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    • DefaultLife
      DefaultLife @B8X last edited by

      @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)

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      • Kallenavn
        Kallenavn last edited by

        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

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        • B8X
          B8X @Kallenavn last edited by

          @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.

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          • certs
            certs last edited by

            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.

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            • Kallenavn
              Kallenavn last edited by

              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.

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              • B8X
                B8X @Kallenavn last edited by B8X

                @kallenavn I'm still testing, it was very random for me. Thanks for your report!

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                • lordlethris
                  lordlethris last edited by

                  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.

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                  • Pyrosu
                    Pyrosu last edited by

                    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.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Pyrosu last edited by

                      @pyrosu Any examples and steps to reproduce? Videos play fine here usually.

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                      • stardust-dragon
                        stardust-dragon @leocg last edited by

                        @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.

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                        • B8X
                          B8X last edited by

                          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.

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                          • rmac
                            rmac @leocg last edited by

                            @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

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                            • KESEREMEN
                              KESEREMEN last edited by

                              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

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                              • rmac
                                rmac @KESEREMEN last edited by

                                @keseremen can you check if tab snoozing is enabled or disabled ?

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                                • MountainGuardian
                                  MountainGuardian last edited by

                                  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.

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