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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Opera 28.0.1750.48

      HTML5 videos on kotaku.com say this "We've detected that your device or browser does not support this HTML5 format video. Please watch on the most recent generation device and browser."

      Of course they work in real Chrome.

      Anyone else getting this message?

      Here's a kotaku story with a video that won't play on Opera for me.

      http://kotaku.com/watch-grand-theft-auto-v-on-pc-running-at-60-fps-1695225844

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        After doing some more testing my Windows 7 64bit machine, these videos play in that install of Opera. But they do not work on this XP Pro 32bit machine.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          So I upgraded my work PC to Vista Business 32bit from XP Pro and still get the same issue with Opera 30.0.1835.125

          Of course these videos work in real Chrome AND in Firefox.

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          • lando242
            lando242 last edited by

            Generally if the videos don't play its because Opera can't find a codec on your machine to play them. Newer versions of Windows have these codecs already installed but older ones don't. You might try installing something like FFDShow and see if that fixes it.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              First I have FFDShow installed, second it has nothing to do with HTML5 video.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffdshow

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              • lando242
                lando242 last edited by

                Sure it does. Its a H.264 decoder. Many people have reported problems with HTML5 videos encoded with H.264 not working with Opera. This was a longstanding problem with the HTML5 player on YouTube. I'm sorry it didn't fix you problem but its still relevant.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  Afaik you need at least Win7 for html5 to work in Opera.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    Afaik you need at least Win7 for html5 to work in Opera.

                    Yeah it seems that way.

                    Interesting that actual Chrome works though. I don't understand why the Opera devs would remove that capability.

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                      I don't understand why the Opera devs would remove that capability.

                      They never implemented it so they couldn't remove it. Vista didn't support h264 natively, it was added later trough Windows Update.

                      Windows 7 was the first Windows to support h264 natively and Opera can only play html5 videos if it uses a format and a codec that Windows supports natively.

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