HTML5 videos are too bright only in Chrome without hardware acceleration

[Agent Z]

Let's start with saying that I refuse to use hardware acceleration in Chrome for several reasons therefore the video color settings in Nvidia control panel have no effect. If I have hardware acceleration enabled the issue I'll descibe doesn't exist.

So, I noticed that in Chrome HTML5 Youtube videos are way too bright but they're fine in Firefox.

If I force Flash instead of HTML5 the colors are good but everything else is bad it being flash.

I've tried two different Chrome versions with extensions disabled and played around with a lot of various flags but none of them helped. Also tried h264ify and that didn't help either.

In FF with the same settings (hardware acceleration disabled, HTML5) everything looks fine.

Screenshots:
Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/v5S38Th.png
Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/pmCGESA.png

It's probably not the best place to post this, but I'm completely baffled why it's happening and it's hard to google this issue.

 

[Chas_1]

more then likely to do with the drm inbound with chrome See >>MSE it is to do with implementation of MSE as a drm and this is why you cant play youtube at 60fps in anything but chrome. (at lest this was true not sure if still is)


be as these are the only differences i can see between FF and Chrom but as an aside... dud just turn on video acceleration ? whats the deal with not allowing video..... acceleration on... a.... video >?

 

[Agent Z]

I have a 3 monitor setup with an i7-6800K and a GTX 1070 yet with hardware acceleration enabled I get stuttering and lower FPS in games and/or the video will stutter in the background (audio too) so that's out of the question.

I don't think it's MSE because in flash mode the videos look fine and I assume it still goes through MSE.