FS#30844 - [chromium] White/orange spots in youtube videos.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Maciej Szlosarczyk (sosek) - Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 09:21 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Saturday, 11 August 2012, 13:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Since the update to the newest version of chrome I happen to see white/orange spots in youtube videos - not all of them, but some of them. As far as I understand it only happens in those that are still based on the FlashPlugin, not HTML5. It was an issue a few versions ago, but then it passed and it came back again.

Additional info:
* chromium 20.0.1132.57-2

Steps to reproduce:
Install newest chromium.
Open a youtube flash video.
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Saturday, 11 August 2012, 13:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 17:48 GMT
This is a bug in the Intel graphics driver. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95378
Chromium 20 seems to have reactivated GPU acceleration for Intel cards.
For me this only occurs in HTML5 videos and it appeared in the new PPAPI-Flash which I don't use anymore.
Comment by Maciej Szlosarczyk (sosek) - Thursday, 26 July 2012, 07:30 GMT
[Update]
I was wrong, it appears in HTML5 videos only on a computer with Intel graphics chipset. The workaround for now is to turn off the video feature of HTML5.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Friday, 27 July 2012, 02:30 GMT
As a workaround, try adding "--disable-accelerated-compositing" to CHROMIUM_FLAGS in /etc/chromium/default.

If you can replicate the issue with google-chrome [1] as well, you should consider reporting the issue on Chromium's issue tracker [2]. (Unless it's already been reported.)

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37469
[2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 08 August 2012, 14:07 GMT
Status in Chromium 21 and/or Chrome 21 (from the AUR) & with the above workaround?
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Saturday, 11 August 2012, 08:31 GMT
Chromium 21 has disabled GPU acceleration again. HTML5 Videos are OK now, WebGL does not work anymore (as it was with previous versions).

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