Video colour difference between browsers

[Rob Bloomfield]

Hi,

I recently discovered a pretty significant colour difference when viewing YouTube videos in Chrome and Firefox. Colours appear much more desaturated, washed out and yellow/green tinted in Chrome compared to Firefox. After searching online for an explanation for this someone suggested turning on/off the hardware acceleration within the Chrome settings. This did certainly make a big difference but things were still not 100% correct, with the colours still being somewhat desaturated. Someone else suggested downloading Chrome Canary which I did and immediately noticed a big difference.

Can any one explain why this happens? Ideally I would like to keep using regular Chrome as all my settings, extension configurations, history, etc are there but the video colour issue remains. The problem only extends to video and nothing else, but it does affect all videos no matter which website (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).
I'll include a few examples below:

Chrome default:
http://i.imgur.com/oTPT6Fy.png

Firefox default:
http://i.imgur.com/AgM2bkC.png

Chrome hardware acceleration off:
http://i.imgur.com/OSXWAqs.png

Chrome hardware acceleration on:
http://i.imgur.com/42215jz.png

Chrome Canary:
http://i.imgur.com/Hi0HiKD.png

I should also mention that I did a clean uninstall and reinstall of the latest AMD video drivers which made no difference. The problem seems to exist purely within Chrome but there are no internal colour calibration tools available unfortunately.

Many thanks.

 

[Seankay]

These threads should explain it: https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/2o9x2x/why_is_video_content_color_so_inconsistent/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28603552/html5-video-color-difference-chrome-internet-explorer
https://themeforest.net/forums/thread/color-difference-between-chrome-and-firefox/41563