition.
I think its related to your Windows client because I do not get this when playing videos on my phone or tablet (both android) using Opera.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36 OPR/85.0.4341.75

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/279977https://forums.opera.com/post/279977Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:24:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:47:12 GMT]]>@b8x
Ok i did. I hope they'll fix it or they'll be aware of it. i don't want to go back to chrome or any other browser because they suck.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36 OPR/85.0.4341.47 (tr-TR), ANGLE (Google, Vulkan 1.2.0 (SwiftShader Device (Subzero) (0x0000C0DE)), SwiftShader driver-5.0.0)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278777https://forums.opera.com/post/278777Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:47:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sun, 10 Apr 2022 15:05:33 GMT]]>@defaultlife It's very very strange. I was anxious that it might be a problem just on my end, but I guess not. Thanks for the info, let's hope for a quick fix! Besides this forum thread I have also made a bug report to the devs, I think it's important that you do the same.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278732https://forums.opera.com/post/278732Sun, 10 Apr 2022 15:05:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Videos randomly stopping in the browser on Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:01:46 GMT]]>@b8x
The same thing happens to me. It's not caused by my Internet. A very disturbing situation. Youtube, Rumble, Twitter doesn't matter. If this continues, I will have to change the Opera I have been using for many years. Please find a solution.
Thanks

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/278699https://forums.opera.com/post/278699Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:01:46 GMT