Any video on the ufcfightpass.com site stopped playing

[samotxave]

samotxave last edited by leocg

Hello. After an unknown update, any video on the ufcfightpass.com site stopped playing. All that can be rebuffed, it remains only to reset all settings or reinstall the opera. What can you try? The rest of the sites has no problems.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Opera GX on macOS or Windows or iOS or Android, and what version of that OS?

[samotxave]

samotxave @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Any video on the ufcfightpass.com site stopped playing:

Opera GX on macOS or Windows or iOS or Android, and what version of that OS?

Windows 11

[burnout426]

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Is that an "N" edition of your Windows 11 Home/Pro?

What does https://html5test.com/ say for h.264, vp8, vp9 video support? What does it say for aac, mp3, vorbis, and opus support?

What does it say below the video at https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm for MSE and EME support? Also, does the video play and play with audio?

Any difference with hardware acceleration disabled at the URL opera://settings/system?

Any difference in a standalone installation?

Any difference if you close Opera, open up a command prompt, and start Opera like this?:

"C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

(Adjust path to your launcher.exe by looking at the "install" path at the URL opera://about. Try with the standalone installation's launcher.exe too.)

If you have Opera's VPN on, try with it off. Same with extensions and Opera's adblocker. If you have Lucid Mode on at the URL opera://settings/lucidMode, turn it off.

[samotxave]

samotxave @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thanks, nothing worked except running with "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

What is the reason?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @samotxave last edited by

@samotxave said in Any video on the ufcfightpass.com site stopped playing:

What is the reason?

The site probably doesn't officially support Opera. So, when the site detects a browser that's not officially supported, it probably gives that browser crappy code. Setting the user-agent to what Chrome uses tricks the site's browser detection.

You can modify the properties in Opera's shortcuts to change the launcher.exe command to pass the --user-agent setting to Opera if you want.

Or, you can install https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher-5/, pin its icon to the address bar, click the icon, choose edit (the pencil icon), and set your user agent string there. That way, you don't have to modify Opera's shortcuts. (The extension's default-provide strings are old, which is why you use the pencil icon to manually set a newer one.)