Topic: Video gets out of sync with audio when switching tabs in Opera

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Found a small bug when accessing the site with Opera browsers. If I got a post with webm running on one tab and switch to another in the window, the audio plays as normal. But when I switch back to the webm's tab after letting it play for a bit (10 seconds or more it looks like), the video gets delays from the audio by about 1 second. Sometimes the audio flickers back for a fraction of a second, or both skip forward a bit.

  • Repeatable on both desktop (Windows 10) and laptop (Windows 11).
  • Repeatable with Opera and Opera GX.
  • Repeatable with any webm posted by myself or others.
    • Repeatable with very short videos (<10s) IF looping offscreen.
    • Repeatable if switching to another tab with webm, including duplicates of original tab.
    • Repeatable if tab has been muted.
  • Not repeatable with Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
  • Not repeatable with other video-hosting websites.
  • Interacting with a second window does not cause it.
  • Resyncs after refreshing the page, manually moving the slider, or looping when tab is selected.
  • Once got the glitch to occur when the video was paused and it unpaused weird.

I was touching grass when the update added AV1 MP4 support, so I don't know if this has to do with that change and if it started around then.

Donovan DMC

Former Staff

That's definitely a browser issue
The site uses your browser's built in player