Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter

[ssmla]

I installed Ubuntu 18.04 yesterday. Everything is working except when there's a Periscope video in Twitter. I can view things at Periscope's website and everyhthing works at http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html. I don't know if this is a vivaldi problem or a Linux or codec one. Any ideas?

[lamarca]

@ssmla Can you tells us when that "Periscope" can be found?

[lamarca]

@ssmla said in Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter:

don't know if this is a vivaldi problem or a Linux or codec one. Any ideas?

Which Vivaldi version are you running?
Can your OS reproduce it: https://youtu.be/9D7qmseGz6o

Please start Vivaldi from terminal to see if any message are printed

[ssmla]

I started Vivaldi from the command line. the messages are at https://pastebin.com/m10xxaYy

Here's a link to a tweet with a Periscope video that won't play: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1054735604158582784

here's a direct link to the video on Periscope's site (it plays fine): https://www.pscp.tv/w/1nAJEQEPWYRJL

Going to either of the links above don't cause any new messages.

Vivaldi 2.0.1309.42 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision 60e98774ba1a81c9f6e39d237c21ac1818a4df1d-refs/heads/master@{#597344}
OS Linux
JavaScript V8 6.9.427.23
Flash (Disabled)
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.102 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/2.0.1309.42
Command Line /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
Profile Path /home/bill/.config/vivaldi/Default

[TbGbe]

@ssmla said in Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter:

Here's a link to a tweet with a Periscope video that won't play: https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1054735604158582784

here's a direct link to the video on Periscope's site (it plays fine): https://www.pscp.tv/w/1nAJEQEPWYRJL

Both videos play for me - both in Stable and in Snapshot.
So I don't think it is a Vivaldi problem.

Just check - vivaldi://gpu
Is your graphics running with hardware enabled or not?

[ssmla]

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
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Deferred Display List: Disabled
Skia Renderer: Disabled
Surface Synchronization: Enabled
Video Decode: Unavailable
Viz Service Display Compositor: Disabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated

[latenight]

It turns out the Privacy Badger extension from the EFF was the problem.

[lamarca]

@ssmla Thanks for the messages. HTML5 works fine, that's good. HTML5 needs Widevine lib. See this article - available on Vivaldi Help Pages - hit F1
Let us know if it works as it should.

Btw: videos play fine.

[ssmla]

@latenight said in Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter:

It turns out the Privacy Badger extension from the EFF was the problem.

I see we had the same problem. LOL!

It was the Privacy Badger extension causing the problem. Change the slider so it doesn't block the pscp.tv domains.

[lamarca]

Is the issue solved?

[ssmla]

I don't have any other problems so I would say yes.

[latenight]

@ssmla said in Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter:

@latenight said in Can't play Periscope videos in Twitter:

It turns out the Privacy Badger extension from the EFF was the problem.

I see we had the same problem. LOL!

It was the Privacy Badger extension causing the problem. Change the slider so it doesn't block the pscp.tv domains.

HAHAHAHA!!! I was having the same problem and I thought I started the thread.