How to fix horizontal lines on YouTube video on Google Chrome (No issue on Firefox)

Question

So i'm facing this strange issue when watching YouTube videos on Google Chrome. There appear some horizontal lines when you hover the cursor on video as shown in screenshot. I have checked on Firefox but there is no such issue there. Any way to solve this?

Solution 1

If you are using 20.04, Disabling the 'Use hardware acceleration when available' option works for me. Open a new tab and type the following chrome://settings/?search=hardware

Turn-off the option Use hardware acceleration when available and relaunch the browser. Hope this helps

Solution 2

Set page zoom to 90% and those lines will dissapear, but this only work when you watch video in normal and full screen mode. Hope it will be helpul :D

Comments

[kortewegdevries]

Try tinkering with hardware acceleration in settings or start with a brand new profile with default settings/no addons or extensions and see if it happens there.

[Malik Bilal]

@kortewegdevries So i have disable Use hardware acceleration when available and it seems to be fixed. Can you give some thoughts about this option. Is it okay to keep this option disable? On Windows i had kept this option enable by default.

[kortewegdevries]

Probably some gpu incompatibility on linux. If you want to use HA, it's already in firefox 80 for Xorg (the option is meant to use gpu processing power to increase playback quality etc.)

[Malik Bilal]

It's integrated graphics Intel® HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) By the way i also think that this laptop is not much compatible with Linux. Thank you very much for your help though.

[kortewegdevries]

It's old try some of these if it helps wiki.ubuntu.com/IntelQuickSyncVideo I haven't used Intel's integrated graphics, sorry.

[Admin]

There are already 2 answers with this advice, how is your answer different?