Videos not working in chrome

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I installed windowblinds 10 a couple days ago and I'm realizing now that any youtube videos that are embeded on a site other than youtube.com will only play half a second then stop and buffer forever. The same thing happens when trying to watch anything on instagram. I'm using chrome and the problem goes away when I go back to the default windows 10 skin.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

That is odd as WindowBlinds should have no influence on that.

Usually Youtube being silly is due to lack of HD space on drive C.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 1

Anyone else experiencing this
End of Neil's quote

Not here. Just tried a few videos with no problem using Chrome.

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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes I've noticed videos doesn't work on my chrome either. Using latest vers to date.

Sometimes flash doesn't work at all either. Just black and nothing happens.

 

Windows 10 x64 pro WB 10.0.4

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

To everyone concerned, does this problem occur with all Windowblinds skins or only certain ones? Does anyone with Windows 7 or 8/8.1 notice this issue occurring?

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting LightStar, reply 5

To everyone concerned, does this problem occur with all Windowblinds skins oronly certain ones?
End of LightStar's quote

 

Yep, just tried a bunch and the videos will only work with the default theme. I also have windows 10 pro 64x

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting maxwellbloz, reply 6


Quoting LightStar,
reply 5

To everyone concerned, does this problem occur with all Windowblinds skins oronly certain ones?



 

Yep, just tried a bunch and the videos will only work with the default theme. I also have windows 10 pro 64x

End of maxwellbloz's quote

 

OK, just wanted to make sure. This would definitely be a Windowblinds issue then, so someone experiencing the issue should email support@stardock.com about it.

Admin:   Use https://esupport.stardock.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit to contact support.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Not a problem here.

YouTube video embedded on a forum, Chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 plays all the way through.

Windows IP 14316

Windows Blinds beta / 'Old N Style' theme

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Same happening here. Youtube video crashing on start and endless buffering on  Chrome Version 49.0.2623.112 m on Windows 10 64bit with windowblinds loaded. Not a problem with Internet Explorer and everything is fine after unloading windowblinds. Tried stable version of windowblinds 10 and beta. Same problem on both.

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting fictitiousfellow, reply 10

Try with Chrome Hardware Acceleration disabled.
End of fictitiousfellow's quote

Its an issue with Chrome's previous version and with the update. With it enabled I get black pages on yahoo. Disabling it solved the problem and vids on youtube always played without any issues.  

Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

I have been unable to reproduce this here.

What graphics cards do people have?

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

i use Nvidia GTX 780 TI

Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top

Unfortunately the fix of turning off the hardware acceleration worked in making the youtube videos loadable in chrome, but the performance hit to video quality was too great on my R9280. Youtube video became choppy. I had to add chrome as a per app exclusion to windowblinds to fix the problem for now until the bug is found.