Playing videos not possible on Windows [again]
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Hi,
in the current builds for windows there's the playback of videos is sometimes not possible. Please check this link:
http://www.golem.de/news/daedalic-entertainment-erster-blick-auf-die-saeulen-der-erde-1611-124299.htmlSteps to reproduce:
- click the provided link
- the page loads and a thumbnail of the video will be displayed
- click on the video thumbnail
- A message gets dispayed "Video cannot be loaded"
I use Windows 10 Enterprise and the 32 bit version of vivdaldi and I tried already:
- installing flash
- installing windows media feature pack
- I tried also another browser called Iridium which is based on chromium with the same behaviour
- Checked the playback of the video in Chrome -> no error
No success so far. Who can help?
Thank you!
Alex -
Hi!
Thanks for your answer. My answers to your questions:
- Vivaldi: 1.5.655.3
- No
- Yes looks like it: accelerated_vpx_decode was deactivated.
Seems like the following chromium bugs are responsible for that:
- VPx decoding is too slow on Intel Broadwell, Skylake, and CherryView: 616318
- Accelerated VPx decoding is hanging on some videos.: 654111
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Flash: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Video Encode: Hardware accelerated
VPx Video Decode: Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
Driver Bug Workarounds
clear_uniforms_before_first_program_use
disable_discard_framebuffer
disable_framebuffer_cmaa
exit_on_context_lost
force_cube_complete
msaa_is_slow
scalarize_vec_and_mat_constructor_args
texsubimage_faster_than_teximage- Activated
So the conclustion is, without the GPU hardware acceleration activated no video playback?
Thanks!
Alex -
@Gwen-Dragon Thank you! I checked Wikipedia for VP8 ant it should be supported by Chromium and thus by Vivaldi too.
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The mentioned video is a MP4 .h264 video. VPx is not needed for those at all.
I did not jump through the burning hoops to download and analyze what the exact settings in the h264 are, but I assume they tinkered around a bit with that.@alexthegreat can you check on http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html if the h264 video works?
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@QuHno : No it's not working. I just see an empty video player. Thank you!
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@Gwen-Dragon Thank you again! I disabled both options but without success. I understand that some errors can be fixed by the Vivaldi team if they are related to chromium. And I think there some hints that this could be the case, because in the Iridium browser the videos are also not working. But there's a new snapshot for Vivaldi available. I will try this now.
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@alexthegreat If installing the newer version that does not help, maybe installing the http://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm K-lite codec pack Basic (no need for the other ones) might help. I don't recommend installing codecs lightly, because they might break some other things, but if nothing else helps, it might be worth a try. For example Win7 lacks some of the more advanced codecs W10 has included and for some users installing that pack helped.
Other than that: Chrome can't be used for a fair comparison because it has it's own codecs compiled in.
Vivaldi can't do that for now because of the quite prohibitive license fees the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA wants to have. -
@Gwen-Dragon Yes they are playing well. Thanks!
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