Massive amount of artefacts in dark scenes

[Marco2G 4]

Hi everyone

After I learned that Firefox needs to be strangled with barbed wire, I switched to Brave for my viewing pleasures.

Now I noticed while watching The Blacklist that dark scenes or shadows are heavily artifacted, as if one was watching 144p.

I watched the file, over the network, in VLC and there seemed to be no artifacting. I tried to replace the file with one from the web, no difference. I then tried it in Firefox but that damn thing won't even let me skip ahead to another point in the video anymore, it's that bad.

I had a look at the logs. There is no transcode logfile. Is this just the nature of the beast? The moment you watch in a webbrowser, quality goes down the crapper?

I just updated to 4.9.3 after uploading the log file, just to be sure it wasn't that... I wanna say it looks a bit better now but I think that's my bias and not actually true.

 

embyserver.txt embyserver (1).txt

[visproduction 315]

Suspect this issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p7vJvzIJSE

[Marco2G 4]

OpenH264 Plugin IS enabled on my firefox. 

But again, firefox is dead to me. Brave plays the files, the quality is just garbage and I want to know if that is something I have to live with in all browsers.

[Marco2G 4]

By the way, I just checked. I see no artifacts on Emby for Android. Granted, it's a small screen and probably harder to see, but it's SO obvious on the computer screen, I'm pretty sure it would be visible on mobile as well. It isn't.

[Marco2G 4]

Okay, it's a d'uh moment. 

After an Update of both firefox and Brave, the issue is gone in Brave. Still can't tell with Firefox as that is still stuttery and I can't skip inside the video.

 

But yeah. Brave was buggy and now it isn't it seems.