Video quality is distorted?

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Berna

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I couldn't think of anything else to title this. Lately since I've had my PC formatted every YouTube video I watch has this thing. It's kinda like changing the quality back to 240p and then back to 360p, except it's not actually changing. I don't know how else to explain this, it's like the video quality constantly going back and forth from good to pixelated. I've only noticed this on YouTube so far, but I figured this would be a graphics card problem because I know it's not my internet, and it's only been happening since I got it back.
 
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Try updating your flash player, sometimes this can be a problem. Also try updating any graphics drivers and make sure you have the most modern browser version. Do you notice this on all youtube videos, or just some?
 
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Yeah it happens on all videos. Flash and browser are updated, not sure about the drivers.
 
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Why you are sure it is not your internet, It may be worth looking into.

Chances are your ISP does not own the link all the way from you to google(youtube), so any provider they have to run along may be having issues.

[strike]I think you can right click a playing video and do a report playback issue that used to show you your connection speed to them on previous attempts. It may also have suggestions.[/strike] Seems they do not have that setup anymore

The big ones would be to try another browser and try flash with hardware acceleration OFF.

Can we also get your system specs?
 
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Tried both Chrome and Firefox with no hardware accelaration, still the same problem. I know it's not my internet because this doesn't happen with other PCs or with mine before it was formatted. My specs are the following:

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Motherboard: ASUS M4A88T-M USB/3
CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.4Ghz
RAM: 4GB
GPU: Asus Radeon HD 6850
PSU: Corsair CX-500W
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200rpm
 
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I have them installed, and it happens with every video I watch, fullscreen too.
 
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are other sites like daily motion and vemeo effected. My only though here is that something is effecting your connection. I mean I know you have the bandwidth but after the reinstall something extra or missing would be the best bet.

Did you install any kind of traffic prioritize(QoS. sometimes a game performance ad on that comes with some boards) or anything. Are your network drivers the latest from the board/system makers website.

QoS services should provide a better experience with streaming video but it not properly designed or configured it could reduce the priority of these services leading the adaptive bit rate changes like you appear to be seeing.
 
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Yes other sites are affected aswell. I dont know if my network drivers are updated or not, where could I do that? also I'm using a cable connection
 
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I usually have around 8-10mb/s on speedtest.net, same as usual. I've also noticed that the dailymotion videos seem to get a bit choppy and lagged.
 
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The other user almost seems to have set his video options(AMD CCC or Nvidia CP) sharpness filter set to the max.

I just tested that and it can certainly hurt video quality.

Problem is this would effect other video players as well, but depending on the quality it may be less noticeable.
 
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Yeah it shouldn't be graphic card related cause I just set it to default settings and it still happens. Plus like you said, I don't notice any difference in games. I really don't know then
 
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The sharpness setting I speak of applies to videos only, but I am almost sure setting to defaults would remove it.

The only thing I can even think of now would be to attempt to use a browser plugin to download that has these issues and attempt playback in VLC(because it is rather hardware independent). The would at least confirm the video file is not part of the issue.
 
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I think it really is an internet/flash issue at this point. I thought the videos I downloaded from YT seemed to have jagged edges but I'm pretty sure it's because of the quality conversion. Plus my main problem is really the video substantially decreasing the quality in such a way that it looks 240/140p, and that only seems to happen on internet videos.
 
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