Videos do not play at Google News
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Thanks burnout.
I've tried what you suggested. I was able tgo find the WidevineCdm folder and deleted it and then updated it.
I downloaded the extension you suggested and I tried it as Internet Explorer, Edge, Chrome, and Opera, but there was no improvement .... the ad videos played, and then a blank screen with the closed captioning appearing.
I tried the developer tools as suggested. I have included a screen shot so you can see that the video did not even show a URL or file type.
And the media-internals page showed no errors. There are no problems shown for h.264 decoding, and, unfortunately, the version of Vivaldi I have (1.14.10077.55) does not have a System tab in settings.
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@coover
In the command prompt, you can try with:
vivaldi --disable-gpuJust to see if they play then.
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@coover said in Videos do not play at Google News:
unfortunately, the version of Vivaldi I have (1.14.10077.55) does not have a System
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chrome://settings/system
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@coover said in Videos do not play at Google News:
I have included a screen shot so you can see that the video did not even show a URL or file type.
You might have to change the filter to "xhr" or "all" to find it. But, it indeed might not help on some of the sites that user blobs like you mentioned. If that's the case and you have the issue on a different site too, try testing on it instead to see if you can get an actual URL to a video.
You can also try the widevinecdm folder from a Google Chrome profile in place of the one Vivaldi fetches from Google. It probably won't help though.
You're sure you're using Windows 10 Pro though and not Windows 10 N, right? If you're using N, you'll need to download the Windows 10 media feature pack from Microsoft. If you do indeed have Pro or Home, then never mind on this part.
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Thanks for the link to Chrome settings ... turning off hardware acceleration did it! It was and is the solution. Thanks, guys.
And yes, indeed, Windows 10 Pro is running. I am my own IT and I installed it myself, having started with computers in 1961 (as a Math major in University), and now retired but volunteering in a Computer Laboratory for Senior Citizens. But I have little knowledge in some aspects of computing (such as this one). I am considered the Computer Guru in my neighborhood and town, but there is a lot more to learn and I do so everyday.
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@coover said in Videos do not play at Google News:
turning off hardware acceleration did it!
That's cool that it worked. One shouldn't have to do that though. Just in case it's useful to some devs, what GPU and driver version are you using?
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@burnout426 No, it "should not" be necessary. Unfortunately, Chromium is blacklisting more video cards with every release. Without the proprietary patches Chrome writes to get around this (and to which we are denied access), Vivaldi literally cannot keep up. We can only recommend that you take hardware out of the equation if Chromium does not support the card or its drivers.
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@burnout42
The Desktop machine is a Dell Optiplex 3020 which natively runs (on the motherboard) an Intel HD Graphics 4600. It's a nice computer, but something went wrong with the on board video card and the machine started blue screening. Determining that the culprit must be the on board video card, I looked for a cheap fix and found in a box an AMD Radeon HD 4350, a rather pedestrian card, but I'm not a gamer (unless you consider a Solitaire gaming), so it did the job. The driver is 8.970.100.9001, which, apparently, is the latest driver (sometime in 2015, I think). It's a nice machine, has an i5-4590 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and an SSD using Win 10 Pro 16299.251. I also own and operate 6 other machines in my home, all Win 10 and all running Vivaldi as default.
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After trying to play a video (one that doesn't play) with Hardware acceleration on, do you see anything on the "Console" tab in the developer tools? Sometimes it'll show you an error/notice about something being blacklisted where it points to things like https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/gpu/config/software_rendering_list.json?l=673. Maybe something with show on
vivaldi://gpu
about disabled hardware acceleration.Maybe enabling
vivaldi://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist
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This is how video on Facebook looks like on Vivaldi 1.14 and 1.15 (including the latest snapshot 1.15.1130.3).vivaldi://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode is not a real solution because whiteout the acceleration I experience low frame rate, also on YouTube.
There are no problems whit 1.13 or previous versions.
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