Solved YouTube buffering
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For a while now Vivaldi cannot properly play videos on YouTube above ~480p. I hoped newer patches would solve the issue, but it persists. I thought it was my internet at first, but other browsers run YouTube 4k without any buffering.
Vivaldi even shows that it has downloaded more than enough to play, but still stops the video and loads.
On Manjaro kde I experience no issues, it only happens with the Windows version.I'm running W11 and tried reinstalling Vivaldi without any luck.
Are there programs/dependencies Vivaldi uses which I could try reinstalling?
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@flosen Mate, you made me look in the right place to solve it.
I reinstalled my nvidia graphics drivers and clicked the option to do a fresh/clean install.
This resets the nvidia control panel settings.So I tested and everything worked. After I put back my settings and it broke again.
Testing everything one by one and the issue is: limiting background fps (I had it on 30 and the video was definitely not player @ 30fps).
I know there's something similar for AMD users, so try that.Strange issue to have, I'd recommend fixing it or informing people of the potential issue somewhere.
Is it possible for me to mark this as fixed? Can't find where to do it.
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Hello, @psych0b, and welcome to our community!
The last time I experienced something similar was when my Internet connection was running slowly - but apart from that, I'm not experiencing anything like that. 4K 60 FPS videos on YouTube play smoothly for me in Vivaldi Stable 5.1.2567.46 & Snapshot 5.2.2581.4 (64-bit on Windows 10 ver. 21H2, x64, build ver. 19044.1526)
Try using a guest window and see if the issue occurs there too. For more information, please refer to the Troubleshooting issues guide.
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Hi and thank you for replying @pafflick,
Sadly it's not the internet connection, but Vivaldi (or something interfering?).
Following the steps of the troubleshooting page did not resolve the issue (removing cookies, guest account, disabling blockers & extensions).
I also tried the latest Snapshot build, same issue. The video is choppy, rebuffers frequently.
Same video and quality setting on Chrome and it's butter smooth.I found out that any video played is choppy for me, not just on YouTube.
I tried disabling all unnecessary applications at startup to see how that affects the issue, sadly, the issue persists.
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@psych0b
Hi, search for "hardware" in the settings and disable hardware acceleration, restart Vivaldi, all work is using CPU not GPU/CPU then.
If it work better it is a GPU/driver issue.
Chrome, Edge and Firefox use own codecs, Vivaldi use Windows codecs, for example.
There are some workarounds for the GPU problem, test how it work without HWAcceleration.Cheers, mib
EDIT: I had big problems on a friends PC and AVAST, after disable it Vivaldi run five times faster! -
@psych0b Any luck with this issue? I have been using Vivaldi exclusively for a few months now with no issues at all and then a few weeks ago I started getting this 'stuttering' issue as well, even at the lowest resolution.
I have done all the troubleshooting steps, cleaned my cache, turned off hardware acceleration, uninstalled and reinstalled, tried a different clean profile with no extensions, and still got the same result. My Speedtest shows an average of about 120Mbps and MS Edge works fine, I reinstalled Chrome to test and the same as you, smooth as glass playback at the highest vid resolution.
At times I may have even seen it 'stutter' or freeze up very briefly when scrolling or doing other things in the browser. I am pretty sure I am seeing this but it is really hard to tell if it is just me or I am hypersensitive to any issues like this now.
I am willing to submit all the stuff to try and troubleshoot this but wanted to see if anyone else had any recommendations before I attempt to bother anything with this.
I have really liked this browser, I mean I even uninstalled Chrome, but if this continues it is a deal-breaker for me. Thanks in advance for any help!
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Microsoft Windows 10 Education
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
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@tek420
Hi, do you have by any chance Education N or KN?
Chrome does not need Media Feature Packs, they use own codecs, Vivaldi does.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin good thought but no, it is the full Education version, not the stripped-down ones. It was working perfectly up until a few weeks ago.
Soo as I am typing this really and made a few typos that I made the Grammarly plugin has a red line that scrolls from left to right under the word with the type, that is 'stuttering' as it scrolls and appears to pause after each letter or so ever so briefly.
I just logged into this same forum post in Chrome and that red line scrolls very smoothly leading me to believe the entire browser is getting a stutter with what it does and video seems to just possibly be the most obvious in showing the issue.
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@mib2berlin
Thank you for your suggestions.
Disabling HWacceleration did not change anything.
I don't have a virus scan besides Windows Defender (WD).
I also tried temporarily disabling WD without any luck.Is there I way to repair/reinstall the Windows codec?
I tried looking around, but I couldn't find anything useful.
Running "sfc /scannow" didn't find anything. -
@tek420 No luck sadly. Hopefully we can find the source.
Good idea, I'll post my specs too.
CPU: i9 9900k
GPU: RTX 2070
RAM: 16GB
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So one thing I noticed is that the YouTube video seems to play fine, very slightly barely noticeably choppy, then the moment I open another tab the video instantly becomes very choppy and the browser as a whole gets a little 'laggy' in doing anything like switching tabs or even just scrolling a long webpage.
I do a lot on my PC but I cannot recall anything new added or changes to it or anything that may have caused this to start happening.
Anyone with an idea on this???? Should I try to go through the steps of submitting this as a bug? It is SUPER FRUSTRATING since I have used this for a few months now with zero issues and have really learned to like this browser then all of the sudden a few weeks ago this started happening.
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions!!!
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@tek420 There's no use in sending a bug report if the issue occurs on your machine only. If you've already gone through all the troubleshooting steps, you might try turning off the hardware acceleration, and see if it's any different. Perhaps there's some conflict with the GPU drivers - for some users, issues like that were resolved after updating (and sometimes downgrading) the drivers.
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@tek420
One user report issues with the latest AMD driver, after reinstalling a driver one step back all work again.
I cant find the thread, I fear.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin You probably mean this.
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ok I had the same issue the last few days with a freshly installed w11, I had no problem playing videos on other browsers, only vivaldi wouldn't run smoothly.
Just installed the latest nvidia driver and every video runs smoothly again
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Fixed
@flosen Mate, you made me look in the right place to solve it.
I reinstalled my nvidia graphics drivers and clicked the option to do a fresh/clean install.
This resets the nvidia control panel settings.So I tested and everything worked. After I put back my settings and it broke again.
Testing everything one by one and the issue is: limiting background fps (I had it on 30 and the video was definitely not player @ 30fps).
I know there's something similar for AMD users, so try that.Strange issue to have, I'd recommend fixing it or informing people of the potential issue somewhere.
Is it possible for me to mark this as fixed? Can't find where to do it.
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@psych0b @pafflick @mib2berlin well I tried every possible version of the AMS drivers I could and was still getting the stuttering until I went with the full-on thermonuclear option.
I needed to completely uninstall anything AMD, scrub my registry, delete the install and program folders it kept. I then did the same for Vivaldi and restarted, reinstalled Vivaldi again, and did NOT install AMD anything to just see what happened. IT FLIPPING WORKED!!
I do not have any stuttering as of now with no AMD software running and will play tomorrow to see if installing it again messes things up.
NOTE - I was on the AMD driver version from the post @pafflick found.
Thanks all, truly and sincerely!! I will update if I break anything installing the AMD stuff, otherwise, I am uninstalling Chrome again.
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