Vivaldi cannot play Facebook videos and SoundCloud Music

joaolisboa

Like I said I already installed it, with admin privileges obviously, and it didn't work. Everything is the same.

EDIT: I tried to install and reboot again and now it works. Don't know it didn't work the first time. Thanks!

LPChip

Yeah, it didn't work for me the first time either. I have installed it 3 times. First the x64 version, then x86 but neither worked. Went searching for other stuff, and everything kept pointing back into this, so I logged in as admin user, downloaded and installed it to C:
temp, and then it worked.

Weird, but okay… At least, it works for me in Firefox, and somewhat in Vivaldi.

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3670.3

Strange, according to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3010081
You should not need that Media Pack as it has been "superseded by update 3099229 for the November 2015 release of Media Feature Pack." :huh:

LPChip

I guess I don't have that update either.

Don't forget I went from a fresh install to try to get it to work on a Windows 8.1 N install that obviously misses this.

joaolisboa

It's still not working properly for some reason. I stopped working and rebooting made it work again.

LPChip

Good to hear its working for you. Maybe I'll try a reboot too. Who knows.

EDIT: For me its still not working. Not sure if Vivaldi can't handle the codec or another one is missing, or that its a network issue.

joaolisboa

Is there no news about this? It has stopped working for me many times. I have to reboot for it to work but after a while it just doesn't work anymore.

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3670.3

@joaolisboa:

Is there no news about this? It has stopped working for me many times. I have to reboot for it to work but after a while it just doesn't work anymore.

I don't believe you have the problem as LPChip. From the information you posted:
You have Windows 10 Pro (not Window N) - so should not be missing needed codecs.
Your GPU is not capable of hw acceleration.

So whereas a possible workaround to VB-18995 might be enabling Vivaldi to identify the missing codec(s) and reporting this to the user; that would be unlikely to help you.

As your problem is temporarily solved by a restart it would seem to be something totally different.
Did you try resetting your profile (to eliminate extensions / cookies / cache etc)
https://vivaldi.net/forum/vivaldi-browser/11444-w10-msi-gs-60-606-pro-i5-5700hq-vivaldi-won-t-display-in-anything-other-than-maximized#62089

rado84

Vivaldi cannot play Facebook videos

Actually, it can. But only if you play it directly from a post. If you go to "Albums" and then click on "Videos" and play any video, it won't run. When I did this I got a message "something went wrong", so I found the alert from Facebook that my video has been processed and when I clicked it, it ran without a problem:

hanstorben

Hi:)

first, big thanks for making this nice browser!

I am having the same problems like the others here, Soundcloud is always telling me "There was a problem playing this track.". I am on Windows 8.0 x64, Vivaldi version now is x64 1.5.609.8 (Developer Build), but I had the same issue with the latest stable x64 build. I also tried Vivaldi portable from here http://portableappz.blogspot.de/2015/01/vivaldi-108338-multilingual-tech-preview.html and the same issue happens there. Pepper Flash is installed and working (according to Adobe´s test site). Version is "pepflashplayer64_23_0_0_162.dll".

If I use FireFox, there is no problem with playing any Soundcloud content on the same PC.

Any ideas what I can do?

Thank you:)

hanstorben

I was able to finally solve the problem! It had to do with Flash, just as I thought. For me the solution was:

Download https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe and uninstall all Flash Players versions with it.
Download Flash again from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect (it should auto-detect that you are using Vivaldi and hence this will already be the right version for you to download) and install it.
Problem was solved this way (at least for me).

Cheers,

Hans

hanstorben

The problem is back, most tracks at soundcloud.com won´t play, although I´ve installed the latest Pepperflash. Funnily, however, some DO play. This one for example plays:

https://soundcloud.com/howtoplaymadden/madden-alive

This one does not:

https://soundcloud.com/jesse-kiis/madden-golden-light-feat-6am-jesse-kiis-remix

and gives a "There was a problem playing this track." error ALL the time. Both these tracks are playing fine with Google Chrome, using the same Pepperflash version.

To make 100% sure, I´ve copied the Pepperflash DLL from System32/Macromed/Flash/pepflashplayer64_23_0_0_162.dll to Google-Chrome-Install-Dir/Pepperflash/pepflashplayer.dll so that Chrome will be using the same Pepperflash.dll that Vivaldi uses. It works perfectly fine in Chrome. Removing the Pepperflash.dll from Chrome makes Flash not working anymore, so it is safe to say that Chrome used the exact same DLL that Vivaldi was using from System32/Macromed/Flash/pepflashplayer64_23_0_0_162.dll Still Vivaldi just plays that one track, while Chrome plays both of them (and all other tracks on Soundcloud.com without problems).

