Videos not playing + browser needs manual restart a lot
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Update on the issue: It is a known issue, its a problem with old Mac machines, we'll investigate further, as to what is causing the issue, and hopefully get a fix out, but its doubtfull it will be out in time for 1.5. Thanks for the report!
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@Aronand Thank you. And yes please! I really really hope so!
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@silv_ Oh hey. that actually worked! Thank you
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@Aronand I've got the same problem on my 27" iMac
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iMac11,3
Intel Core i3 3,2 GHz
16gb DDR3 1333 MHz
ATI Radeon HD 5670 512mb
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hmm, can't seem to edit my previous comment, but I wanted to add the following, alas, setting the flag to ignore gpu render list, didn't solve it for me...
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First, 1.6 is great. Thanks. But I have the same trouble. I can't play many videos. Some videos on NY Times "hang." In other sites "Error playing file: source not supported." Some youtube files have to be restarted. I have to keep a copy of Safari open and paste URLs. I wish that there were a way to fix this. Vivaldi is a great browser!
OS: 1o.11.6 (El Capitan)
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro6,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5
Processor Speed: 3.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 10 MB
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I have this exact same problem and it is driving me slowly mad. I encounter it on a Hackintoshed ThinkPad (OSX 10.11.6 and a NVidia Quadro 1000M, running Vivaldi 1.6.689.40) and on my Mac Pro (Early 2009 (MacPro4,1), NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, OSX 10.11.6, Vivaldi 1.7.715.3).
Tellingly, it does NOT occur on my iMac workstation at work (Late 2013 edition, iMac14,2, NVidia GeForce GT 755, OSX 10.11.6, Vivaldi 1.6.689.40).
The problem does not occur in any current version of Opera, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox on any of these three computers. It's only Vivaldi, and only on those two systems.
If there's any testing necessary for this that would help make a fix happen more quickly, please let me know. As you might guess from the version number, I test prereleases on my Mac Pro regularly.
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To clarify - the problem I'm referring to is that reported by Gorom. Tried all those videos. Have also occasionally tested with raw Vivaldi profiles, although not as often (and not with those specific videos, but with other videos on Twitter that show the same effect).
I even at one point tried copying my profile from my iMac wholesale to my Mac Pro and tried a Twitter video using that. No such luck.
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And for good measure: vivaldi:gpu output of the affected Mac Pro
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Hi,
Just want to share my experience with this problem.
20% of the time I get this error on youtube videos :
In the advanced statistics of the previous video I get :
As you can see the mime type is "mp4"If I display the statistics for a working html5 video :
The mime type is webm with codec vp9One day, after a lot of refresh (including refresh without cache), I tried to change the resolution of the video (720p by default) to 144p. After refreshing the page, the video started (in flash, not html5), this process always work, so I can use Vivaldi as my default browser for youtube, but it's annoying.
For Twitch I use the flash player, because the html one does not work at all.
It's impossible to watch twitter, dalymotion... videosI do not have this problems on safari and chrome.
I tried to disable / enable "Override software rendering list" in vivaldi:flags and start vivaldi with the "open /Applications/Vivaldi.app --args --ignore-gpu-blacklist" command, but the problem is still here.
Here is what I have in vivaldi:gpu :
Config :
iMac 21,5" end 2012
MacOs Sierra 10.12.0
Vivaldi 1.7.705.3 64bits (same problem on stable branch) -
I have a similar problem with videos in Vivaldi.
Certain videos in YouTube fail to load with the HTML5 player, and instead displays this message:
Usually, YouTube changes to the flash player on it's own, but it can be slow sometimes.
It usually affects some recently uploaded videos, but also some older ones, such as this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBpOYnP72RU&ab_channel=SciShowAll videos on Twitter, including gifs, are always unable to load
This is the message that appears
My Config:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB
OS: macOS 10.12.2 (16C67)
Running on Vivaldi 1.7.715.3 (Official Build) (64-bit) -
Bug still present in 1.7.721.3.
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Oddly enough, I can play some mp4 videos, but it's rare, and the instant anyone tries anything other than a straight embed (some sort of streaming, or any sort of changes to the playback mechanism) it fails.
I can also get Twitter GIFs, but not other videos.
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Thanks for the tip about the codec, i have the same issues on Youtube and i confirm that webM videos are allright but not mp4.
What I do when I encounter this problem is :
Change the resolution of the video to 144p (sometimes it works only with 240, 360...) then refresh the page.
The mp4 video starts in flash. Then, you just have to change back the resolution to 720/1080p in the flash player.
This trick works on 100% of the videos.
But again as said, can't do anything for twitter, steam...can a Vivaldi dev confirm all theses issues please ?
In the previous page they said that they were aware of the problem, trying to fix it, so just wait...
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I am also experiencing problems with videos playback and my macbook is not that old (MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Running on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3, latest version of Vivaldi, which I also tried to reinstall.
I have blocked third party cookies and using several extensions including:
- One Tab
- Frame by Frame for YouTube
- Magic Actions for YouTube
- LastPass
- Reopen closed tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Youtube Playback Speed Control
On top of this, I am losing all open tabs (incl. pinned tabs) when the computer restarts. I've highlighted the issue here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12568/all-tabs-lost-after-computer-restart
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@chainlightning Hey, yeah I can give a quick update, no fix in the pipeline yet, as we are currently working on other, bigger media issues, and because of that I can't really provide any sort of time estimate either.
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Hi,
Thanks for the quick update @Aronand.I managed to fix the youtube issue doing this :
I've found this chrome extension HERE. It disables the webm, vp8 and vp9 mime types. So I installed it, and as expected no youtube videos were working anymore.
So I changed the extension code you can find the repo here.
I simply changed the variable (in the inject.js)
var disallowed_types = ['webm', 'vp8', 'vp9'];
into
var disallowed_types = ['mp4'];Then installed the modified version.
And now all youtube videos are working !!
Before, the mime type of none working videos were 'mp4', now I get 'vp8', which is working.
As I don't know if I can put my modified extension in the chrome store (legally), I can make a tutorial...
edit : spell check (not my main language )
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@RiotNrrrd said in Videos not playing + browser needs manual restart a lot:
I'm not sure where Github comes into the picture here. Once you install the Extension can't you just navigate to
/Users/<yourname>/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/Default/Extensions/<Extension name>/1.0.4_0/src/inject
and modify inject.js in there? No need to reference Github ...
I will have to test... But it might worok and it's even simpler this way
The reason I talked about the Github is that I wanted to fork the extension (clone it and distribute it with the modification). I will probably do it this week end (if I don't have too much work ^^).
I am really curious to know how you discovered this Extension and knew to modify this inject.js file! Great work
I tried a lot of thing regarding the mime type of the videos, so I ended up to this extension.
As it was programmed to block the vp9 mime type, I searched in the code where the variable vp9 was and changed it.I'm currently searching a workaround for the twitter videos too (but I have so much work right now...)
And thanks for the inspect
Edit :
The bad news is, Twitter videos are still giving me "The media could not be played" errors. Here's an example
The extension only apply to the youtube website. I will try to apply it for twitter too and test...
In the manifest.json :
"matches": [ "*://*.youtube.com/*" ],
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@RiotNrrrd
The Twitter issue is a little bit more tricky ^^
I'm trying to fix it with more or less success...
Will post a workaround as soon as I got it (if I got it... )And thanks @chainlightning for the extension
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I have the same problems. Really, really annoying since I love Vivaldi and don't wanna go back to another browser.
Vimeo doesn't work either. Example link:
https://vimeo.com/192355597Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MBVivaldi 1.8.770.56 (Stable channel) (64-bit)