Post 2.4 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1497.4
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@nellaiseemai: This is known. Fullscreen video casting is VB-49195.
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Still having video playback problems in macOS. Nothing on Twitter, Facebook, or Twitch will play. Youtube works fine (VP9 codec). No issues in any other Chromium-based browser. GPU is a Radeon 570.
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@arcticblue Thanks for the report. Are you using a genuine Apple Mac or a "hackintosh", and do you have any problems playing these same videos in Safari?
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I've got twitch video problem since VB-29892
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@xyzzy: It's a hackintosh, but I never suspected that could be an issue since I'm using very specific "known good" hardware and no other browser has an issue. Interestingly, I cannot reproduce on my real Macbook Pro (Intel HD 4000 / GeForce 650M). Features status in vivaldi://gpu looks identical on both machines.
The hackintosh lists "AMD Radeon RX 570 OpenGL Engine" as the GL renderer and the Macbook Pro lists "Intel HD Graphics 4000 OpenGL Engine". MacOS versions are same on both of these.
The Video Accleration section at the bottom is totally empty on the hackintosh which I didn't notice before now. It lists some h264 items on the Macbook Pro. On the hackintosh, this is also empty in Opera and Chrome in about://gpu, but video playback still works.
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@xyzzy: and to be clear, just because I never suspected running on a hackintosh wasn't ever the issue, doesn't mean I'm dismissing that. There very well could be something off about my machine here, but I'm still interested why it would work in other browsers. Whatever the problem is, it seems only Vivaldi is experiencing issues with it.
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@xyzzy: Sorry for the many replies, but I just tested Safari and it works fine.
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@arcticblue Vivaldi decodes proprietary media types (such as H.264/AVC) with the macOS platform libraries. If the native decoders refuse to work, and they don't on some hardware, then video playback will fail. That said, if Safari works, then so should Vivaldi. (Chrome is not a good comparison in this case because it ships with its own suite of codecs that are independent of the underlying hardware. Unfortunately, this is not an option for Vivaldi because the licence fees that are required to do this are astronomically huge.)
Vivaldi also implemented some changes a few months ago on macOS builds to fix media playback issues that occurred when GPUs got blacklisted by the underlying Chromium code. Things are certainly much better now but there's still some work that needs to be done, and the devs are looking into all cases where video playback fails.
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My mouse cursor keeps disappearing if I don't move it for a few seconds. It is an HP wireless mouse. The same thing happens with my Novatech wired mouse.
I have YouTube video fullscreen on my secondary monitor and this forum on my primary monitor.
The cursor disappears from both monitors at once.
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@xyzzy: Well I went down the rabbit hole and figured this out. Since macOS 10.14.1, Apple seems to force all video decode/encode acceleration on to the Intel chip (which is pretty dumb in my opinion...the dedicated GPU would perform much better) which I had disabled on my system. I had to enable it, then override the framebuffer ID to be one that tells macOS that my Intel graphics has no physical connections. Once I did that, vivaldi://gpu shows h.264 info in the Video Acceleration section and video playback works perfectly.
And all this time I thought it was a Vivaldi bug. Still odd that Safari would play video while Vivaldi wouldn't though.
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@arcticblue Interesting... thanks! My guess is that Safari uses different logic to fall back to software decoding. Just out of curiosity, does setting the "Hardware-accelerated video decode" flag to "Disabled" allow video playback to work on your system without the framebuffer override and with your Intel GPU disabled?
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@Jenoki I also cannot drag a tab into the bookmarks tab or panel.
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@xyzzy: That was actually one of the first things I tried. Setting it to "disabled" had seemingly no effect and videos still would not play. I also messed with the GPU blacklist option with no luck.
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Reported bug as:
(VB-51434) Mouse cursor disappears when watching fullscreen video
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@ian-coog: Perfect, thanks!
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Hi,
I have two profiles (1 = work, 2 = private). Do I need 2 accounts to sync each profile or should / can I use one account for both profiles to sync?
Greetings
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@libcub said in Post 2.4 – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 1497.4:
@Jenoki I also cannot drag a tab into the bookmarks tab or panel.
Already reported, is the VB-51276 - "Impossible to drag the tabs in the Bookmarks Panel"
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@Irontiger You definitely need a separate Vivaldi Sync account for each profile.
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Add the option to 'move the menu vivaldi' as well as occurs in the address bar.
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@vlevi70: turn off hardware acceleration, should fix it