I am having the same experience with some YouTube Videos within Vivaldi by the way. Some play, some don´t and give a reply error (try again later), they also all work fine in Chrome.

Cheers,

Hans

TbGbe · Win: Snapshot Vivaldi 7.4.3670.3

Whilst a lot of user problems in this thread have been solved with the fixes in Snapshot 1.5.604.4 (which was then provided as an update to Stable 1.4); it is possible that your problem hasn't.

As a note: I have no problems with those tracks (or others) on SoundCloud using Adobe Flash 23.0.0.162 with either
Vivaldi 1.5.609.8 (Developer Build) (64-bit)
Vivaldi 1.4.589.29 (Stable channel) (32-bit)

what is your GPU configuration?
Is hardware acceleration activated? (see vivaldi://gpu - Feature Status, Driver Workarounds, Problems Detected and Version Information).

Have you tried changing the h/w acceleration setting as described earlier in this thread?

hanstorben

Yes, I´ve disabled HW (GPU) acceleration already, makes no difference. I am also on Vivaldi 1.5.609.8 x64 and have been on the 1.4 x64 stable before, along with Pepperflash 23.0.0.162 (also tried the debug version of it by the way). It makes no difference, 90% of the tracks on Soundcloud won´t play at all. Today I am back on Google Chrome x64 and everything is fine with the same Pepperflash version and not a single error on Soundcloud.

I am not sure if there is a way to activate a debug mode where I can see what exactly the flash player is doing in Vivaldi and why it would fail?

Cheers,

Hans

hanstorben

Am on

https://github.com/henrypp/chromium/releases/download/pgo_build_test/chromium_x64_55.0.2865.0_r419399_nosync_codecs_archive.zip

now for the last 12 hours and haven´t had a single issue with any kind of playback. Sorry for having to go from Vivaldi, but I finally wanted to listen to music and videos again without issues and without investigating what´s wrong for hours.

All the best to Vivaldi team and thanks for the efforts,

Hans

hanstorben

As said, with Chromium there is not a single issue since days now, all videos on each site and all music on each site plays just fine. So I doubt I have anything "strange" on my system, because why would it all work so perfect with Chromium then while it doesn´t with Vivaldi?

Skrillit

I think I may have found the answer to your problem, Both the Soundcloud Player and Facebook Video Player use a technology called Flash Player and more specifically it is the PPAPI (Chromium & Opera) version that is needed for the Vivaldi Browser to be able to run both soundcloud and Facebook Video without any problems on vivaldi, below is a detailed screenshot on a work around for this issue.

http://i.imgur.com/f58Inls.png
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I hope that this helped to solve your problem
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hanstorben

Thanks for your efforts, but if you read my posts carefully, you´ll notice that PPAPI is installed and that I´ve even tried the debug version but still no luck.

Many days on the Chromium build I´ve posted above now and never had a single problem with any Soundcloud song or Youtube video. Just saying.

monkey_wrench_gang898

i had same issue on linux. i sidestepped problem by accessing .ogg versions from their archive. it was inconvenient, though.

many websites ask for flash first, even if they offer other media delivery methods.this issue has occurred in multiple other browsers (although not with me). other browsers may offer a solution for problem that could be applied to this situation.
my machine i played .ogg on lacked mp3 codecs. at one point it played an html5 podcast through soundcloud webpage in browser, although i was unable to duplicate this.

last point: if it's using flash, it's not really fixed.
flash is dying/dead, and you shouldn't give it an excuse to hang around.

LPChip

I know this topic is very old by now, but I think I finally have an explaination to everything.

I am running Windows 10 Pro N now upgraded. I always used the N version which is basically windows 10 without their Media Creation Pack installed.

I don't need Windows Media Player or its codecs as I rely on other sources. But some programs seem to require them.

I found out because the most recent Windows 10, Creators update caused to break things in an unpredictable way, until I found out that its the Windows Media Creation Pack that I had to install specifically for that windows build to make things work again.

To give an example, Spotify was working, after the update it wasn't. I installed the pack, and it worked again.

There are many different versions of this Media Creation Pack because each new build has a different version. Installing the wrong version won't trigger an error, but it won't function either. I suspect this is what the cause was back then.

I'm happy to report that toda, I don't have this issue any longer.