Opera 12 does not display videos on BBC website

Opera 12 does not display videos on BBC website

I can't get Opera 12 to display any videos on the BBC website, whereas 11.64 seemed OK. Internet Explorer works fine on the BBC site. I really like Opera and its speed-dial feature but unless this can be fixed it's not worth the bother.

Nothing wrong with playing any videos on the BBC web site here.

Same here since update to 12:

"Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version"

I did that a dozen times, no success. Any hints??

I also have different flash video problems on other sites: On pages with lots of embedded videos I often get "Plugin has crashed" messages on every video - on reload it usually works, but I never had those problems without this new "plugin wrapper".

The same here for me - have been using Opera and flash together for several years without problems

Since Switch to Opera v12 + Flash 11.3 most of the flash content is not working anymore (some does still work).

My Opera does not show the flash content on this website (as an example)
http://www.phoenix.de/content/502228

I know that some of you will immediately post that the site might be working for you and claim that it must be some other problem on my computer but I AM SURE that this has something to do with O12 or Flash 11.3 or with that new plugin_wrapper.

We need a fix or a workaround for this very soon. It really pisses me off that I can't downgrade because of the Mail Database Update in v12.

Opera does not crash, but the video is not played (instead there is only a block box whre the video should be)

Maybe there are different bugs concerning flash in the new versions because lots of users reporting problems with similar or different symptoms....

Win32 XP SP3 user here...

Originally posted by achim3:

We need a fix or a workaround for this very soon. It really pisses me off that I can't downgrade because of the Mail Database Update in v12.

See these threads:

How to downgrade to Opera 11.64 without mail problem:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1442132

Problems with Opera 12, but reverting to 11.64 mail doesn't work:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1449912

Thank you for your downgrading tip XP1, that worked for me.

Unfortunately Flash does still not play even after downgrading to Opera 11.64, (EDIT:this is true)
well looks like it may be actually caused by the flash player. (EDIT:this is NOT true)

Youtube videos and the testfile
http://www.phoenix.de/content/502228
(which is actually an embedded youtube video)
play fine when rendered via HTML5, but not with flash 11,3,300,262

I hear a lot of people have trouble with Adobe Flash 11.3, not just with Opera but with Firefox too. I haven't upgraded Adobe Flash. I am still using Adobe Flash 11.2.

Have you considered downgrading Adobe Flash as well?

Reading these may be helpful:

Flash 11.3 doesn't load video in Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-doesnt-load-video-firefox

Flash Player 11.3 Status Updates:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1024504/

Flash Player 11.3 Audio Update:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1026022/

Flash Player Help / Compatibility issues | RealPlayer extension, Mozilla Firefox | 11.3:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-113-crash-mozilla.html

How do I troubleshoot Flash Player's protected mode for Firefox?:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018071/

Have you considered downgrading Adobe Flash as well?

I have tried that, I can't find a way to fix those flash problems at all anymore

Opera just won't play flash on my computer any longer...
No other Opera Plugin than Flash is activated.

Tried:
Opera 12 Final + Flash 11,3,300,262
Opera 12 Final + Flash 11.2.202.233
Opera 12 Final + Flash 11,1,102,63
Opera 11.64 + Flash 11,3,300,262
Opera 11.64 + Flash 11,1,102,63
Opera 11.62 + Flash 11,1,102,63

None of them is working any longer

Please note that Firefox is playing Flash videos correctly on my system.

Previously Opera could play Flash too
I am not sure what caused it to break because I can't get it to work even after downgrading opera, downgrading flash, uninstalling latest microsoft updates....

I have no clue what fragged it, but Firefox is doing fine.

