[Macbook Pro Retina, Mid-2014, High Sierra] Videos and gifv's flash while playing
I've tried Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox and Safari... this issue has been happening since before the upgrade to High Sierra. 75% of the time when I load a video on YouTube or Netflix or Reddit or any website, it'll flash white every couple of seconds. I can maximize the video, then return it to its normal size and it'll go away. Sometimes, I can refresh the webpage and it'll go away... but it's incredibly annoying.
I've Googled it and none of the fixes have helped. The only thing I haven't done is format the laptop and start over -- which I'd really prefer not to do.
Any advice? Thanks in advance!
Posted Nov 27, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC
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I have the same issue too(on any video site and goes away after a refresh) but mine only occurs maybe 10% of the time so I can't reproduce it often enough to test things. This is what my situation looks like on a Macbook Pro 2016: https://streamable.com/ij74k
Can you try running some tests? It will help me too *In chrome paste "chrome://flags/" into the search bar *Search for and disable "Hardware-accelerated video decode" *Restart browser and test
*If that doesn't work try doing the same for "Hardware-accelerated video encoder accessed using Mojo IPC". Test having both disabled or only one disabled
That's EXACTLY what mine does! And, if you notice, you'll see that the video is actually pausing and playing rapidly.
I'll run those tests throughout the week, then return a dataset that you can use to form into graphs if you prefer.