Trouble with some YouTube videos
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Hi,
I'm wondering if anybody could reproduce what's happening to me.
I go to the YouTube video and I get an error.
Here's an example...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa1GvA7lWcI&feature=emb_logo&disable_polymer=true
This happens on embedded videos too. Like on Patreon, this same video is embedded.
Since it seems I can only put 1 screenshot in a message I combined the one from YouTube and Patreon so you can see them both. The one on the lower right is the one of the same video on Patreon that is embedded and won't play
These play just fine on Chrome and Firefox.
I'm on a Mac Pro (trashcan)/ 64 gigs ram
OS 11.2. was happening on 11.1 as well.
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@FirstPrinciples said in Trouble with some YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa1GvA7lWcI&feature=emb_logo&disable_polymer=true
I just tired it on macOS 11.2 and Vivaldi 3.6.2165.34 and it played for me. Do you have any extensions?
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@FirstPrinciples No problem on my Mac Mini (latest Big Sur).
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I might recall a Vivaldi blog post, that said Vivaldi didn't have access to some proprietary codec used in YouTube. Or something. If I'm remembering correctly (and that's a pretty big if), that might have something to do with this.
Edit: I thought this was the Soo big power consumption when Youtube videos playing thread, when I posted that. Still, I suppose the proprietary codec could have something to do with this.
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@Chas4 That is really good to know. Yes, I have a bunch of extensions. I guess the next step is to eliminate them all and add them back one at a time to see if I can figure it out.
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@da1bigkahuna Great - I really appreciate you replying. Then I will try eliminating my extensions and see if maybe that's the issue.
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@Eggcorn It sure could. Especially may be on the Patreon site. The video starts there. Normally I can start playing and click the YouTube link and jump right there. But the YouTube video won't play on Patreon. And if I copy it's link directly and try to play it on YouTube, it's still playing.
First I tried deleting all cookies and history etc. I deleted them all. I really hate having to eliminate all of my extensions, but I'll see what it does.
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Do you use the exact same extensions in chrome and firefox.?
if it were a proprietary codec issue as has been mentioned before then i would assume ALL vivaldi users on mac would experience exactly the same issue but previous posts would seem to indicate otherwise. -
@Priest72 Not quite exact. There are some things that won't work on Firefox like Toucan which is a translator Extension.
Well, I have uninstalled all extensions. The problem persists.
I'm At a loss now. Maybe I should uninstall Vivaldi and reinstall it. Do you think that would help?
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Well, this is sad. I eliminated all of my extensions, I reset Vivaldi by eliminating the folder per the instructions, re-set it up, and the same problem still exists.
Then I completely uninstalled Vivaldi through clean my Mac, re-downloaded and reinstalled leaving it completely clean, no ad blockers nothing. Nothing restored from my account at Vivaldi either.
The problem still exists.
I have tried this URL on all browsers. They all work except this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8ROiFWp6I&disable_polymer=true
I'm really hoping somebody has some ideas here as I was just getting ready to leave Firefox for Vivaldi. Then this.
Mac Pro (trashcan)
64 gig ram
Mac OS 11.2Here is something really weird though. Look at the screenshot. And you will see that Vivaldi things I'm running Mac OS 10.16. But you see the about screen for my Mac, where it shows 11.2.
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@FirstPrinciples I show the same thing as you do, but had no trouble with your link. Seems the only thing different is you have a Mac Pro and I have a Mac Mini.
Have you tried booting to safe mode? No idea if it will work at all, but I just can't think of anything else.
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@da1bigkahuna After reading your message a few minutes ago, I tried starting in safe mode. Overall, the same error happens.
I did notice something a little interesting when the video trying to start, there was a spinning circle in the middle for just a fraction of a second. And it stuttered and the screen flashed a little bit. And then it returned the same error.
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Does it play if you clear cache? Also what is the cookie setting you have for YouTube?
macOS 10.16 was the early betas version numbering for macOS 11 Big Sur
Any issue still after todays update? https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/desktop-updates/minor-update-for-vivaldi-desktop-browser-3-6/
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@Chas4 I updated and the problem still continues.
I have accept all cookies selected. I completely uninstalled the app using clean my Mac which takes out even the settings and everything. Prior to doing that I removed all extensions and I cleared all caches. Then I reinstalled it fresh.
That's weird because I only upgraded to 11 when 11.1 was available. I did not install any beta versions.
So far nothing is helping and as far as I can tell the company has not responded.
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@FirstPrinciples 10.16 was the early beta version number, it was switched to 11 during the beta (some sites might be badly browser sniffing again, same thing happened years ago were a site would only work for IE 6), not sure if Vivaldi is doing it for compatibility reasons.
Strangely I am seeing that sometimes on Youtube now also (sometimes a page refresh clears that),
I have not looked on one of the failed ones the right click on the video and if stats for nerds is there.This was an ad on the homepage (tried to refresh multiple times and Youtube is not showing another ad video embed
Got the stats for nerds on the embed ad after clicking through it in Safari, not sure if it is the audio and video codec combo
Direct to the video is plays in Vivaldi but different audio codec
I wonder if Youtube broke something on their end. @xyzzy know of any other reports of Youtube videos failing to playback?
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@Chas4 It's still doesn't work. And I don't believe that YouTube broke it because the video plays on all other browsers including Safari. My primary browser that I'm trying to switch off of to make Vivaldi my primary plays it just fine.
I was able to right click on the video and get what you referenced. It's in the screenshot attached.
Sure do wish I could get a definitive answer on this.
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Upon perusal of the links on this page a common denominator seems to be "polymer"...I would hazard a far out guess this is some form of google web component which youtube is looking for....Youtube is google owned and naturally they will target their "own" browser which of course is chrome.
it is a veiled attempt by google to force people to use google chrome for google owned services...personally i think the situation will get worse as time goes on...
just my guess of course.
have you by any chance tried playing the videos in incognito.private window.?
try that or turn off hardware accelearation;. -
@Chas4 I don't see very many open YouTube-specific bugs but VB-76731 has all the info the developers should require to investigate this issue, and I have noted that we have an active discussion here in this thread.
I wonder if Youtube broke something on their end. @xyzzy know of any other reports of Youtube videos failing to playback?
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@Priest72 Hi - that was an accident on my part. I copied it from Firefox where it works. However, you can simply remove that tag and you'll see it behaves the same. In fact, none of the videos on this channel of YouTube work on Vivaldi.
Here is the link to the channel directly from Vivaldi and you can see the clicking on any of his videos won't work.
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@xyzzy thanks for responding. However, it's now been an excessive one week and I have not gotten any kind of an answer for anyone, officially. Yours is apparently the first. But there is no resolution. Even if I knew it just wasn't going to work and thus stay with another browser, even that would be better.
And again, this is simply a non-emergency. I absolutely can watch the videos on other browsers. So I am fine in terms of that. I would just like to get everything on the one browser and have it work.
