Videos Fail To Play Much Of The Time!
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What is the deal with Vivaldi not playing videos, totally hit or miss. Sometimes it will even play some videos on a site, yet other videos on the same site it will not. I find myself constantly switching back to Opera or Safari, just to watch a video.
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Same issue here, Im very happy with all the functionality of the browser but have to switch to chrome to play videos. The will just not load in Vivaldi. Anyone have a clue whats going on here ?
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Same problem here!
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@Rascasse I'm glad that things are working for you at the moment. However, I still can't stress enough that changing flags should always be done with caution. If you're running into any problems with Vivaldi, reverting any flags that you changed should be one of the first things that you do.
By the way, I speak from experience. The GPU on my system was blacklisted as well and I too am having issues with video playback. Software rendering works fine in Chrome but not in Vivaldi. What I think is going on is that Vivaldi lacks the codecs for playing H.264 video internally and falls back on the system to do it, and something is breaking in the process. Enabling hardware acceleration "fixes" this but (for me) also causes serious issues with scrolling on some sites. Your level of breakage may vary.
As for the GPU blacklist issue, keep in mind that your GPU (usually) got blacklisted for a good reason. If you do choose to override the blacklist, start first with the
vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
flag, and nothing else.The Chromium developers are in the process of reworking the GPU stack but I'm not tracking the changes. Their changes should be transparent but "stuff" happens. A few months ago, if you were running into strange rendering issues, turning hardware acceleration off was often a viable temporary workaround. (i.e. you effectively blacklisted your own system) Ideally, things should work fine both with hardware acceleration and with software-based rendering. Right now, some of us are in a sad state where neither is working properly.
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