Video colors are all moved down.

• Medusa wrote on 2012-04-15 03:48
  this started happening today after i was uninstalling some games i no longer play, so i'm worried something may have gotten caught up in the process which is causing this.
  
  all videos are playing strangely. the image itself is intact, but the colors are all about half an inch lower and a green bar appears at the top. this is happening on most videos across all sites. the audio isn't affected, just the colors.
  
  

  [Image: http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7499/81ac20f5129843cdbe6d5ea.png]

  
  an example of an affected video.
• Osayidan wrote on 2012-04-15 03:55
  Since uninstalling the stuff have you tried restarting the browser, and if that didn't do anything restarting the PC?
  Try updating Flash if you're in any other browser than Chrome.
• animeshadows wrote on 2012-04-15 04:11
  The current version of flash has issues with hardware acceleration. Right click on the video player, click settings, and scroll through the options until you find hardware acceleration -- disable it.
• Medusa wrote on 2012-04-15 04:18

  Quote from animeshadows;838942:

  The current version of flash has issues with hardware acceleration. Right click on the video player, click settings, and scroll through the options until you find hardware acceleration -- disable it.

  
  
  i found this and disabled hardware acceleration, but it didn't change anything for the video and it reverted to being enabled when i refreshed the page.
  
  

  Quote from Osayidan;838931:

  Since uninstalling the stuff have you tried restarting the browser, and if that didn't do anything restarting the PC?
  Try updating Flash if you're in any other browser than Chrome.

  
  
  yes and yes.
  flash is up to date.
• TA wrote on 2012-04-15 11:20
  Try updating video drivers & codecs. I'd say codecs are more likely.
  
  http://shark007.net/
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-04-15 13:58
  If all else fails, getting the newest drivers for your video card might help. Sometimes I get weird buggy crap like this with my AMD card and that always fixes it.
  
  You can get them here if you've got an Nvidia card or here for an AMD card. If you don't know what you have, there's an autodetect feature available for download from both of them.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2012-04-15 19:30
  Or it might just be the browser after all. Reinstalling that is usually quick, but remember to save your bookmarks and all that stuff.
  
  I have trouble believing it's connected to one of the deinstallations, but then again I'm an amateur.
• Medusa wrote on 2012-04-15 22:52
  everything's up to date.
  
  also, some videos on the same site aren't affected. i was listening to some music on youtube and only about 80-90% of the videos are actually doing this.
• Tsubaki wrote on 2012-04-16 23:47

  Quote from Medusa;839374:

  everything's up to date.
  
  also, some videos on the same site aren't affected. i was listening to some music on youtube and only about 80-90% of the videos are actually doing this.

  
  
  if you're using an amd card, downgrade your drivers a bit
  
  amd drivers have more problems with each release
• TA wrote on 2012-04-17 01:06
  Try the codecs.
• Excalibur wrote on 2012-04-17 04:46
  Restart your PC before doing anything fancy.
• Medusa wrote on 2012-04-24 07:29
  so i'm still having this problem, nothing i've tried has worked thus far.
  
  - my pc, browser, etc have been restarted several times since this began.
  - i have tried everything suggested here.
  - the only videos affected are online videos (youtube, etc). videos i have saved on my computer play perfectly fine.
  
  i'm getting kind of desperate to fix this. - 3-;;
• TA wrote on 2012-04-24 08:35

  Quote from Medusa;838946:

  i found this and disabled hardware acceleration, but it didn't change anything for the video and it reverted to being enabled when i refreshed the page.

  
  
  Then the problem could still be this, and I assume now the problem is that your settings aren't sticking.
  
  Try running your browser as an administrator and doing it.
  
  If that doesn't work, you can try uninstalling and reinstalling Flash.
  
  If that doesn't work, try uninstalling flash and downloading an older version... but that tends to not be safe.
  
  If none of that works, you should ask Adobe for support, since it's a Flash problem.
• Taycat wrote on 2012-04-24 08:53
  If this only happens to your computer, which I'm pretty sure it does, then you need to make sure it's only flash on youtube that it's affecting.
• Medusa wrote on 2012-04-25 03:49

  Quote from TA;846890:

  Then the problem could still be this, and I assume now the problem is that your settings aren't sticking.
  
  Try running your browser as an administrator and doing it.
  
  If that doesn't work, you can try uninstalling and reinstalling Flash.
  
  If that doesn't work, try uninstalling flash and downloading an older version... but that tends to not be safe.
  
  If none of that works, you should ask Adobe for support, since it's a Flash problem.

  
  
  this finally worked and all my videos are playing normally again.
  
  thanks so much TA, and thanks everyone else for all the suggestions and help.