Using Flash in Opera

Greenlizard0 · 31 Jul 2009 at 01:15

This is irksome.

Throughout having different versions of Opera and Flash installed I have been unable to watch videos properly. This is because a little pause or hang occurs to the video (not sound) while playing. This occurs on iPlayer, BBC Sports' website, youtube - anything.

I try loading up the video's page in I.E. and the hang goes away.

The version of Opera is usually the latest, and so is Flash's. Restarting the browser, reinstalling both, using Opera's "identify as.." and "masquerade as..." functions don't seem to solve the problem. I'm having this issue across two machines. Does anybody know what is causing it?

Greenlizard0 · 31 Jul 2009 at 23:38

'Allo mate.

Ok, the version of Flash isn't today's one - it's the previous so that is worth trying. I'm on 9.64.

It's not a case of more working will get the video's to work - they've worked the same way right from when I've tried viewing video's in Opera; the sounds fine, the video has little stutters/pauses every 10 seconds or so.

It's perplexing since it happens on both my laptop and my main rig, so it sort of has to be a software problem in either or both running together.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Aug 2009 at 11:55

Coee hi there!

I agree with that - when it works it's fantastic. I've been thinking for a while now that speed was what kept me with it. But it's become more and more problematic, and with Chrome and Iron being much faster I'm getting tempted to give them both a much longer run.

Greenlizard0 · 1 Aug 2009 at 19:45

That's true - but one of the bigger reasons that I went with Opera was because it used to be the fastest. Now that Chrome/Iron are around I may as well try them if I have to still use a crap version of flash lol.

Greenlizard0 · 5 Aug 2009 at 14:23

Bump and :

http://www.xkcd.com/619/

Greenlizard0 · 5 Aug 2009 at 16:22

MarcLister said:
Haha.

It's not funny

Greenlizard0 · 6 Jan 2010 at 02:59

Going to bump this again.

I've just reinstalled my browser, and used Flash's own uninstall tool and reinstalled both versions of flash in Opera and I.E. Still the same problem, video stuttering on Opera and perfectly smooth playback in I.E.

Greenlizard0 · 6 Jan 2010 at 23:56

MarcLister said:
Still?

What version of Opera and Flash are you running? Just for the record.

I assume Firefox and Chrome are playing Flash OK?

What AV have you got? I can't see how this would happen but I wonder if your AV is interfering with the Opera files somehow.

Opera is version 10.10 build 1893
Flash for Opera is version 10.0.42.34
Flash for I.E. 7 is version 10.0.42.34
Flash uninstaller used is version 4.0.0.20
Av is Kaspersky version 2010 (9.0.0.736)*

*This is the latest build, though this problem as said has been with all versions of Kaspersky, Flash and Opera I have used.

I have just tested it with Chrome (installing after Flash even!), and it runs fine. I can test on FF as well but I don't think I have to.

Edit - must be said. Chrome's pretty fast.

Greenlizard0 · 7 Jan 2010 at 00:25

It's really bizarre. There's a "Pause Protection" function on Kaspersky and while testing I used it just to eliminate it as a cause. The stuttering still occured when it was off.

Greenlizard0 · 7 Jan 2010 at 00:56

The installation I have now is different to the one in August but the same problem occurs.

It's bizarre, but I suppose it's not as inconvenient as it used to be. I now watch Sky on the PC and that uses Silverlight so I'm used to have two tabs in I.E. permanently open (along with Opera). Just wondering if there was any reported problems.