Youtube video player earthquakes

• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-04 08:16
  Today I''ve been having a really weird issue with youtube, all the videos shake like there's an earthquake nonstop. I think it might be my flash but I don't really know how to fix it.
  
  
  

  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/CGD4U.jpg]

  
  
  If you don't understand, look at the play/loading bar, then imagine it shaking nonstop. Now apply that to the whole video.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-08-04 14:19
  Check your GPU settings.
  
  Sometimes they automatically adjust with driver updates and make text/visual things in general do dumb stuff like this in an attempt to make them look better.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-04 22:45
  Where would I see that?
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-08-05 03:20
  [Image: http://i.minus.com/iyg78HH0HO5qh.png]

  
  
  Might have a similar greenish thing for Nvidia, I dunno.
  
  Right click it and look around until you find settings like antialiasing and stuff.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-06 02:34
  I don't know what that is, and I don't have any video card.
• sylfaen wrote on 2012-08-06 04:36
  No video card..?
  
  Can you go into the command prompt and enter "dxdiag" ?
  Check the Display tab and you could perhaps do a little googling around for driver updates.
  Of course, if you prefer, you could click "Save All Information..." and paste the contents of the Display Devices section.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-06 06:27
  [Image: http://i.imgur.com/ecjul.jpg]
• sylfaen wrote on 2012-08-07 08:13
  ..A screenshot works too. Derp.
  
  Anyway.. a 2008 driver!
  
  Before we do anything else, try updating and then looking at YouTube again.
  
  Notice: As usual, be sure to have backups and everything when working with system files.
  
  Recommended
  Automated driver update here: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics
  [SIZE="1"]*Requires ActiveX/Java.[/SIZE]
  
  ---
  
  Assuming you're using Windows 7, here's the direct link to an update that should be for you:
  http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18223&lang=eng&OSVersion=%0A&DownloadType=Drivers
  
  If you're actually Windows Vista, here:
  http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=16312&lang=eng&OSVersion=%0A&DownloadType=Drivers
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-07 08:43
  I can't update it, at all.
  
  A customized computer manufacturer driver is installed on your computer. The Intel Driver Update Utility is not able to update the driver. Installing a generic Intel driver instead of the customized computer manufacturer driver may cause technical issues. Contact your computer manufacturer for the latest driver for your computer.
• sylfaen wrote on 2012-08-07 11:35
  At all? Even your computer manufacturer's website doesn't give you anything?
  (Who's your computer manufacturer?)
  
  Well in the meantime.. did you try the following:
  

  
  
  • [SIZE="1"][IF APPLICABLE][/SIZE] Leaving the HTML5 trial for YouTube?
    (It's possible that you may have joined the trial in the past?)
    
  • Reinstalling Flash?
    
  • Looking at other things involving Flash?
    ( e.g. vimeo | CollegeHumor | A Random 'This is Sparta' Flash Loop I Found on Google )
    
  • Using another browser?
    

  
  
  Edit: Oh. And is Flash the only one experiencing problems?
  Does anything else appear to shake?
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-08 02:36
  It's only flash, I never joined that youtube trial, and I have absolutely no idea who made this PoS computer.
• sylfaen wrote on 2012-08-08 08:37
  Since Flash is not up to par, did you try reinstalling Flash like I suggested?
  If that didn't work, you can try joining the HTML5 trial to have some videos not use Flash player as a temporary workaround while we get to the bottom of this.
  
  As for your computer manufacturer, you can easily find that by right-clicking Computer in your Start menu and selecting Properties in the resulting context menu.
  (Looking at the main tab of dxdiag.exe also works.)
  
  Also, noticing that this has all started about four days ago,
  do you recall making any system changes (such as installations/updates) before posting this thread?
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-08 10:09
  Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Company
  
  The only thing I can think of that would cause it is that Goggles thing someone posted a few days ago, it made images on pages shake like that, and I never used it with videos but it probably would've too.
• sylfaen wrote on 2012-08-08 11:49
  (Whaa- HP? But the HP I'm using to try to solve your problem is working wonders for me. D: )
  
  *ahrm*
  GRAPHICS UPDATE FOR WINDOWS 7!!
  ...OR VISTA!!
  
  However, I am sure you're aware of the implications this has on your computer's age. If even images shake, it just seems that your graphics simply cannot keep up with what's going on the screen.
  
  When browsing.. let us say.. a webpage full of animated images, does the shaking occur?
  Or.. perchance, does the shaking evolve into the screen seemingly updating in waves as you scroll down the page?
  I would like you to test that on the following tumblr page after updating:
  http://funny-gifs-4-u.tumblr.com/
  And here's the goggles to see if you can replicate what happened the other day.
  
  Whenever a video shakes next time on YouTube, see if you can rid yourself of the problem by refreshing the video (Not with F5 but by pressing Ctrl + F5*).
  [SIZE="1"]*This key combination should force your browser abandon all cached content and re-retrieve them from the server.
  If the page doesn't seem to load at a slower rate, manually clear your cache via Ctrl + Shift + Del[/SIZE]
  If that doesn't work, see if the shaking stops by lowering the quality of the view you're watching, if possible.
  
  And according to your profile, you appear to be "Actively Playing" Mabinogi.
  How has that been going for you?
  
  P.S. The Goggles thing is quite a bit amusing.
  P.P.S. I'm making assumptions on your video card performance based on your uploaded Mabinogi videos on your YouTube account.
  P.P.P.S. All actions mentioned here on this thread by me (aside from attempting to update video card drivers) are expected to be completely safe to perform and (if performed) are performed at a risk taken by you. I claim no responsibility for any system damage/data loss any said actions may cause. It has been noted in a previous post that you should backup data before attempting to modify system files.
• Xemnas wrote on 2012-08-10 06:06
  Still can't update my drivers at all.