Strange colors/blue-fringed mouse pointer on full-screen YouTube when f.lux is active

herf

What we're seeing is this is due to the integrated card from Intel, so:

Some people may be able to fix this by locking the discrete card (via http://gfx.io) and using that for video.

We are noticing that if a video is re-encoded with Quicktime the problem does not appear, but Youtube and Netflix appear to have "out of gamut" video that presents this overflow.

For everyone with a single Intel card, we may be able to do a workaround by drawing a tiny transparent icon over the corner and preventing full hardware acceleration, but I avoid hacks like this until everything else fails!

theoboyd

Happening on MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
using Intel HD Graphics 5300 1536 MB

Since it only has a single Intel card, would you be able to provide a workaround for people like me?

Thanks for making f.lux!

lorna

Is anyone still seeing this on 10.11? Our test machine is showing that it has improved the problem considerably (sometimes there is still a strange blue glow).

Auty

@lorna I still see the same blue glow and its still quite distracting.

seajay

@lorna Definitely not fixed in newest released update. Also, is there a way to update from within flux or do we have to check for new updates periodically, then download and replace the old version?

lorna

@seajay We have autoupdates but we only push them when we know they are ready to go, so the download link at justgetflux.com will always be up to date. So 36.4 is the most updated one, but it hasn't had any change to the video (this is all on Intel). So if you've updated to OS X 10.11 you may see some improvements.

seajay

@lorna got it. well, I'm on OSX 10.11.1 and flux 36.4 and am not seeing any improvements. :(

lorna

OK good to know, thank you! They fixed the awful bug that was in darkroom and basically couldn't reproduce the other bug with blue everywhere - there was an improvement on my Macbook Air but it wasn't fully gone. Is there any specific content you can send us (ok to send me a chat) that it always happens on?

seajay

@lorna It always happens on this YouTube video. (sfw) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqxbbiuqvag

seajay

@lorna oh wait I guess I'm referring to the artifacting and not the blue mouse. I don't notice the blue mouse problem here on this video. should I move my video suggestion thing to another thread that's more about artifacting?

lorna

No, this is fine for the artifacting trouble. Thanks for the video! (I'm not sure Apple would love having us submit this as the example ha!)

seajay

@lorna Hahaha yeah, it's just one that I was watching for a research paper and kept getting the artifacting problems.

seajay

@lorna okay yeah so this video every time gives artifacting as well as the blue mouse bug.

net

This is quite frustrating. I prefer Safari because of the interface and how efficient it seems to be; watching a video in Chrome or Firefox uses up about 70% CPU whereas it is barely noticeable in Safari.

Flash-based videos are fine but Youtube Center no longer lets me force the player type so I'm basically stuck using a non-preferred browser if I still want to use flux.

First-world problems I know but still frustrating.

dsquareddan

updated to El Capitan 10.11.1, the issue still persists. Guess I'll be disabling f.lux when I need to watch fullscreen videos at nighttime. sigh

bash

@dsquareddan I am also doing the same. But it is getting tedious to always do so, when I watch a series of tutorials in a row. Any luck fixing this?

Nirvanes

The same issue I reported and someone did too in another topic.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) 2,6 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Intel Iris 1536 MB
OSX El Capitan 10.11.1 (beta)

This only happens with Safari. I watch videos in youtube in nightime with Chrome and it's ok. But already happen to me while watching Netflix through a new mac app (beta) called Smartflix.

Ladysman217

@herf Is there any chance that you could release the transparent icon workaround on the forums until the driver is fixed? I'd much rather lose some battery life than be unable to watch videos in fullscreen. I'm using an early 2014 MacBook Air so the Intel HD Graphics 5000 is my only video card.

Ratiofarming

I also have the issue on all hardware accelerated video.
I am using Safari Version 9.0.1 (11601.2.7.2) on OSX 10.11.1
Computer is a mid-2013 MacBook Air with HD5000.

I've had this for a really long time now, I think forcing the hardware acceleration off is necessary until there is a "good" fix for it. As soon as I move the mouse or exit fullscreen, everything is normal. But I can't or rather don't want to constantly keep moving the mouse through videos or streams (It happens on live streams, too - twitch.tv for example)

ghost27

this issue is not happen in chrome!