Chrome video noise

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 08:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/12/2012 08:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > F17 fully updated.
> >
> > I use Chrome (currently google-chrome-beta-24.0.1312.35-171386.x86_64)
> > as my main browser, but this may also apply to Chromium:
> >
> > For the last few weeks, every embedded video has had a lot of noise (or
> > snow) in the image. It looks very much like the problem a few months
> > back with external Flash libraries, but that was solved (originally via
> > a workaround posted by Linus, then apparently with a fix from Adobe).
> > The odd thing is that it seems to happen with any sort of video, not
> > just Flash.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing this? The same sites seen with Firefox all work
> > fine.
> >
> 
> FWIW, I use chrome...but I use google-chrome-stable-23.0.1271.95-169798.x86_64 and I've not seen any problems.  Have you tried switching to the "stable" version to compare?

Good call, that seems to be it. For some reason I've been using the beta
version of Chrome all this time without even realizing it. Maybe because
the same repo (called "stable") is used for both versions.

poc