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icedterminal
Nov 08, 2020Copper Contributor
Video Playback | Stutter and Contrast issues
From Stable to Canary, Edge has started to exhibit a problem with Nvidia GPUs during video playback. I am unsure if this a problem directly related to Nvidia or Chromium\Edge. For testing I used ...
Jotappe
Nov 11, 2020Copper Contributor
icedterminal Hey, I am exactly with the same issue. Have you find a solution for this? As you sayed, is a bug with all Chromium based browser(tested on Firefox, and its ok)
The partial solution is disable the Hardware Acceleration on the browser or using Firefox.
- icedterminalNov 12, 2020Copper Contributor
Jotappe It's both an issue with Chromium and Nvidia drivers. I found it on their forums. As of now, using software (CPU) decoding is a work around. Furthermore, Nvidia forums detail it's an issue as a whole for Chromium. This means that Vivaldi, Opera, Edge, Chrome, etc. are all affected. Firefox is entirely unaffected. It's not just YouTube either. Other sites that have video will behave the same. For now, it looks like Nvidia is working to debug this issue with Chromium.