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Youtube video playback colors are overstaturated or shifted

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Uploaded a video to Youtube. Playback colors are good in Safari and Chrome - they match original source file that was uploaded. Firefox youtube playback shifts skintones towards red and over-saturates colors. 2017 Macbook Pro w AMD 560 Radeon 4GB. Fix?

Uploaded a video to Youtube. Playback colors are good in Safari and Chrome - they match original source file that was uploaded. Firefox youtube playback shifts skintones towards red and over-saturates colors. 2017 Macbook Pro w AMD 560 Radeon 4GB. Fix?

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Screenshot of the difference?

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Screenshots - you can Safari, Chrome and the original exported file are consistent. Firefox - oversaturates and skews towards red skin tones on playback in Youtube.

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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Close and restart Firefox after modifying the setting to make the change effective.

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I tried the "hardware acceleration" setting to no avail.

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Try to disable color management to test if it is caused by a problem with color management. You can set the gfx.color_management.mode pref to 0 on the about:config page to disable Color Management.

  • gfx.color_management.mode = 0

You need to close and restart Firefox to make the change effective.

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Tried that already - unfortunately no change. Also tried a webgl property change I saw somewhere else on the fourm. Some say to download new AMD video drivers, but this is MacOS, so no option there.