I even tried to manually uninstall my complete opera install.
Afterwards I manually deleted
\Dokumente und Einstellungen\myuser\anwendungsdaten\opera
\Dokumente und Einstellungen\myuser\lokale einstellungen\anwendungsdaten\opera
then i reinstalled opera [different versions] (so the profile must be fresh)
started it, flash is still broken (in fact not a single youtube FLASH video is playing, HTML5 is fine)

I am running out of ideas how to fix this, I don't really want to switch to Firefox or Chrome..... :-(

System: WIndows XP Pro SP3 32Bit german
CPU:Intel Pentium E5200
GPU:ATI 4350 (Catalyst 8.812.0.0)

Okay I verified: THIS is definetely an Opera Problem caused by Opera 12

This is what I did:
Restoring an old system partition image
(there was Opera 11.52 and Flash 11.1.102.55 installed)
The Flash videos did work with that install

I updated to Opera v12
Afterwards Flash videos in Opera were broken (i did not touch the flash version on that setup)

Originally posted by achim3:

Okay I verified: THIS is definetely an Opera Problem caused by Opera 12

This is what I did:
Restoring an old system partition image
(there was Opera 11.52 and Flash 11.1.102.55 installed)
The Flash videos did work with that install

I updated to Opera v12
Afterwards Flash videos in Opera were broken (i did not touch the flash version on that setup)

I started a clean install of Windows XP SP3 x86 English in a virtual machine.

1. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 (32-bit) (Non-IE) [English].
2. Install Opera_1152_int_Setup.exe [English].
3. Flash works. YouTube video test.
4. Restart.
5. Install Opera_1200_int_Setup.exe [English], upgrade existing profile.
6. Flash works. YouTube video test.
7. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.262 (32-bit) (Non-IE) [English].
8. Flash works. YouTube video test.

I am not sure if German installations have any effect.

Were your Opera installations in German? Were your Flash installers in German?

It is reproducable here.

Opera 11.52 german is fine (both Flash 11.1.102.55 and 11,3,300,262 both work with this old Opera Version)
Flash is german too
Windows XP SP3 is german

As soon as I update to Opera 12 flash is broken (with both Flash versions)

I switched back to my main productive system (the current state) and I can observe the same behaviour there.

I am currently trying to import my mail and all the settings to the old Opera Version and observed another thing (tested on 11.52):
\Dokumente und Einstellungen\myuser\anwendungsdaten\opera\opera\operaprefs.ini
if i take this file from original opera 11.52 install, flash videos will work, if i take the version from my opera 12 setup, flash will NOT work, i get an error that i should update to newer flash versions [please note, that this is not the problem that i experienced at the beginning (i saw black boxes then)]


If I just update to v12 I see the black boxes again, so it seems like two different problems....

If I update to v12 and take the operaprefs.ini from 11.52 I still have the black boxes

Originally posted by achim3:

I am currently trying to import my mail and all the settings to the old Opera Version and observed another thing (tested on 11.52):
\Dokumente und Einstellungen\myuser\anwendungsdaten\opera\opera\operaprefs.ini
if i take this file from original opera 11.52 install, flash videos will work, if i take the version from my opera 12 setup, flash will NOT work, i get an error that i should update to newer flash versions [please note, that this is not the problem that i experienced at the beginning (i saw black boxes then)]

Are you able to compare the differences between the two "operaprefs.ini"?

Another thing:
1.) Upgrading from working 11.52 to v12 -> black boxes
2.) Downgrading to 11.52 -> please install latest flash
3.) exchanging operaprefs.ini -> everything is working again as it should

So the "Please upgrade your flash" seems to have something to do with the operaprefs file

And the black boxes problem seems to have something to do with newer Opera versions in general (11.52 is fine)


>>Are you able to compare the differences between the two "operaprefs.ini"?
There are lots of changes between the two files (I would send them to you via email if you want to have a look by yourself)

However I can not get my mail working with 11.52
index.ini has been set from 13 to 12 and I still get the following error message:

"
Es gab ein Problem mit der Initialisierung von Opera Mail.
Not possible to run old Opera version with new Opera mail files.
AccountManager Init failed
"

A fixed v12 with proper flash support or a hack of this mail failure, both would be very fine for me....

Please let me know if you want my two operaprefs.ini files for review....

I got the difference between the operaprefs.ini
Forget the ini file thing
In the version that issued "please update flash" there was simply flash plugin deactivated....

However to give a summary:
Opera 11.52 ger + Flash = works fine (not dependant on Flash version)
Opera 12.00 ger + Flash = black boxes (not dependant on Flash version)

Well, it seems I'm not alone. I don't get any clue as to what's happening. The video frame just remains blank with no error message or any indication that anything is being downloaded. I have two computers, one running Opera 12 and IE on Windows 7 and the other running IE and Opera 11.64 under XP. The fact is that with the same website IE and 11.64 works and 12 doesn't. Time to give up on Opera I think

I am very new to this, so I apologise if I make any mistakes.

