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Sep 23, 2016 6:14 AM in response to plantbasedby grpires,I think I'm having the same issue! I'm not sure what is the proper word for what is happening, but my "flicker" happens every minute or so when I'm watching Netflix full-screen. For a very brief moment (around 1 second) the image kind of duplicates and moves to the right very quickly. This didn't happen on El Capitan for me.
Some stats:
- Macbook Pro MF839 (13-inch, retina, early 2015, 128GB SSD)
- MacOS Sierra
Here are some tests I worked on:
- I've performed a Safe Boot and also a PRAM Reset - no improvements.
- This issue happens on both Safari and Chrome, so I think it is not browser related. Probably some rendering issue with the video card.
- If I change the display mode to scaled and choose all the options but the default one, the flickering stops (so it only happens when it "feels like 1280x800").
- If while I'm watching Netflix I move the mouse pointer to the top of the screen (showing the menu bar) and keep it there, the flickering stops.
@plantbased: could you share your settings just so we know if we have the same problem, or if other people can help us?
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Sep 23, 2016 2:01 PM in response to grpiresby plantbased,Hi there,
I have a MBP 13-inch, retina display, early 2015, 128GB SSD with MacOS Sierra.
Flickering stops as soon as I move the mouse pointer to the top and the menu bar is shown. But apart from this I haven't figured out another way to solve the problem.
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Sep 23, 2016 4:06 PM in response to plantbasedby grpires,Fantastic, that means we have the same MBP.
I've made some research during the day, and I come with a quick list of things to try. Here are the things I did that didn't work:
- Full Safari clear (https://discussions.apple.com/message/30688224#30688224)
- Change user agent (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6620835?tstart=0)
- Show scrollbars only when scrolling (System Preferences > General) (https://discussions.apple.com/message/29557720#29557720)
- Run Safari in new user
However, I did one thing that made the playback seem normal:
- Use Firefox
Could you try running Netflix on Firefox and see if it behaves correctly? What happens on Chrome? I believe the issue is with some sort of rendering technique only Chrome and Safari use.
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Sep 24, 2016 11:48 AM in response to plantbasedby gabrillo,I'm having the exact same issue, early 2015 13" retina macbook pro, only the ssd differs (mine is the 512G one) but I guess it's not relevant
Will try the resolution workaround and update, thank you for your suggestions!
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Sep 24, 2016 6:58 PM in response to gabrilloby grpires,Great, it's probably related to retina macbooks in general... I hope we can find a solution. Let me know if Firefox works well for you.
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Sep 28, 2016 10:44 AM in response to mathisiakby plantbased,Same here no problems with Firefox.
Has anyone solved the issue with Safari?
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Sep 28, 2016 2:27 PM in response to grpiresby gabrillo,No problems with Firefox for me too, seems limited to Safari and Chrome
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Sep 28, 2016 4:10 PM in response to gabrilloby grpires,The issue still happens here, this is really frustrating
I'm checking threads daily to find other people who face this issue. There was one guy here (Random screen flickering while watching videos.) who described an issue, but apparently it got solved. I think it was a different problem than ours.
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Oct 1, 2016 6:30 AM in response to plantbasedby rfr.ferreira,Same problem here. It's like the movie had a bad/ruined frame every 1 or 2 minutes for me.
MBP 13 Early 2015
i5 2.7
16Gb Ram
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Oct 4, 2016 7:51 AM in response to plantbasedby plasticdoughnut,Same issue here, same computer - MBP Retina 13" early 2015 256GB, 2,7GHz i5 and 8 GB RAM. So far I've only noticed this when playing Netflix fullscreen on Chrome.
At first I freaked out thinking I somehow managed to damage my screen, but it really only happens when watching Netflix, which is really annoying.
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Oct 5, 2016 11:24 AM in response to plantbasedby ralucafromseattle,I have the same problem, started immediately after the update. It happens only when playing Netflix, randomly. I am using Chrome. Will try Firefox.