Chrome update to fix video quality issues in low resolution settings

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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A recent playback quality andcolourbugon Windows was reported by a user onChromium Gerrit. The OP observed aliasing andcolourissues in the video.

He said that when the video was played at a low resolution, like 144p and it was not occluded, aliasing/pixelation was observed.

But, surprisingly, the effect vanished when the mouse hovered over thescreen. A similar sort of issue affectedcolors. In the lightercoloursections of the video, when the mouse was moved over thescreenor thescreenwas scrolled down, thecolourof the video changed.

What was reported, is discussed below.

How to reproduce the problem

This section deals with the problem in the quality andcolourof the video and the changes that occurred in the quality andcolourof the playback when the mouse was moved over the video.

Aliasing:

Colour:

This was a strange thing observed. It was expected that the video should not be pixelated when not occluded and the videocolourshould not change when it was not occluded.

But the results were opposite to the anticipations and the video quality was dramatically worse when the mouse was not over the video. Whether this problem was withFlashor HTML5? It was withHTML5.

This issue was observed in:

Reportedly, this issue of video upscalingcan be solvedby calling SetBitmapInterpolationMode() to change the interpolation mode to linear.

Improve the video upscaling quality in low-resolution mode on Windows This is done by setting interpolation mode to linear indirect composition visual. The visual default is the nearest mode and the quality is not good. The upscaling quality improves after calling SetBitmapInterpolationMode() to change the interpolation mode to linear.

It is reported that thisbughas been fixed in the stable release ofChrome. But one user reports that he still observes this issue.

I am still seeing the behaviour on the stable release ofChrome. Has the finch change taken effect on the stable branch yet?

The upcomingChromeupdate will reportedly fix this issue for good.

Do you face a similar issue? Why not let us know in the comments below?

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