No audio in Vivaldi

leolyons

I have been using Vivaldi almost since its inception and enjoyed the experience however I now find that it intermittently will not play audio on certain sites - eg youtube, soundcloud etc

There is no problem with my audio set up. If I cut and paste the URL from Vivaldi to any other browser - usually FIrefox - the audio plays fine. I am at a loss as to how to fix this and as I am reluctant to abandon Vivaldi I would appreciate any hints as to what I might try to rectify the problem.
I have tried all the usual things such as checking volume is nto muted in either the operating system or in the web page.

Vivaldi 5.6.2867.46 (Stable channel) (32-bit)
Revision 3a406e4326cd62dfa6a66df62d801abd795643df
OS Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.2364)
JavaScript V8 10.8.168.22
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line ".......\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe" --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path ........AppData\Local\Vivaldi\Application\vivaldi.exe
Profile Path .........AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default

Zalex108

@leolyons

Hi,
Try to press F2, and write Mute.
Select unMute all tabs / unMute all background Tabs.

Check whether fixes it.

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leolyons

@Zalex108 Thanks for replying ...but no made no difference and the speaker symbol to show audio is playing is visible on the tab ie it does not have a line through it.

Zalex108

@leolyons

Search Audio in settings, there are 3 options if I remember.

leolyons

@Zalex108 Thanks again but no that does help either - it was set to play audio in all tabs but neither that setting nor play audio in current tab helps.

Zalex108

Then go to the Trouble Shoot steps:

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On each report add:

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Since when happens |

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Rename it as Tests or something related,
Use it as a Clean Profile, to Test without custom configurations as an original installation.

Since the result,
Works >> Follow the wrapped steps
Fails >> Send a Bug Report and add the VB# to the topic for follow up.
Thanks

Search the reason in the Profile:

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