I have the same problem since this morning. Worked fine last night, but now YouTube and Vodlocker (and a few others I tried) have a stuttering sound, like an FM station that can't stay in place (loud,soft,loud,soft). Thinking my speakers were dead I tried CD+DVD, but they work just fine, also no sound issues with IE and Firefox.

I have Opera version 32.0.1948.25 installed, though I don't know when the latest version was updated, because it's done automatically (so don't know if it was done somewhere between last night and this morning).

I work with Windows Vista (I know, I know, ... deep sigh) but since 2 other browsers work just fine, I do have the feeling it's Opera related.

Afterthought: I did however update DIVX this morning, so maybe it's related to that?

Any ideas, any help would be appreciated...

GO into your Opera profile folder (you can find its location in Opera menu > About Opera) and delete any files in that direction that start with 'session'. There should be 3 or 4 of them. beware that this will clear any web pages that were left open the last time you exited Opera. Did that help with the slowness?

I keep seeing this solution given for the slowness, but I don't HAVE any folders that start with session or have the word session in them. Any other options? Could they have a different name? I work with Windows Vista, I know that more and more updates don't bother to involve Vista-users anymore.