Youtube Video Quality

[Alanon]

So I upgrade to the latest flash and get the "black full-screen" error. There's no fix for it, just a workaround if you disable Adobe's hardware acceleration option. Thing is, when you do that, and go full-screen, the player displays a choppy low-res control bar, and generally even decreases the quality of the pictures displayed.

I've tested this on several HD trailers, with and without full-screen. I use a script that enlarges the ordinary video to fill the borders of the web-page, so I compared the full-screen images to this non-fullscreen enlarged as much as possible. The difference was notable, the non-accelerated version showing choppy edges of peoples' faces, and a general grainy feel of everything. Looked more like mid-range 480p than 720p.

I've also browsed the Catalyst Control Centre for settings to address the issues, but haven't found anything. Browsed the internet a bit too, and no-one seems to notice this difference. So, here's a question for you guys, if you had that error, did you see the difference, and what did you do to fix it, if anything? To those who hadn't experienced it, do you use AMD cards?

[Rivenson]

Works fine here

I'm on Firefox 25, latest flash with default settings

on Xp Sp3 with Ati HD5770 and Catalyst 11.12..

Full screen at 1080p and 720p seems ok.

[jackieo]

What operating system? what browser?

Are you using the new HTML5 player trial, or just regular old you tube? I use FF and im not having any issues.

Running Win 7

your video card settings will have no effect on web flash video. ( as far as my experience goes)

my laptop has AMD Radeon HD4200 no issues. latest drivers. 13.9

try removing adobe flash drivers and reinstall from adobe.com

you dont have someone else using your computer by any chance?

and maybe they got one of those website popups that says INSTALL FLASH, YOUR DRIVERS ARE OUT OF DATE...

NEVER CLICK ON THOSE,

if adobe flash needs updating, usually you get a box popup on your desktop, when you boot your pc.

not from a website. Now if you are on you tube and you do not have flash installed, the video player will have a blank screen and a link for flash install. (usually)

Edited December 26, 2013 by jackieo

[Alanon]

WIn 7, FF latest beta, latest Flash, latest drivers. No "unwanted" stuff on my PC, or embedded in the browser. :dunno:

[unknownasphyxiated]

So I upgrade to the latest flash and get the "black full-screen" error.

does this "black full-screen" error happen where the red play button doesn't appear?

[jackieo]

Firefox Beta? that might be the reason. I never use beta soft for web. weird things happen, just like you are talking about.

Always use the latest stable version of any app, (for sanity purposes) that way when things go wrong, it removes alot of questions.

software in beta usually has bugs...looks like you are experiencing just that.

Edited December 26, 2013 by jackieo

[unknownasphyxiated]

firefox beta is not like a beta software because even final like beta

haha

ff27b2+ff&flash hardware acceleration+nvidia here, no problem

i will try the same setup on my friend laptop,amd

[jackieo]

firefox beta is not like a beta software because even final like beta

haha

ff27b2+ff&flash hardware acceleration+nvidia here, no problem

i will try the same setup on my friend laptop,amd

I almost took you as being serious, I see you making a joke.. haha nice 1

[unknownasphyxiated]

:P

[mazigh]

WIn 7, FF latest beta, latest Flash, latest drivers. No "unwanted" stuff on my PC, or embedded in the browser. :dunno:

Try this : http://www.chromeactions.com/

Go to settings choose to force HTML5 mode and the quality you want, Flash is taking a lot of ressources

[John_Anonymous_Doe]

Works fine here also, using the latest Chromium 34 and extension YouTube Center Dev build 145, and beta version of Flash Player.

[Alanon]

I don't get why I'm getting this black screen issue. Unfortunately, the add-on mazigh suggested is a bit buggy for me, but it gave me an idea, so I found a Greasemonkey script that forces the html5 player to run, and it works as it should in full-screen now.

Only issue seems to be that the video always remains attached to the upper left edges, so the image is never enlarged to fit the player, no matter what size. It only works in full-screen, which finally works.

[John_Anonymous_Doe]

I don't get why I'm getting this black screen issue. Unfortunately, the add-on mazigh suggested is a bit buggy for me, but it gave me an idea, so I found a Greasemonkey script that forces the html5 player to run, and it works as it should in full-screen now.

Only issue seems to be that the video always remains attached to the upper left edges, so the image is never enlarged to fit the player, no matter what size. It only works in full-screen, which finally works.

What browser you are using? There's known issues in Chrome/Chromium which corrupts Flash Player when opening YouTube video in new tab, that will cause black screen.

Also if you have flags enabled in Chromium, i.e:

--enable-d3d11

--enable-map-image

Those flags might cause black screen also, there's known issues.

Edited December 27, 2013 by John_Anonymous_Doe