v27.3 Video Playback big gissues

[nimanima]

Version 27.3 seems to have bigger problems in playing videos (YouTube, Facebook, other video portals linked to on Facebook) than the previous version, hardly anything plays at all. Rotating loading wheel or black square. This MSE thing is disabled, and I use no Flash Player since 2014.

[Nigaikaze]

hardly anything plays at all.

Can you provide URLs of specific examples ... ?

[nimanima]

Well, the worst was this one here: black square not even loading and when I rightclicked it told me something about a ZK Player or some such thing:
http://lovewithcats.com/guy-spots-tiny- ... wing-at-it

I searched for another source for tzhat video by the topic and came on this page:

http://themeowpost.com/guy-spots-tiny-b ... -response/

Permanent loading wheel, but at least here I could see the video is on YouTube, so I went to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJXrA4J-Bc

but it still didn't play. At least I could download it from YouTube with an add-on.

Another one was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDJOv2iu4L0

All YouTube videos first are stuck on loading, but when I once click on the play/pause button and then click the play/pause button again the loading bar above the time indicator usually fills and the thing starts to play at some point.

Other videos were on Facebook like this one:
https://www.facebook.com/catslifeus/vid ... 879406889/

which I also had to download first before being able to watch..

On version 27.2.1 (which I am using now again) they all play.

[trava90]

Except for the top link, all the videos play fine for me.

[satrow]

The top video plays fine for me, native mode, no MSE.

[almaecaron]

All of the videos above play in native mode but I can't get any of the below videos to play in native mode or with MSE enabled...

http://www.reuters.com/video

Version: 27.3.0 (32-bit) Windows 7

[badnick]

All videos play for me.

[rabnbeinn]

Yup, all play fine for me too, although had to disable adblocker for 1st vid to play.

win 8.1(x64)
PM 27.3(x64)
All 3 MSE boxes ticked
User Agent Mode: Firefox Compatibility

[atarirules]

Hello. I may have found a solution to this issue.

I was also experiencing severe issues with video playback. I found that once I disabled Hyper-V, videos worked again!
(BTW I was able to play video from all of the links on this page...)

This issue has affected me in both Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 and on my Windows 7 Professional machine, both 64 bits, with Pale Moon 27.3.0 64 bit.

I verified that this was the problem by setting Hyper-V up again on both machines, and the video playback issues returned.

I hope this information may be of help!

[Zootopia3000]

Rotating loading wheel or black square

Maybe you disabled media autoplay in about:config

Go to about:config
Type autoplay in the address box
Make sure both of these have True values:
media.autoplay.allowscripted
media.autoplay.enabled

[BenFenner]

Yup, all play fine for me too, although had to disable adblocker for 1st vid to play.

Same here.

Off-topic:
I have found that if Pale Moon is taking up over 1 GB of RAM I can run into video playback issues on YouTube. This is a relatively new problem that I've been holding off on reporting until it gets more serious.

[Maarten]

The videos that nimanima post all work here to but I also come across videos that won't load.

Example:
http://www.bndestem.nl/buitenland/verke ... vaf77dcf8/
After I press the wihte triangle, a white circle kees rotating.

PM 27.3.0, both config values that Zootopia3000 post are true

[coffeebreak]

http://www.bndestem.nl/buitenland/verkeerscampagne-jaagt-voetgangers-stuipen-op-het-lijf~vaf77dcf8/
After I press the wihte triangle, a white circle kees rotating.

Get the same result as @Maarten.
Tried different MSE settings, UA compat settings/vanilla FF 52 UA override, cookies/storage accepted, blockers off -- video wouldn't load. (PM 27.3 Win 7 x86)

Console:

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Error: Error: No valid set-up! Add a DFP network ID 
Source File: https://www.bndestem.nl/static/sbndestem/js/advertising-c4138dea40.js Line: 3 

Error: Error: Permission denied to access property "href" 

Error: SecurityError: The operation is insecure. 
Source File: https://player.ooyala.com/static/cacheable/84f213d7453fbc34816c118bd5a4a70c/ooyala_storage.html Line: 31 

Error: XML Parsing Error: no root element found 
Location: https://l.ooyala.com/verify Line Number 1, Column 1: Source File: https://l.ooyala.com/verify Line: 1

[Maarten]

Oh, and about the YT video's: when I get an ad in YT, I can't skip the ad (the "you can skip this ad in x seconds button"), nor will the video play after the ad is done. It takes a few reloads until the YT video appears.

[coffeebreak]

Oh, and about the YT video's...

I don't have the problems you describe with YouTube videos. Please post links to examples.

And just a suggestion/personal opinion...
The reasons for problems streaming videos can vary with the video and site, so it may be more useful (both for you and for whoever responds) if you make separate threads for distinct situations - either based on the site where the video is embedded, or based on other common aspects of the problem you've encountered.

[Maarten]

Oh, and about the YT video's...

Please post links to examples.

That's difficult, ads come randomly. I can give you a link to a YT video but there is no guarantee you'll get an ad. The only thing I can do is sit with a videocamera and record it.

[back2themoon]

Only issue I'm having is no audio in Facebook videos (example) but I guess it's a known issue (audio plays fine with MSE disabled).

[Mom-Kat]

Off-topic:
I have found that if Pale Moon is taking up over 1 GB of RAM I can run into video playback issues on YouTube. This is a relatively new problem that I've been holding off on reporting until it gets more serious.

THIS!! I have been cussing Pale Moon all morning. I've tried every fix in this thread and could NOT get You Tube to play. Then I HAPPENED to read this 'Off Topic' - and saw PM running over 2 GB of ram in Task Manager. So, I closed (with a plug-in error in the meantime) re-opened and VOILA - You Tube. There is a problem here.
Win 7 64 bit - PM 27.3.0 also 64 bit.

My computer is almost constantly on - as is my browser, as I do site work in it. Restarting is an option, but a real pain.

[trava90]

Try unstable builds and see if these problems have already been fixed.

[coffeebreak]

http://www.bndestem.nl/buitenland/verkeerscampagne-jaagt-voetgangers-stuipen-op-het-lijf~vaf77dcf8/
After I press the wihte triangle, a white circle kees rotating.

Get the same result as @Maarten.

Revisited this with PM unstable-20170604, but also with 27.3 - and it played fine in both.
Previously had accepted bndestem.nl first-party cookies, but no third-party. However the site also requires cookies from ad.nl for the video to load. Once those were accepted, video loaded and played perfectly here in both unstable build and PM 27.3.