I have had no end of problems with XP Media Centre Edition 2002 32 Bit with SP3 since upgrading to Opera12 build 1467 and updating to Flashplayer 11.3.300.257 and plug in 11.3.300.262. I can't play any videos in The Daily Mail Online or You Tube, nor BBC iPlayer, unless I use IE8. I thought it might be Nero 9 but having finally gotten rid of that hideous behemoth there was no improvement. I have just checked my laptop which is Windows 7 64 Bit with Flashplayer Active X 64 Bit 11.2.202.235 and plug in 11.3.300.262 and it all works fine with Opera 12. So this appears to be an XP and Opera problem. Having spent the last 24 hours at this I am now going to bed. Cheers and Goodnight.

I am having a problem that seems related. I just updated to Opera 12, and then was asked to upgrade to Flash 11.3 inside a flash window. I did so. However, the upgrade process was not seamless. First time around, it simply failed because there was a Flash window active (the one from which the upgrade process started). Unfortunately, it didn't remind me to close Opera first, but simply failed. After trying again, I now closed Opera after the install process was started, but before I clicked "install" in the installer window. After the install, Opera was automatically started to display the success page. The page did not load (not at all, it showed the unknown domain error page) but I now had the new version, and could watch the movie. However, this was only temporary, when I opened a new tab with a different Flash movie, Flash asked to be updated again! I tried downloading the Flash installer (instead of clicking the "update" button in the Flash window), saving it to disk, shutting down Opera (no other browser running), running the installer to completion, whereupon Opera was automatically started to display the success page. Now, every Flash player in Opera reports as being version 8! I have Flash version 11.3.300.257 in Chrome.

I can confirm that that black box problem is not reproducable with a windows XP Pro 64Bit edition (Opera 12 x64 or x32 both work fine)

Can not tell which flash version is installed on that system though (it's my computer at work)
this setup works:
XP x64 (is only available in english)
flash version NPSWF32_11_3_300_257.dll (32bit english)
opera 12 (x32 or x64 ENGLISH)

So the problem could be related to x32 vs x64 (flash or windows)
or with german vs english (opera or windows or flash)....

Could be working only by chance too, but probably this is a help..

After upgrading to Opera 12.00, I'm getting a silly placeholder image with the text "plug-in has crashed."

Was using OpenSUSE 11.4 (x32) with Flash player 11.2.202.236-17.1 installed. Upgraded Flash player to 11.2.202.236-91.1 and Flashcrapper still crashes and displays the silly placeholder image. Chromium is also unable to load the plug-in and Flamepig, er I mean Firefox, being the knot on a log it is, just displays a black box.

Soooooooo... It appears to be more problematic Flashcrapper crap. Maybe I'll try a downgrade later. However, I'm not feeling lucky. Crap!

Adobe Flash needs to just die and go away forever.

Important information concerning FlashPlayer DLL probably bundled with Opera 12: I had all kinds of Flash problems after upgrading to Opera 12, missing buttons etc - until I discovered (from a posting in some other place) that there is a _6 year old DLL_ in the folder /program files/opera/program/plugins: NPSWF32.dll

It's actually FlashPlayer 9 from 2006... I have no idea how that DLL got there ( I didn't place it there, and it cannot be remains from 2006 since I set up new installations since then), but replacing the DLL with a current one like NPSWF32_11_3_300_262.dll solved all problems for me.

UPDATE:

Youtoob now working in Opera 12.00. I disabled plug-ins <F12> and now it seems Opera and HTML5 handle youtoobs. Updated YousableTubeFix for Opera http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36453 to stop youtoob's obnoxious autoplay to get back something akin to using "enable plug-ins on demand".

This doesn't remedy Flashcrap not working in the FlamePig and Chromagnium-man browsers, though.

For what it's worth, I've been plagued with this problem since first updating to O12. Today, I stumbled across this: In my plugins listing, I saw two plugins referring to Shockwave Flash. One was the regular Flash player. The other was Flash for Director. I disabled that latter one, and, mirable dictu, Flash videos started working again. So, it's not exactly a fix, but, if you have both of those showing, try disabling the one "for Director."

