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Weird Youtube/Videoplayer problem

BlowfluBlowflu FloridaRegistered User regular
edited April 2012 in Help / Advice Forum
Over the last few days, I've been noticing that the default settings of youtube (and a few other video player services) have changed on my compy. When the video starts, there is a green line at the top of the screen that's about 1/10th the size of the video. Also, the colors are really off, and I believe this is some sort of 3d effect that I didn't know I enabled. I have to mess with the resolution settings (360i -> 260i or 360i -> 720p) to get rid of this effect, but I'm tired of doing it for EVERY video I watch. Where do I go to fix this?

Some additional info: I have a GTX 540 (nVidia GPU) with a Widescreen Monitor. I haven't updated drivers for at least a few months either. Thanks for any comments!

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Yeah, I've got this too. I was just about to make a thread because it is making things totally impossible to watch. It does it across all my browsers and flash is updated. It may be a graphics thing since I have an nVidia 280 GTX.

    EDIT: Success! Okay, so you mentioning your nvidia chip made me thing and lo and behold, nvidia did release new drivers that do have 'flash acceleration that improves performance.' It works just fine for me now. Give that a go yourself, sir. Hopefully it works!

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  • BlowfluBlowflu FloridaRegistered User regular
    Yup, for now updating the GPU driver seemed to fix it. Mods can lock, thanks for the tip Lucky Cynic (should have known this in the first place!).

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Oh nooo. I hate upgrading drivers when I don't need to. :/ It always breaks something.

    This is happening to me to, although going full screen takes away the green bar (It's not a 3D effect. You can see what's happening is that lights and darks are normally placed and colors are shifted down the span of the green bar). It started the last time I did an iTunes update, which is really weird.

    Anyway, good to know that a driver update resolves.

  • KatoKato Registered User regular
    I am a little curious about something here though. If the videos were working in the past with no problems and you had the old drivers, why would a new update of drivers suddenly prevent the videos and older drivers from working? I am not saying that this doesn't fix it...but I just don't completely follow how that works I guess. I would think that the new drivers would have been the culprit myself...not the old drivers that had been working the whole time.

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    I think updating the drivers fixes the problem, not causes it.

    I haven't updated yet - I'm still on the same drivers that I've been since I built the computer last fall. But the problem for me started just after I updated iTunes. I'm reasonably certain that's a coincidence, but something changed in the player settings that it seems a driver update resolves.

  • BlowfluBlowflu FloridaRegistered User regular
    For some reason, the problem just happened one day. If I had to guess, I'm sure some update to flash/java/other youtube scripts caused the issue with the video players as those may have had issues with older GPU drivers. But that's just a guess; updating the driver did work.

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