Youtube problems, can watch only some videos
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It must have started with one of the last two Vivaldi updates, I am getting increasing problems watching youtube videos in Vivaldi. I get an empty video area with "An error occurred, please try again later. (Playback ID:....)".
The same videos work just fine when opening them in Firefox.
Downgrading Vivaldi did not help (I tried two versions from end of October), hence either google made a change that conflicts with Vivaldi or Vivaldi uses some external driver/codec etc. that for whatever reason no longer exists on my machine.
Anybody have an idea what the problem is?
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Do you have some example links.?
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Sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcptPPdEEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnMRsqggSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfbbYJzbNMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi67C0qy42w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-odjAyzGL8Just went through youtube's suggestions, and about a third has the described problem.
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can.
But my MacOS is up-to-date. I upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur yesterday. But this has not helped.
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Thanks, starting in terminal helps. Now the videos work. I'll add that information.
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@mbert I have a 2018 Mac Mini with Big Sur. Tried all your links and all worked for me.
In Safari, in the recent past, I have sometimes found videos that were embedded in other websites that wouldn't work, but would in Firefox.
I wonder if it is possible that it involves some extension you have? Might be worth turning them all off and see what happens.
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I'm already on MacOS BigSur. I had Hardware Acceleration off and couldn't play the videos. I turned HA on and now I can see all of them. *I did not use the terminal solution.
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@mbert Hi, can you please run Vivaldi from terminal and post any warning/error messages shown in the terminal window? Please run without the --no-sandbox option as that option will make the error disappear. Thanks!
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@tomashaarde said in Youtube problems, can watch only some videos:
@mbert Hi, can you please run Vivaldi from terminal and post any warning/error messages shown in the terminal window? Please run without the --no-sandbox option as that option will make the error disappear. Thanks!
Done. Where can I send it?
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@Gwen-Dragon Thanks, I have replied to the email from the bug tracking system, so you should have it now.
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Just installed the new version (3.5.2115.73), but it still has this problem. Is this expected? The bug ID was VB-74199.
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@Gwen-Dragon said in Youtube problems, can watch only some videos:
@mbert Bug is confirmed, a fix is in progress.
What is the status of the bug?
I’m currently on a Mac with Vivaldi 3.7.2218.49 and the issue is still present (on another Mac I can play videos in Vivaldi without any issues). By launching the browser with no sandbox (which I consider a security risk) the issue disappears. All other browsers (no matter their rendering engine) work perfectly fine with videos so far.
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@Gwen-Dragon
Thanks for the info. I investigated this issue further. Using Vivaldi Snapshot on the same machine, or even switching to a different profile like Guest makes the browser play videos again. I already tried to disable all extensions, and also turned off blocking, unfortunately to no avail. It looks like my issue is profile related, but I really do not want to start from scratch or manually export / import things. Is there a way to make videos play again with my active profile?
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But I already disabled all extensions and had the same behavior? Are there maybe some Vivaldi / Chrome preferences tied to my profile I eventually screwed up that would prevent videos from loading? I checked site permissions twice, but I’ve seen that they are basically on default. Maybe I’m missing something else?
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@Gwen-Dragon I tried the process again exactly like you described, but unfortunately video still doesn’t play if all extensions are completely uninstalled
This is an Intel Mac, so that we can rule out any issues with M1.
I migrated the user profile from a notebook to a desktop computer. Maybe this caused the video issues? Is there some file in the profile folder that is somehow related to video playback and tied to one machine?
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I have the same issue, on a Hackintosh.
Same videos, or any other HTML5 video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcptPPdEEo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnMRsqggSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfbbYJzbNMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi67C0qy42w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-odjAyzGL8strangely some youtube videos work and some not... Tried everything with the experimental flags.
This is holding me back from Vivaldi, I want to use it so bad and customize all the things
Any idea?
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Log Messages
[4155:115727:0419/225139.277205:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(411)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : ResetStreamReader Failed to start reading with AVAssetReader for type VIDEO : Cannot Decode
[4155:115727:0419/225139.277238:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(249)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : Initialize Reset Stream Readers failed
[4155:115727:0419/225153.266698:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(411)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : ResetStreamReader Failed to start reading with AVAssetReader for type VIDEO : Cannot Decode
[4155:115727:0419/225153.266720:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(249)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : Initialize Reset Stream Readers failed
[4155:115727:0419/225200.568253:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(411)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : ResetStreamReader Failed to start reading with AVAssetReader for type VIDEO : Cannot Decode
[4155:115727:0419/225200.568273:ERROR:avf_media_reader.mm(249)] : PROPMEDIA(GPU) : Initialize Reset Stream Readers failed
[4155:775:0419/225318.623597:WARNING:ipc_message_attachment_set.cc(49)] : MessageAttachmentSet destroyed with unconsumed attachments: 0/1
[4155:775:0419/225330.031468:WARNING:ipc_message_attachment_set.cc(49)] : MessageAttachmentSet destroyed with unconsumed attachments: 0/1
[4155:775:0419/230252.587520:WARNING:ipc_message_attachment_set.cc(49)] : MessageAttachmentSet destroyed with unconsumed attachments: 0/1 -
@luangjokaj I’m not sure what’s going on, but in the meantime invidious is another way to watch YouTube that isn’t mean to you, your privacy, and your bandwidth. You can also hide YouTube comments if you don’t like them, or you can show them, or you can see comments on both Reddit and YouTube.
Make sure wildvine and all Google plugins are enabled, at least for troubleshooting.
You seem to be suggesting that these work in another browser, what browser?
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While I am getting less of these with youtube nowadays the problem seems to have worsened with videos shared on Facebook. Very often I get the "Sorry, we're having trouble with playing this video." message. When starting the browser with the "--no-sandbox" CLI option, the problem goes away. Hence it still seems related to the original issue?
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@mbert same here. Thanks for the suggestion, I just tried with "--no-sandbox" and for the first time I can play HTML videos (https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp)
However with the argument "--no-sandbox" I cannot use any extension that does screen recording for example: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/screen-recorder/hniebljpgcogalllopnjokppmgbhaden
It complains about system permissions.
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Permission denied by system index.html#/:1Running Vivaldi without "--no-sandbox" allows me to record again, just in this case I can't play any HTML5 videos lol.
What a weird bug. Is any of the developers following this thread?
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