M

Later: No, that didn't work. Or, rather, it seemed to work once, and then failed. It appears that SOME video works and some does not. No clue why. At this point, the only sure way to reproduce the problem is to upgrade from O11 to O12. Which ought to be a clue.

I also have this problem running Opera 12 on a mac with OS 10.6 and any recent version of Flash Player (I've tried reverting to earlier versions). What actually happens is that the videos (BBC news site plus iPlayer) load up OK but start to blink (flash!) when they start to play. This also happens disastrously on Google Maps in Street View which flashes madly and is unusable.
I have reverted to Opera 11.6.4 with the latest Flash Player and the problem is gone so there I shall stay until someone admits to, explains and solves the problem. Incidentally, I rather liked the choice of a colour scheme as a simple customisation option and that has also disappeared with version 12.
I have used Opera now, on and off, for many years but there always seems to have been one or more annoying glitches to spoil the product, forcing me to revert to Safari.
What I have now with version 11.6.4 is probably the best so far and I'm enjoying watching the Olympics live. Does nobody test the new versions with simple, common, applications like Flash Player?

adding my computer to the flash problem too and it also started with opera upgrade

since reading this thread---it is abundantly apparent that it's opera's fault and not my computer

otherwise if it were my computer----flash would not have worked before upgrade. which it did.

going to try the dll change and see if that works and if not i'm trying to go back to a previous version of opera and see what that does.

guess that's all we can do til opera figures out what they messed up

btw
i'm still having problem with opera hanging up at times and it seems cache related, but i'm not saavy enough to analyze it myself.

hopefully smarter people will figure it out for me?


gotten use to operai and do not wish to switch to another browser,,,like firefox (ugh!)

thx

======

just unistalled current version of opera and installed version 11.62
installed flash and now it functions fine

opera needs to call an exterminator...cause it seems has a bug to fix
lol

(i still prefer opera tho)

Opera is trying to destroy my efforts by insisting on updates when I open my old version! Deselecting automatic updates made no difference. I think I've sorted it by removing "Updater.app" from (on a Mac) /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/Resources
Why do we bother?

Thanks Tenor, that's me sorted - I just renamed that dll to be .old, and now I can view videos on the bbc site.

My pc is from about 3 years ago, so I'm not sure why I have such an old dll in there, but fingers crossed this is the end of my issues.

cheers

Thanks, Tenor, I removed all the old NP*.* files which dated from 2008 and all is well! Flash now works again. It was getting to the point where I thought I would have to abandon Opera after very many years.

I had to make a clean install to get videos working again. I made a backup of the user Opera directory which for a Mac is

/Users/yourusername/Library/Opera/

and as I'm using mail I made a backup of this directory as well:
/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/Opera/mail

Then I downloaded an installation package and dragged the old mail folder to the new one. As I had website passwords saved I then moved over the wand.dat file from the old Opera directory to the new one.

I also thought I was going to have to abandone Opera or be stuck with v11 but now life is dandy again.

For users on other platforms the directory paths can be found sticking this into the url field:
opera:about (for the Opera directory)
opera:config#Mail|MailRootDirectory
opera:config#wand

I had the same problem with BBC iplayer. I uninstalled adobe flashplayer, deleted all old .dll files except the quicktime ones from C:\Program Files\Opera\program\plugins, reinstalled he latest adobe flashplayer and BBC content now plays.

Originally posted by tenor:

Same here since update to 12:

"Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player. Download the correct version"

I did that a dozen times, no success. Any hints??

I also have different flash video problems on other sites: On pages with lots of embedded videos I often get "Plugin has crashed" messages on every video - on reload it usually works, but I never had those problems without this new "plugin wrapper".

I uninstalled latest Flash - 11.4 - then installed Flash 10.3. That fixed things for now. I notified Opera team about this issue. One suggestion I've seen on this Forum is to uninstall Opera, then reinstall from scratch. May try that later.

Anyone else having the problem that 99% of embedded videos don't show after the latest Opera update?

They appear briefly for half a second, after that it's either a black box or just nothing. This time there is no old Flash Player version installed by Opera insaller, and videos play fine directly on YouTube, just not embedded. Of course it works in Firefox, and I have to say I'm nearing the point where I've had enough of these problems...

