Why are the embedded videos I try to watch all FUBAR?
November 18, 2011 6:59 PM
Why do many embedded videos look bright green and all pixel-y on my laptop?
This has been happening sporadically for me on a range of sites, everything from blogs to YouTube to news sites to Vimeo... yet other videos on those sites seem to display just fine, as does Hulu, Netflix etc.. Usually the audio plays clearly, the images are just blurred with huge pixels and typically a bright green hue. I'm on a PC with Windows 7.
So far Google only seems to yield tips on how to host videos so this doesn't happen, not how to view them when you're having the problem. Any ideas?
This has been happening sporadically for me on a range of sites, everything from blogs to YouTube to news sites to Vimeo... yet other videos on those sites seem to display just fine, as does Hulu, Netflix etc.. Usually the audio plays clearly, the images are just blurred with huge pixels and typically a bright green hue. I'm on a PC with Windows 7.
So far Google only seems to yield tips on how to host videos so this doesn't happen, not how to view them when you're having the problem. Any ideas?
Not sure what kind of PC you're on, but check recalls on your video card/laptop/desktop as well. Inspector.Gadget pretty well covered every other possibility.
posted by uncannyslacks at 7:30 PM on November 18, 2011
posted by uncannyslacks at 7:30 PM on November 18, 2011
This has happened to me in all browsers since the latest Flash update. On Windows 7 here too.
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:29 PM on November 18, 2011
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:29 PM on November 18, 2011
Oh, and I can usually help the situation by clicking the round runtime indicator on YouTube once or twice in Firefox and Chrome. Doesn't seem to work in IE.
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:30 PM on November 18, 2011
posted by cmgonzalez at 9:30 PM on November 18, 2011
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If this doesn't solve things, you may: have a hardware problem with your video card (least likely); watch a lot of poorly edited videos that at some point were encoded with B-frames and later re-encoded by someone who doesn't understand video compression (more likely); be using a driver from a manufacture that hasn't yet shipped a fix for Flash hardware acceleration (very likely at that point, and wholly inexcusable).
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 7:21 PM on November 18, 2011