HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull

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HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Seth Parker on Mar 21, 2011 at 3:20:31 pm

I've implemented a video background in my site using the HTML5 video tag. The video itself is something I whipped up in After Effects: a white background with shifting colored elements over top. In IE9, the video doesn't show (something to do with the z-index I've been told. Not too worried about it). In Firefox, the video plays perfectly. But in Chrome, the video plays, but everything is dull. The nice, crisp white in my video's background is reduced to a sad grey.

Has anyone else experienced this issue with HTML5 video in Chrome? Does anyone know what causes it or if there's a way around it?

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Mike Smith on Mar 21, 2011 at 11:22:51 pm

What format is the video ...? Does it have a colour profile attached ..?

http://www.tested.com/news/google-chrome-drops-h264-to-support-open-source-...

http://google-chrome-browser.com/tags/html5

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Googles-...

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Seth Parker on Mar 22, 2011 at 3:36:31 am

I've tried both an ogv and a webm video, though I think it's defaulting to webm in Chrome. I heard from a friend earlier today that the webkit media engine that Chrome uses has a default light grey background, but I can find no CSS or styling code that seems to affect it.

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Mike Smith on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:06:06 pm

So does the WebM file look different on playback from what you encoded and uploaded ? Or does customising the Chrome video player seem like the answer ...? http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4baa96e91b2088c9&hl...

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Seth Parker on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:10:09 pm

The webm is grey in Chrome but white in Firefox. It does make me think that the html5 video player needs to be adjusted through CSS but none of the style elements I'm finding are adjusting the area that is "behind" the video.

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Seth Parker on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:23:43 pm

Ahh nevermind. This seems to be a bug in webkit/chrome: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=73234&q=html5%20video%20...

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Mike Smith on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:24:25 pm

Yes looks like you've hit a bug. Let's hope they fix soon.

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by David Stannard on Apr 8, 2011 at 10:48:36 am

Hi Mike,

I am having the same problem.

Is it confirmed as a bug?

Thanks,
Dave.

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Re: HTML5 Video in Chrome is Dull
by Mike Smith on Mar 22, 2011 at 8:23:01 pm

Not sure I understand .. can you see what's behind the video (transparent video) and is that affecting video colour ...?

Have you been experimenting with colour management in FF and Chrome ?

http://klyment.com/serendipity/archives/386-2010.05.17-Activating-Colour-Ma...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7yN1PtYwX10J:http://ww...

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