Flash videos were never a problem in Opera since they exist, now I constantly have to waste time to get them running again.

EDIT: This seems to affect only YouTube videos, for example BBC videos are working fine. I'll check for reports of this being a YouTube problem.

Just type opera:plugins in adress field and disable all the old versions of flashplayer. Just keep the latest version. It will fix the problem.

Thanks, but no old versions here, just this one:

Shockwave Flash - 11,4,402,265
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.4 r402
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_11_4_402_265.dll

I had the same issue (blank/empty space in place where there flash move suppose to run) and I fixed it by disabling the hardware acceleration in opera settings :
opera:config -> serach for "Enable Hardware Acceleration" and set it to 0

Fantastic, that did it! Thanks a million!

Just a note from the Linux side of the coin: Flash videos are variable - BBC; YouTube etc... all ok. The Daily Telegraph just
displays a white box. 'Config' options mentioned in the thread have been tried, to no avail. It looks like it /could/ be a
quirk in the Telegraph's web-page, as all other flash videos tried, on other sites, have worked.

For the record:
Opera: 12.02; Build: 1578; Browser I.D. : Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-GB) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.02
O.S. : Arch Linux, 32-bit
Kernel: 3.5.3-1-ARCH

UPDATE:

Solved. In the Flash Plugin Settings, you must 'Allow Sites to Save Information on this Computer' for videos to work, at
least in the Torygraph !

Originally posted by dicktater:

UPDATE:

Youtoob now working in Opera 12.00. I disabled plug-ins <F12> and now it seems Opera and HTML5 handle youtoobs. Updated YousableTubeFix for Opera http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36453 to stop youtoob's obnoxious autoplay to get back something akin to using "enable plug-ins on demand".

This doesn't remedy Flashcrap not working in the FlamePig and Chromagnium-man browsers, though.

THANK YOU.

I did not disable plugins, or do anything else, other than install the script you linked. YouTube works fine now.

My problem was this: *SOME* YouTube videos not playing. Every flash version I tried in IE worked fine. Only tried last 2 Flash versions in Opera 12 and it did not work. Since Opera 10, I've had troubles with YouTube videos and usually resorted to various fixes found here on the forums - each time, it was a different fix. Never knew about this script until your post. Since it fixed it without me installing/uninstalling anything, I assume I'm set for the future.
Thanks again

Hi, been having this problem with flash clips, especially with on-line news clips, but seem to have sorted it by disabling the content blocker.

In the address bar type opera:config> Select> Network> untick content blocker> save

I'm pretty sure most of you probably are aware of this but though it was worth posting if not.

Cheers

Hey guys, have you ever tried the opera next 12??
try it..
maybe this will do the trick..
i spend hours searching on how to get the perfect plug-in for the opera 12 but nothing works..
then i saw this OPERA NEXT..
try it. then just turn on the opera turbo if its slow..
here's the link guys..
http://www.opera.com/browser/next/
Oh!! by the way.. determine first if your system is 32-bit or 64 bit

http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/videos/christmas-2012-teaser/ Tells me I need to update flash player, but here on OS X 10.7.5 I have flash player fully updated (confirmed by the update checker) I think BBC video player might be breaking w/ On Demand Plug ins

Trying to poke them on twitter

Originally posted by Chas4:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/doctor-who/videos/christmas-2012-teaser/ Tells me I need to update flash player, but here on OS X 10.7.5 I have flash player fully updated (confirmed by the update checker) I think BBC video player might be breaking w/ On Demand Plug ins

Works here on Win7.

Originally posted by LeoCG:

Works here on Win7.

Works here now (after a restart) looks like a bug in the BBC America site cause the video player not to check first for flash player

Hah! after about 2 months wrestling with this problem I finally cracked it.

I couldn't even see the video block on BBC websites. None of the changes I made in "Preferences" did any good - I had a "working" Opera open side by side with my troublesome version 12.13 (though this problem goes back a few versions) so I finally decided to check through the settings in Opera:config in both browsers.

I made a few changes and Hey Presto! Back came the familiar black video block with the red spinning thing - then... perfect video again on the BBC website. No more having to switch browsers to view them, or even to do their 7 days news quiz every Friday.