@tylerntd Please open vivaldi://components , have look at Widevine section on bottom of the page and press Update button. Now tell me the version you see. Try reinstalling of Vivaldi 2.8 with Installer from https://vivaldi.com/de/download/.

Google is being a douchewaffle about this because people use it to play Google ads automatically. PLEASE add a feature to get rid of autoplay. I hate it and I hate using shitty third party extensions.

@Janjoore Fine Thanks for your feedback. Let me tag the thread as Resolved.

@ferryman Welcome to the forums and enjoy Vivaldi Browser Vivaldi Browser Help Center is available by hitting F1 key Take your time to read the Community Code of Conduct It's the Amazon issue, not Vivaldi. Searching before posting is very practical and recommended. Sorry for all the inconvenience caused.

Had same problem, couldn't figure out.... Deleted cookies ("Lock" icon to the left of urlfield) - voilá! (Reason #2: ...seemed that Amazon Prime was having some sort of bad morning also as it was doing the same on all my browsers... (?)

@seefer Hi, test Picard, Treadstone now and they play fine, too. I use 2.11.1811.28 snapshot but should not make any difference. Is it may be a location problem, I stream in Germany. Cheers, mib

@UserBerlin und immer schön den Featurerequest upvoten

@rdreammaker Thanks a mil for sharing these helpful insights. It's very awkward indeed. In case this issue happens again in your "Primary" browser as well as in your fresh install, please file a bug report so we can try to reproduce it and fix it.

@sucrose That doesn't include that the supplier supports everyone. The solution is still legit.

@gaelle @Myliak I already reported this a while ago, but it was marked as CNR (VB-50885). The same thing can also happen by tiling the page.

It's possible to add Fullscreen (useful when you want to see something in full screen for a while and then return to the window), backward/forward 5sec (maybe time to the end of the video too) and transparency 50% on pop out video?

I am still frustrated this issue, but I installed a free utility on Source Forge called Equalizer APO. The default configuration file reduces the volume, but it is a simple text file edit to change the pre-amp setting from -6db to +16 db (or whatever you want). That seems to have solved the problem for me, but it would still be good to have a shortcut in Vivaldi to increase/decrease the volume because not all videos are alike — a few are too loud, while most are too quiet on my hardware (a ProLite monitor with 2 x 1W built-in speakers).

@gwen-dragon My Chrome is Version 70.0.3538.102 (Official Build) (64-bit) and works fine My Firefox is 63.0.3 (64-bit) and works fine My Vivaldi has Chrome engine Chrome/71.0.3578.45 Safari/537.36 and does not Full Screen Video streams for NFL, but does work on Youtube. Suspect a combination of the particular Chrome and the particular video player they use at NFL.

I had the same issue and found the solution on the Mac forum. Head to this link: chrome://flags/#force-color-profile Then change the option for "Force Color Profile" (the first choice on the list) to either RGB or scRGB linear to fix the issue. You will have to restart vivaldi before you can test either option. For me I ended up using "scRGB linear" to fix the issue. The error occurred after a GPU driver update on an HP 15.6 with AMD Ryzen 3 CPU and AMD Radeon Vega 3 GPU, so updating the driver may or may not work.

@mark0a Indeed! On my Acer Swift 1, running Neon User Edition 5.15.5, using Chromium with the patch and with the hardware video decoding flag enabled, CPU utilization is about 25% playing "Costa Rica in 4k" from Youtube at 1080p60, and it's breathtakingly smooth. I tried to compare it to Vivaldi itself, but I could not get any videos to play at all in Vivaldi... it just kept saying a problem had occurred (very helpful, Youtube, thanks!). I am sure I can get it figured out, but for now, I just disabled the hardware decoding flag in Chromium, restarted the browser, and viewed the video again. This time, CPU utilization shot up to nearly 100%, and there were visible hitches and stutters as it dropped frames here and there, and as you might guess when CPU is near-maxed, trying to perform any other task while streaming was hopeless. If I was using it on battery, using that much CPU would make it a very short session. Since that's the main use for this PC, it's quite limiting. Specs on the PC are: Pentium N4200 CPU (4 core, no HT), 4GB RAM, Intel integrated graphics HD505 with the modesetting driver, Ubuntu kernel 5.0.0-16, Chromium 75.0.3770.18 (Developer build) from the saiarcot895 PPA. I don't see any harm in including the code to enable this. That alone does not enable hardware decoding, as the feature is still turned off by default, and remains so unless the user specifically enables it with a flag, as for any other experimental feature.

Related to icon-for-picture-in-picture-video-in-floating-window.

@zeiglerxz That is a great idea! The android smartphone has a similar feature: When it's playing music, the usual set of buttons (previous song, stop, next song) is displayed on the lock screen and on the notification bar (I don't know what it's called). On the web browser, I'm often annoyed by how cumbersome it is to stop the sound from a tab when I have many tabs: Brows the tabbar to determine which tab is making the sound. Activate the tab and hit the stop button. You could say that I could hit the loud-speaker icon on the tab instead of step 2, but that would just shut the sound up without stopping the playing, which wastes some CPU resource.

@notorious Yeah. Vivaldi doesn't use native Windows elements to build the UI. That would make development take five to ten times as long.

@titanium Then you have to help reducing stupidity in the world. If you think a feature is useful and missing in Vivaldi, please make a request. How to make a feature request for Vivaldi If you think your problem can be solved by a missing feature, please add a request at https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/113/feature-requests .