1163675 - Hardware acceleration causes videos to be low contrast, low vibrant, bleached

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1161349

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Menno555]

Attachment: firefox.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150415140819

Steps to reproduce:

Go to YouTube (just example for video) with hardware acceleration enabled: videos are low contrast, less vibrant, bleached.
Go to YouTube with hardware acceleration disabled and videos are as they should be with normal contrast, vibrant colors and so on.
See screenshots.


Actual results:

Videos are low contrast, less vibrant, bleached.


Expected results:

Videos are normal contrast, vibrant colors and so on.

Comment 1

[Menno555]

Attachment: i_explorer.jpg

Comment 2

[Menno555]

Forgot to mention: this has been going on some time now. I use NVidia Geforce drivers and they are always up to date. Using GeForce 350.12 now.
At the Mozilla forum it was suggested that there could be issues with graphics driver and Firefox.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Type about:support in the location bar and paste here the section "graphics".

Comment 4

[Menno555]

This is with Hardware acceleration enabled and giving the bad video play:

Adapter-RAM	4095
Adapterbeschrijving	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Adapterstuurprogramma’s	nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
ClearType-parameters	Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: R ClearType Level: 50 Enhanced Contrast: 100
Datum stuurprogramma	4-8-2015
Device-ID	0x13c2
Direct2D ingeschakeld	true
DirectWrite ingeschakeld	true (6.3.9600.17415)
GPU #2 actief	false
GPU-versnelde vensters	1/1 Direct3D 11 (OMTC)
Stuurprogrammaversie	9.18.13.5012
Subsys-ID	31601462
Vendor-ID	0x10de
WebGL-renderer	Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
windowLayerManagerRemote	true
AzureCanvasBackend	direct2d 1.1
AzureContentBackend	direct2d 1.1
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend	cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated	0

Comment 5

[Menno555]

This is with Hardware acceleration disabled and giving the good video play:

Adapter-RAM	4095
Adapterbeschrijving	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Adapterstuurprogramma’s	nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
ClearType-parameters	Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: R ClearType Level: 50 Enhanced Contrast: 100
Datum stuurprogramma	4-8-2015
Device-ID	0x13c2
DirectWrite ingeschakeld	false (6.3.9600.17415)
GPU #2 actief	false
GPU-versnelde vensters	0/1 Basic (OMTC)
Stuurprogrammaversie	9.18.13.5012
Subsys-ID	31601462
Vendor-ID	0x10de
WebGL-renderer	Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
windowLayerManagerRemote	true
AzureCanvasBackend	skia
AzureContentBackend	cairo
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend	cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated	0

Comment 6

[Menno555]

Extra info: in the NVidia Control Panel it is set that programs decide what settings to use. So I made no changes to those settings, these are default NVidia settings. And I leave it that way because changes in that section are system wide.

Comment 7

[Menno555]

Some more info: I tried it with webgl.disabled in about:config and hardware acceleration enabled but video is still not good. So WebGL is not the cause.

Comment 8

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

It looks like the hardware-accel version's black isn't true black. Decoding issue? Compositing?

Comment 9

[Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)]

Marking as a duplicate of bug 1161349 since that bug has some existing investigation in it.